Baby Aglio Olio

On August 13, 2009 · 15 Comments · In Parenting

Cradle capKai has sen­si­tive skin, just like his Papa, who was ridiculed from a young age when he declared to the Sin­ga­pore Armed Forces med­ical board that he was aller­gic to grass and to his own perspiration.

Those ain’t rosy cheeks you’re look­ing at on Kai’s cute lit­tle face. Those are dry, inflamed patches where he’s smeared his drool with his hands. We’re using up mois­tur­izer faster than you can say “Dear Kiehls, we need more baby products!”

The other thing we’ve been instructed by the pedi­a­tri­cian to do is to smear olive oil on his scalp because the poor bub’s got quite a bad case of cra­dle cap. (Haha, you said cable crap! You did! You did!)

He’s also just had his sec­ond round of the rotavirus vac­cine, so for the last four days he’s been pass­ing what the pedi­a­tri­cian describes as “loose stools”, so we’ve been chang­ing his dia­pers full of wan­ton poop more often as well.

Mois­tur­izer, olive oil and poop make for a won­drous nurs­ery smell.

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  • http://twitter.com/miyagi/status/3277419338 Ben­jamin Lee

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  • straw­ber­rymilk­mama

    hello,

    if the rash is really bad, try the lotion in physiogel’s baby range? it con­tains fish oil to help. it’s also usu­ally what the pedi­atric der­ma­tol­o­gists recommend.

    if that’s too hard to lay your hands on, you might want to con­sider sebamed baby lotion (or even face cream which is thicker and more mois­tur­iz­ing) which is great. have been using sebamed on my kid for a cou­ple of years, but on the other hand, she doesn’t really have a skin prob­lem, so i don’t know whether it would work as well for you.

    hths some­what. :)

  • straw­ber­rymilk­mama

    hello,

    if the rash is really bad, try the lotion in physiogel’s baby range? it con­tains fish oil to help. it’s also usu­ally what the pedi­atric der­ma­tol­o­gists recommend.

    if that’s too hard to lay your hands on, you might want to con­sider sebamed baby lotion (or even face cream which is thicker and more mois­tur­iz­ing) which is great. have been using sebamed on my kid for a cou­ple of years, but on the other hand, she doesn’t really have a skin prob­lem, so i don’t know whether it would work as well for you.

    hths some­what. :)

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thanks for that. We’re cur­rently using SebaMed. 2nd tube already, and we just have to keep using it as long as he keeps smear­ing drool on his face.

  • http://umami.typepad.com/umami/ umami

    If mois­ture is a prob­lem, you can try aque­ous cream. It’s pure mois­ture. Avail­able at Wat­sons or Guardian, usu­ally a generic prod­uct, very cheap (few dol­lars for a huge tub) and free of addi­tives and chem­i­cal. Works for dry irri­tated skin. Oth­er­wise I also use the QV range which is more expensive.

    An old fash­ioned rem­edy is to bathe baby in Gui­ness Stout. One can diluted in with bath­wa­ter in the baby bath-tub, seems to relieve all sorts of skin prob­lems. No harm try­ing, it worked on me (when I was a child of course) and my daugh­ter. Also good to rub on the scalp, that’s how I ended up with so much hair, apparently.

  • Karen

    I’d like to sec­ond the rec­om­men­da­tion for aque­ous cream, except that I used it for my son on his head, for the cra­dle cap. Sounds gross to put cream through hair, but I found it less messy than oil, cheap, and more effec­tive. Throw a lit­tle cot­ton cap on the head if he’s going to lie down.

  • straw­ber­rymilk­mama

    for the cra­dle cap, can just use mustela new­born sham­poo to get rid of cra­dle cap. no need to fuss with oil or cream :)

  • claris­seteagen

    Oh no…
    poor baby, it reminds me of my brother when he was born. same thing, except that he had patches as well. Yeah, mom used Sebamed too.

  • galovesongs

    My mum uses Drapo­lene for my sis and I when we were babies for any of our weird skin rashes (I have a lot of skin prob­lems since young till now).

    It’s a pink box with a baby pic­ture on the front. Quite good. Though best to ask the doc or some­thing first before using.

  • galovesongs

    You may try this cream called Drapo­lene. It comes in a pink box with a baby pic­ture in the front. Though it says it’s for nappy rash, since my sis and I were babies, my mum has been using it on us for any type of rashes or skin inflam­ma­tion, etc.

    I use it now to get rid of pim­ples. :D

  • sophiebear

    Hi Kai — my mommy used coconut oil… douse lib­er­ally and then comb out the hard bits, sham­poo out the soft ones. Smells like a curry. Works in a hurry ! Love, Alex

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thank you Alex. Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been busy with all these pub­lic­ity engage­ments — so many fans to please. It never ends. Thank you for the tip. I’ll inform Mama and Papa and they’ll go out and buy coconut oil for me. Sounds yum!

  • A-n-g-e

    Hey Mr Miyagi

    You should get your hands on the Cal­en­dula Cream by Cal­i­for­nia Baby. My son had a dry skin prob­lem too and he’s all good now. :) For the cra­dle cap, just make sure you mas­sage his head with the baby sham­poo dur­ing his baths. Should clear up nicely with­out the messi­ness of the oils.

  • A-n-g-e

    Hey Mr Miyagi

    You should get your hands on the Cal­en­dula Cream by Cal­i­for­nia Baby. My son had a dry skin prob­lem too and he’s all good now. :) For the cra­dle cap, just make sure you mas­sage his head with the baby sham­poo dur­ing his baths. Should clear up nicely with­out the messi­ness of the oils.

  • http://www.roundaboutkidsparentingforum.com/ Baby Par­ent­ing Books

    Poor baby. I hope he will be fine as he grows.

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