Bad Skin

Lil Isaac has really bad skin. It first turned bad when he was admitted to kkh. Then his skin became really dry and the doctors cannot tell if it was due to the antibiotic, prolong exposure to aircon or generally bad skin. We were given moisturizer and we had been using it faithfully. His skin appears less dry after he was discharged.

Then, he developed baby acne all over his face, particularly his cheek and cradle cap on his eyebrow. Instead of smooth baby face, his face was flaky and rough. -.o"

When the acne cleared, cradle cap appeared on his forehead and 3/4 of his head. It is clearing up very slowly. But his face looks better now.

Then, raw skin appeared behind his ears and it gave off a foul smelling discharge. The skin around his neck also became raw. We tried to clean as often as possible and keep those areas dry. Still, the situation doesn't seem to be improving. The neck area worsen as he put on weight and developed double neck. Boohoo. We have to pry open his neck area to do cleaning.

Just a few days ago, we found his left ear giving out a foul discharge. We feared ear infection but the discharge doesn't seem to come out from within the ear. We tried to clean and keep the ear dry and the situation seems to improve until yday.

Yday, there was so much smelly discharge from his right ear. -.o" We were worried that it is really ear infection that we brought him to the GP. But I half guess that it wasn't since he doesn't seem to be in much discomfort and there was no excessive crying.

We were relieved to know that it was just bad skin. Hohoho. We were given some cream to apply but were told to consult a PD soon. Lil Isaac may have eczema. Boohoo. And the raw skin at his neck are heat rashes.

We are trying our best to clean, dry and apply a whole ton of moisturizer and cream for him. His bath always take uber long. We hope that he will grow out of it. I remember Lil Shauna has not too good skin too but nothing near this. Haiz. We will be bringing him to the PD for his jab soon and can already hear the PD nagging. It will be the same PD who administered the jabs for Lil Shauna and he used to nag at us when Lil Shauna had bad skin.

Mummy Lim