Bandage regime!

Just thought I would show a selection of pictures and things that are involved when it comes to having to bandage my daughter with her severe eczema. This use to take up to and over an hour especially when I was doing all four limbs. Yesterday I only did one arm and one leg.

The selection of things needed to carry out the work. Dermol cream (the only moisturiser that works for her! ) normally i put steroid cream on as well but didn't yesterday as I forgot! Viscopaste bandages or as they are known in the house, "cheesy" bandages. Don't ask but my daughter came up with it so we let her keep the name! a normal bandage for over the top of the cheesy one, micropore tape, scissors to cut up the viscopaste and normal bandage and last but not least green or blue line tubifast bandages depending on where you are working on! blue for legs, green for arms.

So first the cheesy bandage! this is a tricky one and you can't do anything else whilst working with it as you get covered in paste! with these ( which are normally used for leg ulcers!) you have to zig zag back and forth over the bandage first one way then the other. So it doesn't fall down apparently! Never just wrapped it round so I don't know if it does! 

This is with the normal bandage over the top, trying to make sure that she can still bend her arm afterwards! 

 With the tubifast bandage over the top! can't see the green line here but this is all done! ( the picture above)


 The one on the right is of her leg.

So going off the picture i posted previous of the back of her leg, this is the result after two hours! ignore the little white bits it's just the residue from the viscopaste!

Nothing to do with the above pictures but this is my poor babies neck yesterday, covered in eczema and little spots that i think we have been told before is the start of an infection. It did look better after being in the pool however!