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Comment on Bandage allergy by Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:20 +0000

Same here. A few years ago in university I fell while playing football and sprained my wrist. Had it bandaged up with elastoplast adhesive tape and after a week I couldn’t handle the itching any more. When it was removed I had very neat, raised red lines the width of the tape around my wrist. Very sore, looked like burns and had also started to leak puss in a few places. No more elastoplast for me!!!

Comment on Kidisms by J.

J. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:42:37 +0000

My parents personal favorite line from when I was a “little guy”

after my first day of kindergarten and the introduction to the school lunch room I curiously asked my Mom, “Mommie do all lunch ladies have mustaches?”

Comment on Kidisms by Jes

Jes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:29:50 +0000

Too cute! I can’t wait til my daughter starts to speak and starts coming up with these!

Comment on Bandage allergy by Laurette

Laurette — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:32:26 +0000

Hi, My boyfriend had a knee operation and we used a Nexcare bandaid atone place on the operation site. Well when he removed the staples, wow, what a mess, the skin literally ripped off leaving an ugly wound. I just now told him about this site and what I discovered. As I write this, he is going over to his medicine cabinet to throw away the whole box of brand new bandaids.

Comment on My brain is not tired! by Vincent @ The Dad Jam

Vincent @ The Dad Jam — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:24:40 +0000

Great post and story. Glad to hear everything is still going okay and that you go through it.
I guess sometimes you never know with kids – things can change so suddenly with no explanation at all.
About a year ago we went through getting our son to fall asleep on his own, and it is still going fine, but even now we still have the odd night when he wants us to stay with him while he falls asleep.

Comment on Bandage allergy by Chris236

Chris236 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:02:14 +0000

So I am not the only one with this annoying allergy afterall. I developed an allergy to elastoplast about 20 years ago, before that I was fine with them. Last week I donated blood and by the time they took off the plaster holding the needle the rash had started. When the allergy first started I could used 3M micropore tape, but now if I need a plaster I just put on some paper towel held on with electricians tape which does not affect my skin. Recently I have been having a very bad reaction to insect bites with big swelling and very itchy skin and I wonder if it is connected.

Comment on My brain is not tired! by Nick5064

Nick5064 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:26:50 +0000

My brother and sis in law have just had their second and only moved out their 1st from their room to his about 2 months ago(he’s 2). So its been a bit of an adjustment, especially to get the eldest to sleep.

After a rough night during which no one had slept and at about 3.30 am , my brother had had enough and ORDERED his eldest to get in bed and sleep. Worked like a charm, got in and slept till 6.30, like an angel.

Sometimes you just have to make the decision for them.

Comment on Bandage allergy by Nick5064

Nick5064 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:43:31 +0000

Bumped my shin in gym, used red elastoplast tape (never been allergic), and the wound just got bigger in the direction of the plaster with the skin coming off, I thought because of infection. Switched (by chance) to micropore (paper type plaster), got the wound stabilised and went back to elastoplast (also by chance). Same day my leg swelled up, bright red, very hot, blisters etc. Allergex (Chlorpheniramine maleate) and celestamine caused the blisters to swell and weep and each blister forms a new wound. Dr first thought major infection, minor allergy, so major antibiotic and celestamine. Also had nurse put other clear type plaster over wounds. Just more blisters. Rash spread fast to other body parts. http://www.allergysa.org/journals/nov2004/abc_of_allergology.pdf says that oral antihistamines (celestamine & allergex) don’t help, you need steriod/cortisone creams or in worst case (mine!) oral steriod/cortisone. So now I’ve a 120 prednisone(cortisone) tablets to take over 18 days. But looking much better.

Comment on Bandage allergy by Adrianne

Adrianne — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:11:33 +0000

Glad to find this discussion! I had not had a problem with band-aids until about 15 years ago. This was about the same time I ate a ‘camouflage’ melon that’s supposed to be a cross between a honeydew and a canteloupe. I had noticed that honeydew melons made my throat swell a bit and had quit eating them, but canteloupe didn’t make a reaction. I ate the camouflage melon and immediately almost couldn’t breathe at all. I took 2 actifed at once and it took about 3 hours to get to a point where I wasn’t concerned.

After that I noticed that Bandaids on any part of my body other than fingers and toes caused red welts and blisters that made the skin wrinkle up, turn brown, then scar for about a year. Soon, paper tape did the same thing, so I went to use Tegaderm.

The Tegaderm has been fine until last week. I had an iodine test and they used a Tegaderm dressing. Within 4 hours I was burning. I took it off, and had the familiar red welts. No blisters were present, but here it is a week later and the skin has already changed texture, turned brownish and is now starting to form the wrinkling before scarring.

I now have no choice of any adhesive at all.

I hope your baby does not have the same problems develop.

Comment on My brain is not tired! by sleepnosleep

sleepnosleep — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:47:54 +0000

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