[tri-med] Re: Hurtin' fingers

Tess chews on her fingers too. In the daytime, we just try to keep watching 
and say "fingers out", and pull her fingers away from her mouth. She made 
them really quite sore at first, but now at night time we gently wrap her 
hands in a soft stretchy bandage and then put a sock over the top (you 
could use a mit). This prevents her chewing on them while in bed, and 
allows them to heal and dry out. It also stops her from pulling at the 
BIPAP. Ian uses Paw paw cream on the affected fingers before wrapping them. 
Now although she still has the calluses, they are not in the previous bad 
state. If she's having "quiet time", we actually give her a dummy to suck 
on, and she seems happy with this, and it saves the fingers. I know, I 
know, she eight years old and it isn't appropriate, but it saves the 
fingers so..... I don't know so tell me if I'm wrong, doesn't hydrogen 
peroxide sting like heck?

At 04:19 PM 30/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Claire has been biting her fingers... these darn new teeth are taking some
>getting used to.
>She still isn't holding toys for teething and she is used to putting her
>hands in her mouth to soothe herself... and you know how sharp those teeth
>are!
>  Right now, we've put socks on herhands (doubled them up) to cut the 'blow'
>of the biting... her thumb sucking is also creating problems with her hands
>getting torn up esp between thumb and index finger. The sock has been a bit
>of a deterance (sp?), and I'm hoping to be able to take them off soon. After
>bath time, I put hydrogen peroxide on her hand to clean them up, then the
>sock goes back on... I was using gentian violet, but everything got so
>purple (and I mean everything).
>  Any quick and easy (aka painless) solutions would be helpful.
>  Debbie, mom to Claire (t18 2yo)
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