[wombatclay]

Heyla all!

So 2yo dd banged her chin on the palyground last week and scraped it up pretty good. An ice pack, some ointment, and it looked fine. However, she has started to pick at it and now it is red, swollen, and oozy much of the time.

I'm not looking for health/healing advice but "how do you convince a toddler not to pick at a scab?" ideas.

Right now we try to redirect her attention and her hands, but she is pretty determined to play with her "boo boo" and it's really slowing down healing! Every morning it looks pretty good and by evening...well...

thanks!

 

[Attached Mama]

a very special, pretty, cute character band-aid maybe????

show her in the AM in the mirror how it is getting all better - and then in the evening how it is getting worse, and then be on her about it all day constantly distracting or refocusing her hands.

Good luck!

 

[Pepperdove]

I'm gonna say glittery bandaids.

 

[wombatclay]

Hmmmm....since it's on her chin I didn't think of bandaids but that could work! Or at least distract her a little maybe.

Any other tried and true solutions? When she skins her knees we put her in pants, but that wont work for her chin!

 

[eepster]

The reason she is picking it maybe itching so if you stop the itch you stop the picking.

Or, you could put her in mittens.

Finally, a helmet with a chin strap like this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I1Z23G/...G&linkCode=asn.