Re: rash on the neck?

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Out Lo had a bright red line on the bottom where the helmet rubbed. It depended on how he was positioning himself. When he was looking up it was rubbing on his neck. we could not get into the otho as well and it was starting to look like it was going to blister. we put on a bandaid over the spot and it went away. Do not use a waterproof bandaid though, impossible to get off. we learned the hard way. then the orto just rounded the bottom edge a little, he did not remove anything just smoothed ot out and it went away. the banaid truly took care of it for the moment though and we felt it was safe as it was on his neck. Many use moleskin? inside the helmet for areas that rub so... Good luck and I am glad to see you are having great progress, tiffany Gavin ( staband) 2 months

From: kp7523 <kris345@...>Subject: rash on the neck?Plagiocephaly Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:14 AM

Hi,My daughter has been in a hanger band for almost 2 months and we've seen pretty good correction so far (was a 9mm assymmetry btwn ears and it's now 5mm; her cephalic index went from 89% to 83%). She's had a few pesky red spots from time and time and we've gone for adjustments that have fixed the problem each time. But about a week ago my daughter had what looked like a possible scratch or mild rash (it was very light pink and very faint) at the base of her head. We happened to have an appt the next day anyway, so I left it off overnight and then showed it to the ortho the next day. It has almost totally healed at that point, so it was hard to tell if it was irriation from the helmet or if she had somehow scratched herself in that spot. In any event, we both agreed that no adjustment was made to that spot b/c the helmet does not sit tightly in that area. Everything was fine for

another two days (no pinkness or irritation that I noticed) and then all of the sudden there was a HUGE red rash with broken skin blisters in the same spot. It was over labor day weekend so there was not much we could to but leave the helmet off and use neosporin. By this past tuesday it was totally healed and we put the helmet back on and checked a lot to see if we needed to make an appointment; but each day the spot was just fine and not irritated. So we assumed whatever it was was gone. Sadly last night at bath time I checked the spot and it's red and inflamed. so, the helmet is off again until we can get an appointment with the ortho on monday or tuesday. Of course i wish now that we had gone in last week...My question is: do kids develop these rashes (allergy??) in localized places this far into wearing the helmet? I don't think it's a fit issue -- we've been through those and this just

looks/acts different. I'm also thinking I should make an appt with our pediatrician in case it's like a fungus or something else and the helmet is just irritating it furhter, rather than causing it???sorry for the length of this post!thanks!kristine (mom to ava; 2 mos in hanger band)