How to help baby with chronic pain?
Hey!
I just got finished babysitting two toddlers at my mom's polo game. Both are perfect and very sweet, and an easy watch. The only issue however is that one of the two has really bad eczema. I just realized today (her mom later confirmed it when I asked) that she was suffering from it, its my second time watching the both of them. She's only 1½ years old, so they can't do patch testing on her to try and get to the bottom of it. Its unfortunately everywhere and she had a bit of an itching fit today and there wasn't much I could do to help her. She had some medicated cream her mom brought with her and I used it once (it helped for about 30 minutes), but she never told me to use it or anything (she thanked me for using it though, so i guess there's that as an option next time). She has rashes all over her little body and wouldn't stop itching at them... I almost cried when I was trying to get her to stop itching; it was so hard to watch (i also grew up with chronic pain in the mouth, so i really do empathize with her... it broke my heart 😭💔)
Does anyone have any tips on what I might do to distract/help her with the pain? She likes Mrs. Rachel, and that seemed to work and prevented her from scratching, but is there any tips on what I could do? And in the future, not just for her, but I work with toddlers at my church and some of them likely have a similar situation; what could I do to distract them from chronic pain?
Thank you so much for any tips! They're all really appreciated.