Really really bad cracked hands

[TORino]

Does anyone else have this?

I had it with my daughter too I remember - it’s worse this time round, my knuckles are bleeding

Is it a postnatal symptom? Or just a product of washing hands fifty billion times a day? All of my nice hand creams arent touching it either

 

[Princess81]

It’s the washing and the cold- unlikely to be hormonal. You can get a product called “gloves in a bottle” from amazon, literally saved my hands as i obvs wash them seventy billion times a day. X

 

[Shepherdess]

my husband gets horrendous cracked hands with working outside. he uses cracked heel cream

 

[TORino]

Thanks both.. I'll try anything. They are really sore

 

[candymycandy]

Torino I massively recommend okeefe’s cream- you can get it on amazon. My dad had always had cracked hands (to the point of bleeding, from over washing and working outside), had tried everything over the years from the doctors and nothing worked. Then a couple of years ago I got him this to try after reading good review and he saw a vast improvement overnight. It’s also done the trick on my husband’s hands.

You should try and just use anti bac gel maybe on occasion? I mean unless of course there’s been a poonami!! x

 

[CARNAT22]

I get dermatitis on my hands (have psoriasis as well. My skin is awful)

Hand washing in neonatal is just insane. You wash and sanatise when you go in to ward and again when you go into your babies nursery..... each and every time you come in and out [so everytime I go to loo or expressing room or out for food I have to do this] you also have to handwash and sanatise every time you feed / change a nappy when in the nursery. My skin looks reptilian.

I have been surveying the nurses to find out what handcream works best O'Keefes is mentioned a lot.

X

 

[Rachel82]

Yes!!! I have had really dry hands since my DD was born 8 months ago. I put it down to all the extra hand washing. I use Milton sterilising fluid too which I think is very drying!