Monday, November 19, 2007

you annoint my head with oil...

caleb has cradle cap. i saw it and just kept thinking that it would go away on its own. but it didn't. instead, it got worse and worse and looked more and more gross. so, i read about it on the Internet and called his doctor to see what they recommended. in the end, we did a combination of two treatments. first, we would put oil on his head (picture troy pouring olive all over caleb's bald little head while caleb is eating...). then, we used a fine-tooth comb to get a bunch of the dry scales out. finally, we washed his head really well in the bath using dandruff shampoo. the first day it was a lot better, the second day a bit more. i'm hopeful that if we keep this up, we can actually make it go away!

1 comment:

merrell said...

not to rain on your parade, but grace actually had cradle cap for a long time. i don't think we actually paid attention to it for a while, but she even had it past 1 year old . . . keep at it with your little comb! it helped us get rid of it, but i think it eventually went away on its own.