Re: STAPH INFECTION/ABCESS should we continue band? HELP!

[Guest guest]

brachy can improve on its own, but you have no way to know if it will for you.

As your child spends less time on her head it will round somewhat in the back.

However it generally will grow all over, so the proportion may not change (extra

width and/or height remain). My daughter hasn't really improved since her

graduation, although she's grown a lot. On the other hand I have seen posts

about babies with post band improvement. Not that many parents on this group

stay if they decide not to band, so I don't know how much improvement people get

without banding. However there is another group for " Older plagio "

(olderplag I think). You might post a question about brachy there.

People do alternative treatments too such as cranial sacral therapy or seeing an

osteopath. However I admit to being skeptical of these, and as far as I know

there aren't good studies to say they work. There are parents who think they

help, but I generally would only recommend trying them in addition to banding if

possible.

-christine

sydney, 4 yrs, starband grad

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> > My baby got heat rash/yeast infection on 3rd day with band that turned into

a staph infection on back of head -- an abcess the size of a golf ball.

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> > fortunately we caught infection in time and got antiB's into her BUT staph

infection (partic on head) could be very dangerous.

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> > Should we continue with band? Husband says " no way risk not worth it " I

don't want her to be stuck with wide head (she has brach -- 92%)

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> > Our Peds are very anti-helmet and said to " throw it away. "

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> > What do you think?

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> > PS> it is a DOC band.

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