Red knuckles?

Hungry Girl is now 4 months old (where did the time go?) and still
hungry. Like her older brother she is a slim baby, but unlike him she
is a *big* slim baby. And she has girlie thunder thighs. She is 25%
percentile weight for age and 75% percentile height for age. I think
she is teething (drooling, white gums, red cheeks, red bottom, funky
poops, and chewing furiously on everything). And she has begun to get
mad about not being fed at the table so I am about to start
introducing foods, a little earlier than I had intended. But my
reason for posting is to ask about red knuckles. The outside 3
fingers on her right hand have very inflamed 3rd knuckles. Now they
are starting to look raw, with increasingly broken skin. I think they
are due to her habit of scratching everthing; she drags her knuckles
at the end of each scratch, and she is right-handed. But how to treat
them? Any ointment I put on her hand now will end up in her mouth. I
could put a sock over her arm; that would slow her down...

On Feb 3, 12:20 pm, "Pologirl" wrote:
Hungry Girl is now 4 months old (where did the time go?) and still
hungry. Like her older brother she is a slim baby, but unlike him she
is a *big* slim baby. And she has girlie thunder thighs. She is 25%
percentile weight for age and 75% percentile height for age. I think
she is teething (drooling, white gums, red cheeks, red bottom, funky
poops, and chewing furiously on everything). And she has begun to get
mad about not being fed at the table so I am about to start
introducing foods, a little earlier than I had intended. But my
reason for posting is to ask about red knuckles. The outside 3
fingers on her right hand have very inflamed 3rd knuckles. Now they
are starting to look raw, with increasingly broken skin. I think they
are due to her habit of scratching everthing; she drags her knuckles
at the end of each scratch, and she is right-handed. But how to treat
them? Any ointment I put on her hand now will end up in her mouth. I
could put a sock over her arm; that would slow her down...

Could you use an ointment that it doesn't matter if it ends up in her
mouth? I am thinking of Lansinoh, or some sort of lanolin cream. I
use it for my DD's diaper rash and it works wonders on that. It is
also pretty sticky, so more of it would stay on her hand.

Stacey