I really need some advice. I have not posted here in awhile, but the lady I take care of has started scratching her face until she is getting sores. I have tried everything, benadrly cream, neosporin, face creams, ect. She has dementia and no matter how many times a day she is reminded to stop, she continues.
I have major concerns about this , as she is cognizant on many levels about some things. Not this, she is self-mutilating. I have expressed my concerns to the family and am told to continue to remind her to stop. It is not working!!!! Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated..
So for the scratching senior, think of it this way.
Crab Apple
"This is the remedy of cleansing. For those who feel as if they have something not quite clean about themselves. Often it is something of apparently little importance: in others there may be more serious disease which is almost disregarded compared to the one thing on which they concentrate. In both types they are anxious to be free from the one particular thing which is greatest in their minds and which seems so essential to them that it should be cured. They become despondent if treatment fails. Being a cleanser, this remedy purifies wounds if the patient has reason to believe that some poison has entered which must be drawn out." - Dr. Edward Bach
The homeopathy remedies I keep handy are one for leg cramps (both pills and lotion), Arnica Montana pills and lotion for those bruises seniors always seem to get (also Vitamin K cream...works wonders...and Alpha Lipoic Acid pills and lotion). You CAN get rid of those arm bruises and mostly stop them from occurring. Sure there will be remedies for scratching stuff, but there are hundreds and hundreds of those.
~Rose
You can try benedryl tablets, but make sure there isn't a drug contradiction, and expect her to fall asleep.