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They can come from 4 years old
up to approximately 10 years old.
We usually welcome up to 10 children
here at the Chalet, once a week.
This workshop lasts about 45 minutes
and I show them fun ways to put the cream,
trying to do it through the game
to show them a different technique,
a bit more playful.
With names of animals, for example.
We'll start with the face
and then we will see about the cat's whiskers,
the neck of the giraffe,
we will stick out the snails antennas,
to not forget the eyes and behind the ears.
And this is a workshop
where children are welcome
but there are also parents who must attend.
So we do an ointment workshop
but we also insist on scratching,
on the importance of patches of eczema
and why it is important to pommader.
When you put the cream in the fridge,
it gets cold, it makes us feel good immediately.
Or put ice.
Use a pouch with ice in a small piece of linen
and press where it scratches.
All we want, with your parents
is that you do not scratch yourself
until it bleeds and create crusts
that do not dry out.
After we offer them
a small diploma for “good pommadage”
to congratulate their autonomy
since it’s the goal of the workshop.
And then they are offered
a small bag with products from La Roche-Posay,
including a booklet Lipi And Kara
which brings up different questions
one can ask about the eczema,
What is eczema ? How to do a soft toilet ?
What is the importance of a clean room ?
We also talk about allergies,
it also helps to have a little discussion
with them and their parents
and at the end of the booklet
they are small images of Lipi And Kara,
with crayons where you can color a little everyday
when you scratch to see the evolution of scratching,
the evolution of hydration,
the evolution of ointment
and it allows parents to adapt treatments.
And then we offer them a great timeline
which recreates all stages of pommadage
so that at home they can do it again alone.
Eczema is a condition
that is still quite complicated for very small children
who arrive with a lot of injuries
and I see year after year when they come back
with a skin that is getting better, with a smile,
with parents who are better armed.
It gives them little tips for their child to suffer less.
It becomes something that is less complicated,
less dramatic for the child to put his cream.
Parents are delighted.