First thought-- HEAD LICE

Ring worm?

My daughter has had eczema that regularly pops up since 3 mo old. 4 years later the mack of her neck between her hairline and the top of the shirt is still one of her most common areas to have her little patches. I just treat with a little cortizone cream and it clears up in a few days.

Lice

Mine has done this since birth almost! And he's 18 months!! It has lessened in the past two months though.

I think it's just where his hands go when he sleeps?? And almost like he'd get the same scratched spots over and over and they would never heal.

I was in about 3 phases:
-Didn't notice much
-Finally noticed that they had been there all along and determined it was weird, worried about it but not enough to ask dr. Determined I would ask at next visit
-he slowed down I think, so it has almost stopped completely.

He's otherwise very normal. No rashes, no bites, no odd behavior.

My kid did this. It was eczema. Comes and goes.

A few things came to mind as I read your post:

1) My littlest, as far back as I can remember, always wakes up slowly in the morning, and she always lazily scratches her tummy for a few minutes even before she opens her eyes. It's just her thing. She is also fair as fair can be so sometimes it's like she has red streaks all over her, especially if she needs a nail trim!

2) She also will scratch the back of her neck if there are real tags on her shirts or dresses, but only if they are the real scratchy ones, so I just always remove them if I think they're going to rub.

3) One of my kids started itching, but only here and there, very vague kind of scratching all over, the first time she got a shirt that had been tie-dyed. She seemed to react to whatever inks had been used. As soon as I took she shirt off of her she stopped. Tried it again a few weeks later and the itching started, but nothing visible on her skin.

4) My son used to get heat rash at the beach every single summer right in that very spot on the back of his neck. But that's a pretty distinct rash, and I think you would see it pretty quickly. Very pimply and pinkish red. The combination of sun, sand and salt water plus the sweating from the heat just ignited it every time. Hydrocortisone every four hours when it was at its worst.

I actually do think it could be self soothing...many kids rub their heads or run fingers through their hair or even scratch. Worth having checked out, but I wouldnt rule out self soothing given the sleep time correlation. I heard somewhere that most self soothing behaviours in toddler fade by 5.

People actually fall for the Dreft marketing? That stuff is nasty.

Put aquaphor on the area religiously and see if it stops. I am guessing eczema.

Hi there my boy are scratching the back of his neck and i tried everything he has been doing this since he was verry small can someone help me i tried creams and none of his clothes has tags anymore

My son has always gotten red patches at the back of his neck that he sometimes scratches at. I always thought it was eczema but the doc said it might be persistent heat rash. Aquaphor twice daily and steroid cream when it acts up. Their skin is thin and nails hard to properly trim, so it's easy for them to scratch themselves.

Lately he's been scratching/rubbing the back of his head when he's tired. I think it's just a thing, like rubbing eyes.

Possibly shampoo, conditioner, or soap not being fully rinsed out and collecting at the base of the neck.

Lice.

Tags.

*Do NOT use Dreft. Full of perfumes.
*Make sure PJs and sheets are 100% cotton

My 15 month old daughter is doing the same... Can't figure out if it's just carter's tag less labels or something else. Same issue, it would go away but then comes back and she scratches it pretty bad.

Anonymous wrote:Is it the tag on his shirts bothering him?

That's what I figured.