my house is terribly dry as we have electric baseboard heat. i bought a small humidifier for the bedroom in which he sleeps a lot and i will try that baby oil bath. THANKS! I think john may have nailed this one. thanks to all for the responses.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"