(@) halp. Diaper rash

[pescalita]

Okay, A has developed a mean little diaper rash, mostly in a band just under the belly button. It's not going away with CA baby cream or olive oil.

We put him in disposables for a day and used the petrolatum cream they sent home from the hosp and it got a LOT better but not gone. Today I sent him in cloth and it's worse and spreading to the inside of his thighs.

I'm thinking it could be yeast? It looks red and bumpy, but not like the bad pictures on google. Some parts are a little dry/scaly, that could be from the CA baby cream.

His naked lil butt is in the sun on my lap right now. From my googling I'm going to try lotramin and coconut oil. Then wash the diapers with bleach and sun them to dry. I think I saw something about apple cider vinegar?

Does this sound like a good start?
Can you really use chlorine bleach on colored pocket diapers?
How do you let a boy sit w/o a diaper w/o getting pee all over your house?

[JLN]

I use a splash of bleach and white vinegar on my diapers when PJ had a rash. And Burt's Bees diaper cream worked really well for us.

[eclaires]

One of my friends had a good recipe for diaper rash... it was something like lotrimin, maalox and one other ingredient (a thickener...can't remember what). It might be worth trying something like that - Jackson had one diaper rash throughout all of his diaper wearing days, and that combo cleared it right up. You basically mixed it all together until you got a diaper cream consistency.

[EloiseWeenie]

That sounds kind of like what my son used to get, and it ended up being eczema. I used hydrocortizone cream on it and it was gone in 2 days. He always had the band under his belly button where the diaper hit (we used cloth too). the diaper rash creams seemed to help some, but would never clear it up.

[eclaires]

Hmm, this is similar:
www.tips4mom.com/2010/04/treating-babys-severe-diaper-rash-with-homemade-medicated-diaper-rash-cream/

(not that you're dealing with severe diaper rash necessarily, but just in case)

[EloiseWeenie]

Jun 21, 2012 20:02:50 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Hmm, this is similar:
www.tips4mom.com/2010/04/treating-babys-severe-diaper-rash-with-homemade-medicated-diaper-rash-cream/

(not that you're dealing with severe diaper rash necessarily, but just in case)

My old pediatrician had me make that exact cream recipe with the addition of monistat cream. It was for my son's stubborn rash, but it didn't work, because it ended up being eczema. I did keep the ingredient list in case I needed it for actual diaper rash.

[Deleted]

I was told that Maalox and Aquaphor is a surefire diaper rash eliminator. Without resorting to that, though, have you tried Desitin? That stuff works wonders for us.

[taratru]

Maalox and Vaseline is our go to.

[KB]

If it is yeast (DS gets this every now and then) Lotrimin will clear it up quickly. Is it mostly in the folds?

[pixy0stix]

This stuff has knocked out every single diaper rash ZB has had, and it's cloth diaper safe. www.amazon.com/CJs-BUTTer-Tube-Plus/dp/B004YBWWOS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340329096&sr=8-2&keywords=cjs+butter+plus

[frlcb]

My dd has had the worst diaper rash for about 3 weeks, and we have tried everything, including 2 trips to the doctor. The combo that is *finally* working for us is the desitin in the purple box, hydrocortisone cream, aquaphor and nystatin cream. And naked time.

[blindyswife]

Jun 21, 2012 19:54:55 GMT -5 pescalita said:

Okay, A has developed a mean little diaper rash, mostly in a band just under the belly button. It's not going away with CA baby cream or olive oil.

We put him in disposables for a day and used the petrolatum cream they sent home from the hosp and it got a LOT better but not gone. Today I sent him in cloth and it's worse and spreading to the inside of his thighs.

I'm thinking it could be yeast? It looks red and bumpy, but not like the bad pictures on google. Some parts are a little dry/scaly, that could be from the CA baby cream.

His naked lil butt is in the sun on my lap right now. From my googling I'm going to try lotramin and coconut oil. Then wash the diapers with bleach and sun them to dry. I think I saw something about apple cider vinegar?

Does this sound like a good start?
Can you really use chlorine bleach on colored pocket diapers?
How do you let a boy sit w/o a diaper w/o getting pee all over your house?

I just cross my fingers that it happens in the kitchen on the linoleum. We've had a couple of pee+carpet accidents, but wouldn't ya know it, my sweet angel boy pooped on the kitchen floor a few days ago. Good job, buddy! :Y:

[Xyz]

My doc said if there were any little bumps it was fungal. Treat with lottamin or nyastin. I use about an 1/8 cup bleach in front loader for the diapers, but honestly I would probably do the pockets with vinegar. Baking soda baths also really helped us.

For naked time I spread a big vinyl tablecloth on the floor covered with a comforter and fence her on that.

[cotner]

I would use a hairdryer, on cool, at every diaper change with my LOs when they had a rash. I would run it for as long as they would let me. If it doesn't clear up soon, call your pedi. I am not a run to the pedi type, but DD has eczema and allergic reactions to wipes. They are all treated just a bit different and it may save him some discomfort to figure out what it is. And you will have your arsenal ready if it happens again.

[ering1115]

I use regular old a+D ointment or Desitin.

But my cousin had a lot of luck with Crisco. Yup. Crisco and a little tea tree oil to help as an anti-fungal. Sometimes she would add a drop or 2 of lavendar oil to make it smell nice. She really wanted to stay away from petroleum based ointments/creams and this has worked really well for her.