Booty battles- December 4, 2011
Take a look at this tushy….
Adorable right? I mean, it even has a baby Cookie Monster on it. That bum has ruled our lives this weekend.
Poor kid. She’s had some diaper rash all week long. But, it got bad fast. When we changed her Saturday morning her skin was raw, almost bleeding in some areas. I called the Pediatrician’s office and the nurse gave us some rules to live by this weekend. We cancelled our plans and declared full-tilt war on skin irritation. This is what we did…
- Bought Lamasil for the rash– Yep, the Athletes Foot cream. Makes sense. The nurse said most diaper rashes are fungal. To treat this fungus among us we put on the Lamasil and then put on a good coat of diaper cream to create a thicker barrier between waste and skin.
- Baking soda bath– We soaked her little bare booty in the tub a couple times. The baking soda wouldn’t burn. The nurse said it would be soothing.
- No wipes– The nurse said they just leave a film that bacteria get trapped in. She said to forget them until it clears up. So we stayed at home and washed that little bottom all weekend.
Okay, when my child like 12 or 13 years-old she’s gonna kill me for writing this on the Internet, but…
We invented THE BABY BIDET!!!!
Well, it’s just the squirt bottle from the hospital I’ve used to give her a bath all year, but it worked like a charm. She would look at us and giggle with her hiney sticking out while we squirted it with warm water. It gave us a good laugh.
Oh! My dear friends who are cloth-diapering gurus will be glad to know I even considered picking up a few cloth diapers for her to wear until the rash clears up because I heard it can help. I didn’t really need to because her bottom is looking much cuter and far less irritated.
We’re open to any and all of your diaper rash cures. Did any of you install an actual bidet? (Please say you didn’t.)
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We've had similar issues at times. Our magic potion was to mix lamisil, cortisone, and desitin (the thick, not the creamy). Good luck!
Whenever we get rasht, I slather on the zinc based diaper cream, white pastey stuff. I can count on one hand the number of times it got bad enough to need to add in a yeast cream, we used generic vagisil if I remember correctly.
A mild vinegar water spray works well too in place of wipes, and nakey time.
We have used Lamisil too. I've found the texture is thicker than yeast infection cream (which you can also use!)
If it DOESN'T work, take her in. My son had one that just would NOT go away no matter what I tried. Turned out it was bacterial, not yeast, and with some antibiotics (can't remember if it was cream or oral), he got all better! I think that one actually started with some irritation from Luvs diapers. I had to switch to unscented diapers for him.
Will had rash all the time. John seems to have an ass of steel because he's yet to get one. Anyway, our pediatrician told us to put Mylanta on a cotton ball and smear it on. That seemed to work pretty well.
The BEST thing I found, though, was the Boudreaux Putt Paste Rash protectant spray.
http://www.amazon.com/Boudreauxs-Rash-Protector-2-oz/dp/B00331LG1U
It sprays on, so it doesn't hurt them when you apply it and it seemed to heal it faster as well. My $.02.
When Gigi gets diaper rash we have her go naked as much as possible to help air it out. Our pediatrician says that rash is mostly caused from too much acid in the urine, but that could just be the case for Gigi since she has so many allergies.
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