Ok, we often go through the red raw bleeding bum (have it again at the moment), with DD, when she gets sick & if when DD needed to have eye drops that we now know she was allergic to.
These are the things i do:
1) no nappy wipes - ever - these are really bad for them. I wash her bum under the sink with warm water.. no soap - we use soap free wash also. It is very annoying when out - so i will use soft wet face washers, but again, never any nappy wipes.
2) my dermo told me at the childrens the best barrier cream they use is zinc cream with 10% olive (not castor) oil. You can get this made up at a pharmacy, but i think you need a prescription. We need some more, and as MIL is a pharmacist (but overseas) at the moment, i'm going to find out how to do it myself. Just need to find where I can get straight zinc paste from. Anyway, the jar we use is utterly fantastic!!!
3) unfortunatly you might need to eliminate whether it is fungal in nature, so use an anti fungal cream on the area.. We also tried a very very weak cortisone... neither of them did help (you can use them both rubbed in together), so i stopped, but at least that helped eliminate things.
4) some people say different nappies can make it worse.. just something to keep in mind.
5) i didn't find the second skin to be that great... for us they were coming 1/2 off every nappy change, so besides being expensive, we had to change them over as there was poo getting underneath it, and when we peeled it off her it hurt.
5) my paed told me a great thing to use is mouth ulcer cream with it is open and bleeding, as that cream is use to attaching to a mucous membrane, so cna do its stuff. Haven't had an opportunity to try it yet (only very red at this stage)...
Also, we are at the stage were she is screaming in agony every time she poos and can't sit down as the poo touches against her skin (at least i know when she has gone), so i'm going to look into something for pain relief in that area,.. like a partial numbing cream that is safe to use.. will let you know how i go.
I was going to say paw paw cream too. I am a new user to it but I am more then impressed with it.. Once it heals keep applying the PP cream or use petroleum (vaseline) jelly as a barrier..
Oh the poor little man. Oskar got a really bad bum like that from antibiotics, my doc said dermaid - just the .05% and I put it on after his bath, next day was still red but it was DRY not all weepy anymore. So when it happens now I just pop some of that on after his bath and sometimes in the morning if it's really bad.
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