Has anyone had this happen with their child? I'm not sure if it is related to the little bit of thrush Aurelia had recently, but it is still going on and I am concerned. Last Thursday we took her to our GP, who suggested a mixture of sigmacort and canasten cream to help clear up the thrush and nappy rash. We've been using Simmons Pawpaw salve, too.
We noticed on Friday morning when she woke that there was an absolute foul smell emanating from her wet nappy. I spoke to the MCH line, and they said that it was most likely teething if it was redolent of ammonia...but this is not the smell. If you'll forgive me, it actually smells closer to rotting meat. It's really intense, and only happens with the overnight nappy (we use cloth), and I just don't understand how a smell that bad could be simply related to teething.
I became worried that it was a UTI, so my daughter went to the children's hospital, to be safe. A urine sample was taken, and a test done there (just a stick in the urine), but it came up clean. The doctor who saw us said that since nothing came up on the preliminary test, and that there were no other signs of illness, and no fever, that there wasn't any point sending off the sample for further testing.
Since then, we finished our five day course of canasten/sigmacort and the thrush has all cleared up. We thought we would wait to see if the smell stopped once we finished that, as it is the only thing that has changed, but this morning she woke up with the same smell. It's so strong that it makes our entire bedroom smell, her sleeping bag, and even the sheets in her hammock. I just don't understand how a smell like that could not be an indicator of something being wrong. Is the urine test definitive? Is there any way that there could be something wrong and it couldn't have picked it up? Has anyone had anything similar happen? I'd really appreciate any advice.
Could she be dehydrated at all? Or just not drinking enough water?
Maybe try upping her water intake & see what happens.
Could she just be weeing more overnight? Sounds like an odd smell. DS gets a strong ammonia smell sometimes, but not like that.
She's almost seven months old, so we've only just begun offering her water over the past few weeks. She seems to take in quite a lot of water, and has been doing so for the past few weeks, I would say, but the amount of urine overnight has been constant. The number of wet nappies each day hasn't varied, it's just the really bad smell to the overnight nappies has suddenly started happening...
That's why we took her to the RCH, to have a urine test. But it came back clean, so according to that test, no. But as I mentioned in my original post, what I'm wondering is whether the preliminary, stick-in-urine tests can actually pick up all forms of bacteria? As in, how conclusive are those initial test results?
Sudden terrible smelling urine.
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