All, really struggling to help heal DD's nappy rash, hoping someone has a fantastic suggestion for me...
Basically it started about 3wks ago - when her first molars started to push through. Was quite normal for a week or so (normal for her anyway, just pink all over and rashy-looking) but then she developed one particular sore on her buttock that became nasty, red, quite inflamed and eventually broke through the skin. Ouch.
Fast forward two weeks or so - there are now three or so of these red broken bits, along with a whole lot of smaller red dots. Not a rash, ie not heaps of tiny red dots, the skin around them is quite normal looking, but these red bits are really causing her pain.
She is in cloth nappies and we change her every two hours (sometimes more frequently). She has been getting nappy off time - maybe an hour or two every day, but it doesn't seem to be helping the broken skin.
We were using Bepanthen - went to the GP (Thursday, so a week ago) as we were worried about it, GP put her on oral ABs, changed her to two nappy creams - Hydrozole (which is a steriod-based, anti-fungal cream) and also a barrier cream that has zinc, wool fat and salycilic (sp?) acid in it, and possibly some other things, can't remember off the top of my head. She told us to put the Hydrozole on first then the barrier cream over that, which we find impossible as the barrier cream won't slide on over the first one, so we've been alternating at each nappy change and using the barrier cream at night.
These sores are really hurting her... I've called the GP again (twice, no call back yest so called again today but she doesn't work Weds ) and am waiting for a call back but in the mean time - does anyone have any suggestions???
Sher is normally such a happy girl but when we do nappy changes now it is clear she is hurting and it breaks my heart...
What you are already doin gis what I would have suggested. Can you try bathing her in some salty water to try and heal it? I hope it heals for her soon poor little bubba. xx
I'd probably try using disposable nappies until it clears up. Also if you're using wipes maybe switch to cotton wool and water, I find wipes give my DS nappy rash so I always use the cotton wool and water and we rarely have a problem. HTH
ETA Meant to mention that a friend of mine who uses cloth nappies for her bub also had a problem with a fungal rash. Apparently the fungus (or whatever it is) can get imbedded in the cloth nappies so keeps reinfecting iykwim. She was told to soak all the nappies in detol to kill everything and also that it was really important to hang cloth nappies out on the line in the sun because that is a key part of killing off the bacteria/fungus in them.
Miss E, wow I had not thought about the bacteria in the cloth nappies... it has been a while since they got some sun (sadly missed the sunny weather in Melbourne recently and now the rain has set in...) so maybe I will do a strip wash and try and get them into the sun... and think about sposies.
My cloth nappy guru friend has just said that if we put her into sposies for a while, she might decide she doesn't like cloth anymore - has anyone had that problem???
Nappy rash - your suggestions??
) and am waiting for a call back but in the mean time - does anyone have any suggestions???
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