Antifungal wash; Wash in the hottest water setting and add about 1/2 a cup of vinegar to rinse cycle. Line drying in full sun for a day or two or dry on the hottest setting in your drier if you have one.
You can also buy antifungal wash from the chemist, but I have found the vinegar works well enough with the sunlight. HTH.
Just a quick suggestion, we also had really really bad nappy rash with fred and nothing cleared it up. I spent a small fortune on nappy rash creams, antifungals, liners, wipes, new nappys, sposies, everything and it didn't budge at all. Some one mentioned my diet might be causing it... she was BFed and I stopped drinking fruitjuice and magically in 24 hrs it was gone and hasn't been back since....
I know it generally happens on hot days, but is there something that she is consuming on hot days (or you if you are BF) that may be contributing to it?
Thanks again everyone for your responses
OK it must be microfleece touching her bum then and microfibre on the inside (finally sorted that out thanks Arimeh!).
Reckon we will ditch them as they definately are the culprits. The couple of suedecloth lined /bamboo insert Itii Bittis we've had don't seem to aggravate the rash but I'll wait til it's cleared to try again. By the time the rash is cleared plus the obligatory one week additional treatment we'll be off to NZ so I'll reserve the decision on what nappy to try til we get back (pity cos IB has a marvellous sale on right now!)
Thanks Whoops - I'll give that wash a whirl on the bamboo night nappies JIC
Emma - wow another use for bicarb! That stuff is the bomb Will try it in her bath tonight. So do you wipe your DD down with water and bicarb then? A friend suggested I use sorbolene instead of water (has helped somewhat)
Ryatha DD is still fully BF at the moment but I do have a glass of fruit juice in the mornings - worth a shot!
Just had to pop in and thank Emma - the bicarb bath seems to have done wonders overnight! Not totally clear but significantly better
Will keep up the other suggestions too......
another really good nappy cream to use once it has cleared up as a preventative is MOOGOO MSM Soothing Cream......google it and see if there is a stockist near you....it is really awesome stuff by all accounts and totally safe for cloth nappies.......
Another really good nappy rash cream that I've found and use all the time now is Calmoseptine. Available over the counter at a chemist. It's around $13 for the tube but you don't need to use much of it at all and it cleared my DD's worst rash in about two days. I work in an aged care facility and we use this on our high care residents that wear incontinence pads.
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Will try it in her bath tonight. So do you wipe your DD down with water and bicarb then? A friend suggested I use sorbolene instead of water (has helped somewhat)
Not totally clear but significantly better
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