TERRIBLE nappy rash

DS has this terrible nappy rash that tends to appear around teething time and tends to get quite raw in patches but has been clearing up with sudocream reasonably well (tho it leaves a bit of scarring). Atm he is cutting his canines and his rash is mostly cleared up with the sudocream except one but has gotten almost ulcerated inc bleeding and looking almost like a bed sore! :cry: we've had him running around nude or with just cotton undies on mostof the weekend and today but it doesn't seem to be helping! Does anyone have any ideas what to try to try clear it up??

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I find tea tree oil works the fastest, then always using a barrier cream after that. I am slowly using up various creams - Savlon, Lansinoh, Vaseline, all these things I have lying around my flat.

I use Calendula ointment on ds butt when it gets super bad. Works every time.

I love Lucas's pawpaw - works great

might be time to visit the GP with DS - I know with Blake we've had to get antibiotics to clear up a bit of nappy rash that wouldn't go away (and it had been bleeding too)

Are you sure it's not thrush? Impossible to say without saying, it's just that every time we've had a bad nappy rash it's actually turned out to be thrush - like if it's not responding to the usual treatments (air time, barrier cream, etc) then it's actually thrush. It's usually localised in a few splodges and it just gets worse and worse until you realise what's going on and get some canestan. Good luck!

we used corn flour when Kameron had it really bad like that when he was a baby. It worked really well. Apparently it is what Mum used to use on me, as a lot of the creams now a days were not available.

Sounds just like the rash dd2 had when she was just tiny. They were like big sores/patches that would bleed and they felt weird, kind of leathery. We tried everything and the thing that cleared it up very quickly was a combination of pawpaw ointment with sudocream on top. I think putting the barrier cream over the top of something soothing did the trick.

Oh.. And not using wipes! I tried organic wipes but they were bad too. Flannels were too rough, so I just used wet tissues. Mind you, we're talking a newborn here who was oozing poo all the time hence the rash :/ There was lots of applications of creams I can tell you!

Cool lots of suggestions to try! I've just dug out a sample of some qv nappy rash cream and it looks like that has some antifungal ingredients, so hopefully is not that!

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I love Lucas's pawpaw - works great

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I second this suggestion. Paw paw ointment is awesome!

I loved the pawpaw until I found out it wasn't as natural as I thought - apparently petroleum based. I was very upset that I had unknowingly been using it! Need to hunt down some pure pawpaw ointment for the next bub.

A lot of people have success with MooGoo creams? Poor little one!

My DS get really horrific nappy rash when he is teething too. And its so distressing for him and us when changing his nappy when he has it. We've tried a couple of things that have worked but might need to come back on tomorrow with some of the exact names as their in the change table drawers in his room and he's asleep.

When it gone on for a few days I've treated it like there is a fungal infection there (pharmacist put me onto this). Will check spelling for you but its called Daktozin. Use this plus barrier cream and it will clear up. When its really bad like this I use Burts Bees barrier cream rather than just normal one. Other thing I do when its very bad as he crys and screams when you are trying to clean it is use a soap replacement cream (one I use is called Acueous made by Kenkay but there are probably generic brands also) and I use these wipes call Pure Wipes to remove the cream. These little wipes are so good. They are completely pure nothing added to them. They come in little tablet form - like the size of a lozenge and you just run water over them and they expand into a wipe. You simply put the aqueous over the bottom (uncleaned so poo and all) and then use the wipe to remove it. There is no stinging or anything in the cleaning process which makes is to much easier got everyone.

Google Pure Wipes and you should find their website which details they stockists - I've never seen them in normal chemists or supermarkets. PM me for link if you can't find it.

HTH and hope it all gets better soon.

DS gets really bad nappy rash too when he's teething. The worst was his bottom was breaking down and started bleeding. I swapped from Sudocrem to Curash nappy cream and stopped using wipes to using a wet flannel and it cleared up. There are plenty of suggestions here for you to try and as every baby is different it may take trying a few things to find what works best for your DS.

I personally will be trying these things myself as currently my DS has huge red welts on his bum (to the point where they bleed when I wipe his bottom - he's pooing at least once or twice a day and that's when they're at the worst) and I've tried Curash and Bepanthan and neither of those have worked :(


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Yeah we normally use Moogoo if it's just a little red and it's not worked either, neither has the only papya stuff we have... Hi ho hi ho it's off to the chemist we go...

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Daktozin cream - it's amazing! It's the only thing that worked for DD when she had something similar, we literally watched her bottom clear up in hours. You can just buy it over the counter.

Good luck

Another vote for the daktozin here!
We used wet chux as wipes when it was very bad.

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I loved the pawpaw until I found out it wasn't as natural as I thought - apparently petroleum based.

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Yeah I know :( Tried different natural creams and barrier creams (Gaia and Moogoo) but they just weren't working. I figure a bit of petroleum jelly for a few days is better than these horrible bleeding welts.

There is another paw paw ointment that isn't in petroleum jelly.. think it starts with W? ETA: There's one called natural alternative, with no parabens etc in it. Hard to allow a few days delivery on these things tho when the little one has such a sore bum :(

ETA: We tried anti fungal cream as well... did nothing so obviously wasn't thrush.

Thanks for the name of that one Liz - will make sure I stock up before no. 2 arrives. Love online shopping but hate the waiting!

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I loved the pawpaw until I found out it wasn't as natural as I thought - apparently petroleum based. I was very upset that I had unknowingly been using it! Need to hunt down some pure pawpaw ointment for the next bub.

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I can't remember the name of it but there is one that is petroleum free in black packaging. Some pharmacies do carry it. It always worked a treat for DD's nappy rash (although she hasn't had horrible red, bleeding welts since the days of BM poo).

AngelPants - It's available at Novo pharmacy at TTP (the one opposite Target), if you haven't tried it already.

No i haven't tried it, I'll have a look, thanks girls!

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My SIL's mum scortch's white sheets with an old iron - cutting the pieces to fit in a nappy - it's amazing how it works, use cornflour like powder with the scorched fabric

It's all their family uses for nappy rash like you describe - and works like a charm I am told. So much so, I have saved sheets for her mum to scorch some for me in the future if need be.