Breastfeeding Moms
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Use a washcloth to clean him, or rinse in the sink. Coconut oil is great for diaper rashes. Also, burts bees multipurpose ointment is good for treating and preventing rashes. Hope this helps you! -
Warm soft cloths for diaper changes. I you must use a wipe, run it under warm water first. Lost of naked time. Put a towel under him. Poor guy. -
If it's a yeast infection (yeast is in poop), you can use over the counter yeast infection cream that will help almost immediately!
I once took my dd to the doctor because she had a terrible rash. The doctor prescribed medicine that worked much faster.
Of course, leave his diaper off as much as possible & only use water when you wipe....wipes can cause irritation. -
Try some of your bm on it. -
Let him be naked as much as you can. Get the gold a&d and the purple desitin put them both on at the sometime kind of mixing the two it works wonders! Rinse him off in warm water or use a warm wash cloth to clean him for diaper changes. Is his butt just red or is there red little bumps? If there is a lot of red bumps he has a yeast infection diaper rash use lotramin twice a day and then the desitin and a&d all the other times. Good luck I hope it gets better soon! -
Ok I will try these things...how about anything other than cream?...someone told me about corn starch?...do u know if that helps? Thx again!!!
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If you have a food processor or blender you can make oatmeal powder, I know a lady who has used that on all four of her kids, she makes the powder then mixes it into a paste with water as needed. I would leave him diaperless until the rash starts to clear up some tbh. Last time ydd had a severe rash that was the only thing that really helped at home- at daycare I had them do A&D at every change. Later we switched to cloth at daycare as well as home and have had fewer issues- she's got sensitive skin and the disposable diapers would irritate it pretty often.
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Liquid maalox applied topically. Rub it on and let it dry a bit and then cover with desitin rapid relief cream. If you use cloth diapers, the maalox is safe on it's own but you'll need to put a scrap of fabric over the desitin to protect your dipes.
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By the way, disposable wipes BURN on open skin, which is part of the reason why he's screaming. You can use warm wet washcloths or cut up some old shirts and wet them with warm water to use as wipes.
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Use warm, wet wash clothes or rinse his bum in the sink or shower. 2 times a day do lotrimin with Boudreaux's (sp?) extra strength over the top, then the rest of the time coconut oil mixed with tea tree oil, if you have it otherwise just the boudreaux's.