Poor Miss Pea. She’s going through diaper rash hell. It started last week, she was running a fever Thursday evening and it continued through Friday. Thankfully we had a doctor appointment for her 9 month check. When I undressed her in the office her little butt was blistery. Major ouch! Our doctor thought she had a virus and it would run it’s course. The diaper rash had cleared up with a couple of days use of Desitin.
Tonight, it came back with a vengence. Her poor little bottom! Not a darn thing will help it. We decided to just put her in a pajama top tonight and get up every hour to change her diaper. Not my idea of fun, but hopefully it will help her. I’m just at a loss of what to do. We haven’t had diaper rash before, and I don’t think that Johnny had issues with that either…but it was eight years ago…I could be mistaken!
Do you know of something that really works? A tried and true solution? I’m wondering if it could be a food allergy? We switched to Pampers wipes, but have used them on and off. We may be making another trip to the doctor!
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I’m so sorry she’s having such a difficult time. We slather petroleum jelly on Kaelin’s bottom every time we change her and it seems to work.
Hope her bum is better soon (and stays better!)
Here from NaComLeavMo. Don’t have any experience with diaper rash myself, but I’ve heard others recommend that Boudreaux’s Butt Paste. What about A&D Ointment?
Here from NCLM – we had diaper rash issues, but not yeast related. I did alot of “naked bum time” – putting baby to sleep w/o a diaper and changing the crib when a wet came about, and playing w/o a diaper on non-carpet floors to get lots of air. I used little cloths & soap & water instead of wipes (just cut up a flannel sheet). Desitin worked very well for us when I wasn’t doing those things.
I always found we’d get a diaper rash just before big teething times – my son didn’t drool much, so I figure he was swallowing his saliva & that made everything more acidic when it came out. That’s my theory, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.
Good luck!
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