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| Okay, I didn't know how to headline this one. My dd developed a very big blister(its a little bigger then a nickel) on her inner thigh where the edge of the diaper and cover are at. It just showed up over night and was already popped. It dosen't seem to bother her much but is very red. She didn't get any anywhere else, but she does have a red area, almost like a chafing mark on her other leg. We have switched to sposies for a time just so we can keep the blister area dry so it can heal. My problem is I'm just so confused about what might have caused the problem. We have had no issues with anything. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought I had seen something on here once before on this issue but I can't seem to find it now. Thank you. |
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I posted about a similar problem a few weeks ago. Here's the thread - titled chaffing at the leg (or close to that):
http://www.mother-ease.com/wwwboard/messages/Default.asp/sub/show/action/posts/fid/1/tid/21432
Anyway, I thought it was a too tight cover, so I switched covers. It was getting better once we started using larger covers but now it's happening again. My ds is long and thin and around 28 lbs. I can still snap in two snaps on each side. In doing this to fit his skinny waist, I think that our MEOS may be too tight for his thighs. However, if I loosen the snaps, the entire diaper eventually slides down.
I think that our problem was/is a combination of using a cover that was too small, the diaper being too tight around his thighs, and allowing his diaper to get too wet. I find that if I change him more often it doesn't happen as severely or as often (every hour or so and immediately after naps, whereas I usually go every 2 to 3 hours).
We, too, have been using disposables much more lately. Also, I have decided to try a different diaper for now to see if that helps. As much as I love my MEOS, I can't have my ds getting mangled by them!
Hope this helps. |
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| When my youngest sister was a baby (I was a teenager) she ended up with an abcess in her inner thigh (I don't think it had any thing to do with diaper, but maybe, it was a disposible pamper with taped tabs (before velcro stuff, the year was 1983) The doctor said that she must have had a tiny scratch, maybe from her own finger nail. perhaps it came from the diaper tab, had this same problem happened today, it may be from a vecro tab on a diaper cover or a disposible diaper, because diapers alone are too soft imo to stratch. Anyway, the doctor said the tiny scratch became infected and an abcessed developed. he cut it and drainned it and told us that we had to clean it out and put new gauze in it, so that it could heal deep inside before it resealed, so we had to have the gauze keep the top of the cut open so it could heal bottom up. I hope this isn't what is going on, but it sounds similar, I hope that we didn't really need such drastic care for my sister, but that is how it was treated back in 83, it became a scar later but it's in the crease of the thigh so not noticible, she's grown now and has two kids of her own! |
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Just wondering how your little one is doing? I'm thinking it what a friction thing personally. Maybe the covers and/or diapers are getting too tight? Or maybe it was just the way she slept that night?
I had been having problems with my girls getting blisters on their bum overnight but it doesn't seem to be like you're describing. Mine was a chronic problem that happened regularly. My girls' blisters were also nowhere near any elastic, they were just in the middle of their butt cheeks!
Anyhow, hope you got this figured out!
Karen.
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| Karen, have you had any luck figuring out your girls' blisters? |
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Well, yes and no. I haven't used bleach in a couple of weeks now (and I wash every 2nd day). No ammonia stinkies so far but one of the girls did have some small tiny blisters in the morning a couple of days ago. Which really confused me because I was sure the blisters were related to ammonia... Of course they were just small little blisters (so small that I had trouble telling if they were actually blisters or just little bumps). And I had stopped bothering with a fleece liner (they had never done anything to prevent the blisters and I figured that they otherwise never got redness or irritation from nighttime diapers). So maybe that was the cause???
Now the one that had the blisters spent the last 3 nights in a disposable (although she was dry one of those nights). Her sister never had anything the last few days... Now the diapers have just been through a pre-rinse (I put detergent in the pre-rinse now, seems to help eliminate some of the mega-rinsing I was having to do to get rid of all suds) and now I'm left wondering what to do now. Do I just wash as usual and hope it was just a freak thing or because of the lack of fleece liner? Do I wash with Oxy-Clean? Do I wash with a smidge of bleach? Do I wash with more detergent (been reading that old thread at DiaperSwappers where tons of people swear ammonia is caused by too little detergent)? I'm not too worried about damaging the diapers, I'm only using my very old cotton Sandy's. So in that sense I should probably just use bleach and be done with it. But I hate using the stuff!!! Then again, the girls have been dry 2-3 mornings this week so maybe I won't have to worry about it for long!!
AHHHHH, my head is spinning again!!! LOL!
Karen.
PS, sorry to hijack the thread with my saga, just didn't want to revive my old thread just for this...
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Sorry I haven't replied to anyone. There for some time now if I tried to reply it locked my system up. So far she is doing good. I ordered some af covers, I had been using rikis and they seemed to be getting tight. I just got the covers today so I can't say yet if that seems to work. I did have her in a sposie till today and she is healing up nicely. Just a little pink where it was so hopefully she won't have a scar. I will update again after a week on whether or not she has more trouble. I will say one thing though, she seems more comfortable back in the cloth. |
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Glad to hear she's healing nicely at least. Hope the new covers work...
Karen.
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| I said I would update so here it is. The air flow covers seem to be doing the trick. I can still see just a shadow of pink where her blister was. The af have a lot more room in them although I am already on the last leg snap. I should have never switched from af to rikies, even though I do not care for the extra snaps I really don't feel the need to have them on as snug. Thank you for all the help ladies. |
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