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So we woke up this morning, me with a bad cold, my daughter with croup (well, she technically woke up in the night), and then I went to change her diaper, and we now have weird blister/pimples on her bum. So we went to the walk in, and they confirmed it's a bacteria rash...so we have some special cream (something antibacterial).
So my plan to fight this is to use the cream (duh) but to use it with disposable diapers, because I figured I didn't want to get cream all over her diapers that may be hard to get out, and I wasn't sure if the bacteria might be 'growing' in her diapers? Ugh.
So my questions are as follows:
Should I boil my diapers? I know that's a common recommendation for yeast, but will it help with bacteria too?
When I took my daughters disposable diaper off this evening to change for bed all around the edges of the diaper is red, and it seems to hurt when I touch it. So we're back in cloth for the night (with a liner to stop all the cream from touching the diaper.) Should I be covering her with vaseline or something to keep the disposable away? Or is it too tight and that's why she's red?
Any suggestions would help...even suggestions related to croup (not diaper related, but I really want to sleep tonight...) |
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| hi. i would think that disposable diapers would make the problem worse because of there horrible drying properties. i would just use a liner with the cloth diapers and just use the cream with them. if you have access to teatree oil as well, i would use about 15-20 drops in the wash because of tea tree's ability to kill bacteria in the diapers. wash them in the hottest water. in the mean time while the diapers are washing, use a disposable with a clean cloth diaper liner to keep the papery irritating disposable diaper off of her skin. it will look a bit thick, but who cares about that aspect if your daughter is comfortable. if you do not want to go the disposable diaper route and i do not blame you if you do not, i hate using paper diapers on my son as well even for a short time, i would suggest letting her go diaperless in an easy to clean place such as her crib or perhaps in a playpen with towels lining the floor of it, or perhaps a gated off tile area such as the kitchen to let her bottom air while the cloth diapers are washing.make sure to use the cream on her diaperless bottom also. i really hope that these suggestions help |
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I'm not familiar with a bacterial rash, but would agree that TTO in very hot water would be worth a try. If you continue to have problems, you could always resort to boiling or bleaching, but things like TTO and vinegar have some anti-bac properties, so are probably worth trying first.
My sons always seemed to react to disposables when they were put into them. Nothing huge, but I usually saw some redness and even peeling where the elastic on the diapers was.
I hope you're past the croup by now! I think the new advance is that cold air can be helpful to children stuggling to breathe from croup?
We haven't done croup, and I know that's different, but when my boys have had trouble sleeping from colds, sometimes I just had to sleep in a recliner with them upright. Not a great night's sleep, of course, but better than in and out of bed. When my younger son was a little older and struggling with congestion, I let him sleep with this giant teddy bear he'd been wanting in bed for ages. It kind of held him up at a 45-degree angle or so, and really helped, much more than propping up the head of the mattress.
Good luck! |
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AAVT, please tell me that you are not serious on peeling skin where diaper elastic was? sigh... the disposable diaper industry does not give a rats behind what kind of allergens go into those toxic things. um to the disposable diaper companies... duh... don't you know that elastic that is put in those excuses for diapers is made of latex which some people are illergic to? sorry for the rant, i just really hate these disposable diaper giants who do not care about the health of our babies and insist that the CHEMICALS that are put next to the skin is nontoxic. btw, i put my son in a plain huggies yesterday when all of his diapers were in the wash and was horrified to find that the diaper felt exactly like paper and was not breathable at all.
i am so used to the cloth, that the huggies seemed like they felt uncomfortable. also, i dont care how much the diaper companies try to cover it up, the noise coming from that diaper was distinct and unmistakable crinkly diaper noise.
now the huggies pure and naturals, huggies best line of diapers, thank god, lack the diaper sound and normal disposable diaper feel and really do feel like comfortable nice cotton. i would suggest if you are going to use a disposable, use the huggies pure and naturals. they are a little expensive, but way more comfortable than mainstream disposables. they will most likely make your dd's skin feel better as well. the huggies pure and natural diapers are the only disposable diaper that i rave about when i talk about disposable diapers. the rest are all just jokes. |
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