Any magical MN cures for nappy rash?

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Weaning DD2 has caused diarrhoea and horrendous nappy rash, looks exactly the same as DS2 who has food allergies so I suspect we’re going to have another allergic baby oh joy

Anyway I cannot clear her nappy rash and it just keeps getting worse, it’s now bleeding when I clean her

Any magical MN tips that I wouldn’t ever have dreamed of?

We have disabled DS who's had to use morphine for pad changes and over my 9 years if having a child with horrendous bum breakdown...I can honestly say having tried wanky honey and everything else under the sun suggested by tissue viability....the ONLY thing that gives a slight barrier in extreme circumstances is yellow metanium!!! You have my utmost sympathy x

Yellow metanium and changed from reusable nappies to pampers with plenty of nappy free time.

Definitely magic yellow cream!

Nappy free time
Sink baths frequently
Yellow metanium
Medihoney
Cavilon spray
Cavilon cream
Whisked up egg white

And if it looks 'thick' cherry red, little dots at edges - consider fungal rash which needs athletes foot cream

I found pampers worked best for us too in terms of keeping rash at bay. We didn't get on well with Boots nappies or the supermarket ones. Asda nappy pants were great though.

I’ve got the same problem with my dd. The only thing that’s started to clear it is the metanium spray - the yellow cream wouldn’t stick, canesten, sudocrem etc nothing worked apart from the miracle spray! It was on offer at either tesco or Sainsburys for £2 recently.

I also wipe her with cotton wool and warm water, and pat her dry with a soft tissue and give her as much air time as I can do. Good luck, it’s horrible to see them suffering!

When bad I dried with cloth used clotrimazole cream followed by metanium x

Another yellow matanium vote. Tesco for about £3.

This might be irrelevant if it’s food allergy related but a friend who is a GP said there’s a known irritant in many brands of wipes. IIRC she said the Lidl own brand ones didn’t have it, Johnson’s did, obvs water wipes would be a good idea and I think the Jackson Reece ones are good.

Also another vote for cloth nappies and cloth wipes here. I know it sounds smug but my DC never had nappy rash ever. We stuck with cloth nappies or sometimes moltex nappies, and cloth wipes.

It’s this one we used, they also do a protection spray which I haven’t tried.

I had a thread a few months ago when ds had the most horrendous nappy rash with open sores that were bleeding. I went to the Dr and she rang the pediatric ward who recommend the same as a poster on here, an equal mix in weight of yellow metanium, orabase and Vaseline.

It really was magic, we’d tried steroid creams, yellow metanium by itself and a couple of other things. The mix seemed to help it stick to the open sores whereas everything else seemed to slide off them. There was an overnight improvement and the sores healed completely in a couple of days.

Lots of nappy off time and metanium helped here. My sympathies, it's horrid.

The crazy, horrible smelling yellow cream! DD had exactly the same. It was the worst bout of nappy rash she ever had, she's never really got it bad but her poor bum cheeks were swollen and bleeding after an aggressive few days of diarrhoea. Nothing worked and we tried EVERYTHING until I stumbled across the magic cream! After a day or so... Poor gone.

We were prescribed timodene for really awful nappy rash, it worked wonders within a day or so of using it. Really good stuff.

If there’s a fungal element to it (red dots at edges) then may need canestan hc, if open sores then potentially may need antibiotics to clear it up. If it’s very severe then seriously consider seeing gp. Feel for you

We are currently using cream to treat thrush! It's really helping although I think it may sting a tad as it goes on as DD moves about a bit as I apply it. Xx

Thick metanium with thick sudocreme over the top.
Someone told me that’s what they use in hospitals for bed sores.

Another vote for Metanium, even if it does somehow manage to get everywhere. When my eldest was little and in hospital, they told me to use cotton wool with pharmaceutical olive oil on to clean him. I guess the oil provides a bit more glide on wiping or something!!

Ds had reactions to metanium, sudocrem etc. Hands down the best nappy rash cream is Weleda Calendula nappy cream. Amazon for about a fiver. DS is almost two and i still buy it. Its magic. Will sort nappy rash in hours

I'm in the US but this is what my doctor prescribed (store bought and I had to mix it):

1/2 tube A & D ointment (vaseline based)
1/2 tube zinc oxide
1 tbsp neosporin (triple antibiotic)
1 tbsp maalox
1 tbsp clotrimazole cream (jock itch)

Basically she told me that sometimes we think diaper rash is something it isn't. The time she "prescribed" the above it turned out my son had a jock itch type deal so the regular stuff I was putting on wasn't helping it at all. This way I cover all my bases if he's even slightly red.

OP I am a nurse, few tips for you.
Barrier creams are supposed to be left on for as long as possible. You don’t remove the cream unless you absolutely have to. Slater it on and leave it unless he has done a poo. You can put more on if needed (the more the merrier here!).
If he has done a poo do not use wipes or water to clean him. This is really important. Barrier creams are made to resist water (wee/poo). They will not come off easily with wipes or water. Removing barrier cream with these tears the skin making the rash worse.
Use baby oil/olive oil with cotton wool. Then pat dry/air dry and slater on cream again.
So, don’t remove the cream at all unless he has done a poo.
And don’t remove with anything other than oil.
This should result in healing very quickly. If it still isn’t healing or you’re concerned see a pharmacist or GP, as others have said could be fungal etc.
And watch out, metanium is a nightmare to get off carpets and clothes!

Slather!

Instant relief for my baby when we stooped using pampers. Traditional nappies with a fleece liner worked well for us

The yellow cream made ours worse. I swear by bepanthen

As others have said, I found using wipes or water to clean really irritated it. My grandmother recommended using cotton wool with the pink Johnson's baby lotion, it sounded crazy, but it works! It glides over the skin and removes all the poo and you don't have to worry about getting it so dry after. Then barrier cream.