Oh my goodness, those last pictures especially look awful. So painful and also in a difficult area to keep clean and infection free.
Reassuring what the walk in centre said though. Hopefully they are right and it will heal quickly and without issue.
Re giving the soiled nappy back to the supermarket for ‘testing’, I think people are over estimating the scientific capability of the stores R&D department. I highly doubt they have any biological testing capability at all, or any ability to deal with potential contaminated samples coming into the facility. In my experience, R&D isn’t focused on the biological waste aspect of products such as nappies and san pro, they are broken down into the ways in which the products interact with the substances and the benefits eg wee = a liquid as viscous as water therefore testing focusing on the absorption capability of a nappy will use water as it’s easier to handle & use in tests. Required minimums / basic due diligence will be given to anything about the actual wee & poo itself, and probably more at a chemical formula level vs a messy real poo & wee combined together in a lab eg will ammonia react with any of the chemicals used etc. A
After those basic checks the manufacturer will rely mainly on consumer testing to check the product before sales.
So unless it’s a question of liability, the original nappy won’t be considered useful, because they won’t have either the ability of ‘testing’ it to work out what could have caused the skin reaction, or the motivation to do so, because unfortuneately, one harmed child isn’t worth the effort.
Yes that sounds callous and I think it is callous, but that’s big business for you... it’s not about the individual customer, it’s about the bottom line. Unless hundreds of babies and children are affected and there’s a media shit storm approaching, there’s no benefit to them in making an in depth effort to find out what happened. It’s a cost:benefit ratio. It stinks.
I actually hope there’s a blindingly obvious error within the packet of nappies.
Otherwise no one knows what’s going on or whether it’s safe to use that brand, or if that manufacturing plant makes nappies for multiple brands, any of the brands etc. Or if it’s a specific combination of factors, such as acidity of the wee, length of time worn etc. And this will lead to it being very inconclusive and potentially ally of mums blaming themselves, as we are wont to do.
One thing is clear, your poor sweetheart must be sore and you must be worried, and I’m so sorry that’s happening 