Hi,
My daughter is 6 weeks old and since about 2 weeks she started to develop severe nappy rash. It almost looks like a burn (photos won't attach as I'm new user).
She poos constantly and we change her nappy about 14 times a day. I have never changed a nappy without a poo in even 30 mins apart changing.
She has a diet of expressed milk and formula. To start she was 95% breast milk and it's now about 50:50. She tends to over eat and feeds often. She has gained weight and has increased percentiles. She never brings up milk. I think she has started comfort eating to deal with the pain. When ever she poos she screams and we change her. She tends to poo during changing due to the pain.
We have tried many creams including for thrush, bacterial, various barriers.... all sorts. We have tried air as much as we can but it's winter and she poos all the time so it's hard to do for long.
After 4th visit to doctors they have suggested mill protein intolerance and trying a formula with hydrolysed protein (aptimal pepti 1). We have yet to try it as the chemist needed to order it in.
Has anyone had experience of a similar situation? We are getting desperate and have very disturbed nights :(