please tell me your remedies for nappy rash...

[missytequila]

Calling all experienced mums.....I would appreciate any suggestions on how to help my baby's nappy rash.

Its her first bad round of it, she is just cutting her first tooth and has a terrible cough/cold/nose too.. poor thing.

do you have any natural ways? any secret formulas or creams besides sudocrem?

am already using natural wipes, but should I stop them altogether?

I alway find lots of nappy free time helps

Water and cotton wool, nappy free time, metanium applied very thinly.

If gets very bad, sprilon spray, it's for bedsores costs a fortune but you use it very sparingly and works miracles.

I know it is cold but air helps - let her lie on a washable fleece or similar and let the air to her.

Otherwise the only other thing that worked for mine was Sudocrem I am afraid. Sorry!

E45 nappy rash cream really worked for mine. It's pricey and not available everywhere but I promise it's worth a try. Doesn't slip off the skin like sudocrem zinc & castor etc and seemed to also actually clear up the rash

Lots of x posts there. At least you know you're not alone!

My daughter has a pure potion cream for her eczema which I put on DS if he has bad nappy rash. Totally natural and very very effective

Bepanthen, by far and away the best nappy rash cream ever imo. All 3 of my dds suffered from nappy rash and this was the only thing that worked.

Don't buy a huge pot of any nappy cream start off with the smallest tube they do. It is trial and error tbh as we all have different skin and what works well for one child doesn't work for the next.

One of my dds reacts to E45 cream - one of the gentlist creams around

Maybe try a reusable nappy if she is in disposables?

I found Sudocrem useless, Bepanthen ok if rash is mild and Metanium is wonder cream for DS - wish I'd discovered it sooner.

Metanium - known as magic yellow bum cream here. Obviously make sure you clean well with water first and dry thoroughly.

I found a thin layer of metanium with sudocrem over the top worked best

I've always avoided wipes completely if they get a bit sore, even a lot of the natural ones have alcohol in which is very drying. We used cut up wet muslins and washed a load like you would a cloth nappy every few days. I agree that air is vital for healing too.

My dd had awful nappy rash too, try leaving nappy off as much as possible and we have tried everything but found that zinc and castor oil cream worked really well. Hope you find something, I used to dread nappy changes!

Metanium usually worked for dd and ds. We had to go to the gp's once with stubborn nappy rash and he prescribed Timodine (IIRC) its anti-fungal / anti-bacterial stuff that zaps really bad nappy rash.

I love the smell of Metanium, I have been known to take the tube out of the bathroom cabinet for the odd sniff.

My ds (2.4) has just had a bad dose of nappy rash after a bug and I ended up using water with bicarb of soda in it to wash his bum (it neutralises the acid apparently). Seemed to work. Followed of course by the fantastic metanium.
Or if you're bf use breastmilk - a tip from someone on here -it was miraculous.

I used to work with premature babies who would get nappy rash quite alot, IMO the best thing to do is do lots of 'nappy off' time, clean with cotton wool and olive oil (make sure you get this from a pharmacy to aviod any added preservatives) and metanium cream, i have used all the creams out there and metanium always seems to do the trick and worked wonders for my DS, but also agree it is a bit of trail and error and some skins react differently.

Good luck!

i used a rotation of sudocrem, bepanthem and metanium but found that nothing at all but water and cotton wool worked the best addehe best. combined with nappy free time is the best but if you can't do that then make sure that nappies are changed every hour.

I also found that DD is sensitive to certain brands of wipes so maybe change those. I find own brand supermarkets better than name brands and Morrisons was the best for me.

Using only cotton wool and water or if you must use wipes use the sensitive or unperfumed ones and ideally a quick clean with water afterwards to take the chemicals away.

Most importantly, dry thoroughly. I cut old muzzies into squares and used those as drying cloths.

Metanium - recommended by DD's nursery and the only thing that has worked (although bepanthen is better than sudocrem).

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Second the advice about it being trial and error with creams. In the end I found that zinc and castor oil worked best for me btw.

Have also got some natural remedy suggestions which seem to work for me. I am not sure which ones work best as I generally do everything at once.

Nappy free time I don't know if by 'natural' wipes, you mean reusable wipes? If so, I find that brewing up some very very strong chamomile tea and soaking my wipes in them helps (I add some baby/almond oil to the solution to help it glide on) Also, if LO is teething it can make the wee pretty strong. Somebody suggested that I boil up some barley (till cooked) strain off the water and offer it to my LO. He loved it (very malty - like barley water really), and his wee certainly stank less. However, I don't know whether or not this is useful to you yet as I don't know how old your LO is. Finally, if you are a cloth nappy user, you could try a 'strip wash' to remove all residues from your nappies.

For more, you could try clothnappytree. They even have a special section on nappy rash and offer a variety of solutions.

Opps - sorry. I have no idea why half the above message ended up in bold?

nappy free in the morning after wet night nappy is good. For as long as you can manage. Even if it means staying in not carpet areas reading etc.

cotton wool and water or washable wipes

• often disposable wipes have wording to suggest they are more natural than they are. Simple Baby wipes worked best for us for when we used them.

He was allergic to the gel core in most nappies so we used Tushies & washable nappies.

For really bad boughts we used metanium (be careful it stains clothes)

DS1 had it bad on and off until we potty trained him. We tried everything. GP had to intervene in the end.

Conotrane nappy cream worked for us and smells nice.

Just use warm water for cleaning maybe with a little almond oil or asda do a non petroleum baby oil.

I was also told to sit them in a warm bath with bicarbanate of soda dissolved in it and leave them as long as you can.

DD had really bad nappy rash a little while ago. Iusually use bepanthen and lathered it on to try and sort it out. I then mentioned it to the pharmacist who siad stop using it and try canesten, as it was probably thrush. cleared up in two days nand havent needed cream since.