4yr old girl with itchy fanjo

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My daughter's been feeling herself/ rubbing regularly now for about a month. Initially I thought it was exploration but in the last couple of weeks she has been complaining it is itchy. No pain when weeing, but she does often not 'feel' a wee until the very last minute. She is pretty much dry at night so not lying about in night nappies.

Has anyone else experienced this? No pain so not sure it's some kind of infection, and I had a look and it's no red/there is no discharge or anything...

Don't want to go to the doc unless there is a problem really...

I use abit of canesten if my dd has and itchy fanjo,it soothes it but as shineon says you need to get it checked asap.

Do you have animals? My thought when reading this was worms. Was really common when we were little, and very easy to fix. I think it's over the counter now?

My DD had this about the same age and couldn't sleep from crying in pain. After an examination by the GP, which unfortunately she still remembers as an embarrassing experience, it was found to be threadworms. Pretty commonly passed around kids that age. Try treating for that first would be my advice if you can avoid an examination.

mine up screaming other night. insisted not in bum. next night shone torch up bum and saw a few threadworms (googled so knew what looking for). treated us all with pills. hoovered all rooms washed all sheets. next night problem solved... (doctor initially misdiagnosed as thrush but i ignored him as my friend's daughter was also misdiagnosed with thrush and spent a month furiously itching until doing the old torch up the bum trick and seeing the worms. apparently they migrate to the vagina at night. yuck.

I would treat for worms (Ovex banana flavoured medicine) and see if it makes any difference (treat whole family, change sheets/PJs, pants on under PJs at night, clean bedrooms and bathrooms the day after you treat). Is she itching at night?

Then I would dab a bit of sudocreme or canesten on as well.

dd (5) sometimes gets mildly itchy, but as they do tend to have not always clean hands down there on occasion, its not really surprising I never use soap on her bottom, or bubblebath, and sometimes a dab with a cool wet flannel followed by sudocreme puts everything right!

It could be thrush treat her with the canestan cream as already said and see how it goes for afew days

Wow, hadn't thought about worms . Didn't know they could survive up there! No animals, but she does have a tendency to touch her fanny a lot so maybe transferred something? Will have a peek tonight.

Thanks for all the advice, will get to a pharmacist asap and try de-worming everyone - no-one else has it though and I'm pregnant... do you think that's still ok (obv will read the packet etc).

uggh. very grossed out at the thought of worms! Have cansetan cream too so can try that as well. Off to google fanny worms

the more I read about this, the more I'm disliking it intensely. EWWWWW!