baby has ringworm - help!!

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Four weeks ago a health visitor said a rash on my baby's tum was a sweat rash. It hasn't got worse or better. I noticed that he got some patches of dry skin around his legs and back. Last Fri another health visitor said to get the doc to check the tummy rash out. Saw doc today, he said straightaway its ringworm. After I had picked myself up off the floor I got the prescription for cream. Had a look on the internet and its very depressing, people saying they had it for years and that creams etc don't work. I am doubly upset that I just changed his nappy and put the cream on, but looked at the dry patches on his legs and back, and find that they are ringworm too - it must have spread in the time I thought it was just a sweat rash and thus left the ringworm untreated. I am in despair, has anyone any experience of it in a baby? Do the creams work and how long till I see an improvement? As its all in the nappy area it will be hard to keep it dry which I read this afternoon is a major part of any cure. Will we all catch it? I only joined mumsnet last night and thank heavens I did with this happening today!

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I found out my baby also has ringworm around the nappy area. Doctor prescribed Daktocort cream. have been applying it for 4 days and it seems to be working ok. Doctor suggested trying to potty train early (she;s 16th months) and to change nappy often. I didn't know that people have it for years! Yes I feel awful too. Just hope the cream zaps it. What cream do you use?

the cream is clotrimazole 1% on prescription. The instruction leaftlet says to keep putting it on for a month. Early potty training isn't really an option he is only just 5 months! He is really wriggly its hard to make sure I have covered all the bits of pink rash with the cream. Am also worried that our other boy 21 months will get it also. I would die of embarrasment if he got it as he is in nursery 3 days a week (got to keep him in there to save place when I go back to work again). I won't sleep a wink as, like when someone talks about fleas, I keep imagining itches starting all over... I am just really upset that it seems to have spread due to time wasted on the wrong diagnosis from the health visitor.

Try Kamillosan cream. This seems bizarre but having looked up ringworm recently, I relised that this is what DS2 had behind his knees when he was 2. Assuming it was dry skin, I smothered it with kamillosan as it was all I had and it cleared up in a week.

I will try the Kamillosan at nappy changes in between the 2-3 times a day of applying the prescription cream. I had been plastering the area in various nappy creams but I think those were just keeping the area damp which the doc said is what ringworm loves.

I'd totaly forgotten but this has brought it all back. Poor ds4 had ringworm all over his back at about 3 months. It was where I'd put him on our bed after a bath and the cat had been sleeping there in the day. I though it was eczema but then recognised the ring shaped rash a few days later. GP prescribed Daktyocort which worked very quickly. it torally cleared up after a few days and has never returned.

I think BabyDragon has this at the moment which is why I googled it and realised DS2 had it 3 years ago. I'm going to try the kamillosan before I hike off to the docs.

Just found more of the patches on his back. I am going to give him a thorough inspection tomorrow in the daylight to get all of it! . Think I will also wash covers from everything that the cat has ever sat on...
I would hike off to the docs before trying Kamillosan as its a fungal infection and you need an anti fungal treatment to zap it.

My dd had it - it is not really worms at all, just a fungal infection, but sounds awful to others.

We got the ointment and it cleared up within a couple of weeks.

Not sure about nappy areas tho, as hers was on her neck

Ah, but flibberty, the Kamillosan cleared up DS2s ringworm when I didn't know what it was.

This is just a fungal infection - like athlete's foot!

It isn't anything awful and certainly not worth 'dying of embarassment' over!

Have got over any potential embarassment now, I guess its like nits, you think your perfect child will never get them... (well so far DS1 hasn't but he occasionally brings 'those' notes home from nursery!). I gave baby a good look over in daylight this morning and its behind his knees, on his buttocks, thighs, back, all over his tummy. I think I am more upset today that the inexperienced health visitor didn't know what it was a month ago when it was much less, and it could have been healed by now. I got more info from t'internet last night and going to wash all his bedding, sleeping bags, towels and clothes after just one use. Oh and have got an anti bac spray for the changing mat so DS1 won't get it on his bum! And the cat is banished to outside only for a while....
Thanks for all hints everyone, saved me a sleepless night!

that is, I will be washing everything until its clearing up....