does anyone elses primary school aged child suffer from sore bits?

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dd1 is sore again. very red down there, have had to do another wash and apply nappy cream. she is 7.

this keeps happening, she has bouts of UTI's and then sore bits after the antibiotics are finished. has been treated for thrush many times after anti biotics.

she is in tears and i dont know what to do.

live yogurt is always a good thing to give with antibiotics to try to stop the good bacteria from being killed off. So sorry to hear she feels so horrid. My dd's complain of sore 'totties' sometimes but it's never been that bad. It's awful when you can't help them much

Pester your Gp untill you get a solution

My DD (5) does get sore and red every now and again. Never thrush though but very raw, where she's perhaps sat in wet knickers for a few hours!

I bath her in just infacare when she's like that - no soap - then carefully dry her and apply zinc and castor oil cream. By the next morning, she's always fine again.

Does she eat sugary things? (I don't mean bad things necessarily but even fruit and bread can make the balance down there a bit acidic).

Oh yeah - DD is always worse if she has too many tomatoes and she's very intolerant to oranges so I limit both of these.

One of my twins (7) gets sore, I think she is a bit to rough when wiping herself. Dd4 (4) gets sore too. The other 2 girls are fine though.
We use nappy cream if an emergency and canesten from gp if its bad.

i have canestan for her as well, but couldnt find it just now.

she doesnt use soap as has eczema. i think she may be scratching the sore skin elsewhere then scrtaching her bits as well. she does it in her sleep, so i cant even stop her

Don't use bubblebath or soap of any sort. I use baby e45 bath stuff as dd is allergic to everything.
Check regularly for threadworms - they are as rife as nits in some schools and cause sore bottoms front and back in little girls.

Keep fingernails short and clean.

Rinse knickers thoroughly and don't use biological powder or fabric softener on them.

Make sure she knows to always wipe front to back, I keep unperfumed babywipes to use instead of toilet paper, as they never get all the poo off with paper.

HTH

PLEASE google 'lichen sclerosis', and read up about it, if only to rule it out. Often misdiagnosed as thrush, it commonly affects girls as well as adult women. Most doctors know nothing about it but it can have very severe consequences.

my dd(4) has this too, we do use dove soap, so may just use her aqueous cream from now on and buy in some zinc and castor as i used this when she was a baby, it looks awful doesnt it.poor things

do you use biological washing powder? This upsets my dd & me too - we have had no probs since changing to non-bio

i do, i used to use non bio when she was baby but swapped over once and thought no more??..will change back and see if it makes difference!..i am a nightmare with certain fabric conditioners and ANY bubble bath, makes me itch like crazy!

We are all allergic to Dove soap in this house. Goodness knows what is in it.

duet, it doesnt appear to be that. she is just sore.

use only non-bio, and she has cotton undies.

Poor thing! Could it be her diet? I've read that it can affect the bacteria that affects thrush/cystitis in people who are susceptible to it.(Not suggesting her diet isn't healthy!)

Check out Ferzym junior- excellent quality good gut bacteria. very cheap cos you don't need to use it every day eventually. Savant Health stock it (google it)
Also she may benefit from a yeast free diet for a while. Also check out the amino-acid glutamine. This one is essential for gut lining repair which may have been damaged by over growth of yeast due to anti-biotics. Not sure what age is ok for supplements but if you call Higher Nature (.co.uk) and speak to their nutritionists they will know.
Also there are great essential oils which are fungicidal you could use a couple of drops in a bath- ti-tree, lavender and myrhh. There is a brilliant fungistat oil which I've completely forgotten (stops thrush growing) if you call Essentially Oils (.com) they will help. They have the best quality oils.
And another thing you could do is buy some capsules of acidophilus from health food shop, break one open and mix it into a dollop of plain aqueous cream and rub it on her bits - this will help kill thrush too.
Hope this helps. I used to suffer with similar problems and I did all the above and I'm ok now!!