Is it normal for toddler to constantly get nappy rash from nursery?

[Purple89]

Has anyone else experienced this?

My DD finishes her run of nursery days with nappy rash every single week.

We send her in with her own nappies, cream and wipes. For a while this seemed to stop it but it's back again with a vengeance! She always starts on her first nursery day with a normal bum but ends up with awful sore nappy rash. I have spoken to the nursery before and they reassure me they change her regularly (her sheet at the end of the day shows they have changed her pretty often) so I'm at a bit of a loss.

Spoken to friends who've had a similar experience and sending their own nappies in has seemed to fix it but that's not been our experience.

Just wondering how common it is? At home we changed her immediately after a poo and regularly for wees, I'm thinking she must be sat in it too long.

You're probably right. She likely changed on a schedule and if she poos in between, she isn't changed straight away.

I don't know how they do that. I'm a cm and aside from the very odd occasion, you can smell a child that needs changing. How can they just ignore it?

I wouldn't necessarily say that the nursery are refusing to change her at all outside of normal change times, but that it seems that for your daughter, even a short time might be too long, and unfortunately when looking after more than 1 child, changes can't always be immediate. Maybe speak with the nursery to explore other options with them

Thank you both this is helpful. I'm wondering if she does have sensitive skin and any amount of time causes a reaction with her poos. At home she wouldn't even be in a pooey nappy for more than 5 mins whereas at nursery I'm guessing it will be longer than that.

What is she eating while she's there? With mine they would always end up with nappy rash after tomato based foods.

It can be a mix but it's a really good point as she definitely eats more tomato based food there than she does at home.

She also has a dairy allergy which they are very aware of and said they can fully accommodate but part of me worries sometimes that there might have been an error somewhere and that's what is causing it.

I will speak to them about reducing tomato based foods - thank you!

Don't be ridiculous. Any early years setting leaving a child soiled because it wasn't "on schedule" would have more issues than a bit of nappy rash. Soiled nappies are changed as soon as they're noticed, which for obvious reasons is usually pretty instantly.

Are they using the cream you provide at every nappy change?
My youngest got awful nappy rash and we had to try a few different creams to get it under control at nursery.

My little girl is sooo prone to nappy rash. It takes very little cause it, and if anything actually bad happens (such as sitting in poo for an hour by accident) then it's wild how bad it gets.
She can never use anything but water wipes, not even once, and needs changed immediately and wipes gently etc. We need prescription cream straight on if the rash starts.
So I can imagine maybe your little one is similar and they just aren't coping well with being changed on a schedule. Could speak to DR and maybe get a note to support a special request to have it changed more frequently at the nursery?

I work in a nursery and have experienced this with children and it actually happened to my daughter too before she was potty trained.

In my setting i‘m sure it was a case of not smelling a poo as quick as you would at home. For example we would change them at set time and always inbetween if we found a poo, but in a setting with almost 30 young toddlers a day who were in and out from the garden, bouncing from activities, it was sometimes hard to notice.

Also I will point out you do become a bit nose blind to poo as it’s something you smell so much so we introduced ‘poo checks’ inbetween our set times which really helped. Can you suggest this to your setting?

how old is your child? Can you try and potty train? I potty trained just after she turned 2 for this reason.

also I suggest the yellow metanium nappy cream :)

Thank you all for the super helpful tips - nursery have been brilliant and introduced the 'poo checks' I requested from the helpful advice. That, lathering her in metanium before she went, and spotting that there seems to be a correlation between eating something tomato based and having a sore bum almost immediately after, means I think we have cracked it... for now at least.

Thanks again all

Oh and also its given me a good reason to try early potty training as has been suggested!

We always change a dirty nappy immediately it is noticed, it's rare they get left in one for long!

Nappy types, wipes and diet are the main triggers for nappy rash. We have the opposite issue and sometimes children arrive after the weekend with a sore bottom which clears up during the week with us. Small changes can impact.