Help - family want me to abandon cloth due to ds sore willy

[weasle]

My 19 month old has been in cloth since 5 weeks old. We use bumbles and toddle-ease now both with paper liners. I dry pail and wash usually at 40 with occasional 60 degree.

His foreskin has been red and inflammed on and off for months. Now it has been bad for 6 weeks and is even sometimes bleeding. Am worried he will need a circ. eventually. He also gets little 'spots' on his scrotum and rest of nappy area. He has had antibiotics but this episode is refusing clear.

My husband and parents-in-law have just sat me down and told me I need to change to disposables or boil or bleach my nappies as they think the nappies have 'a bug' in them that is reinfecting him constantly.

Any tips? Any similar problems? Thanks in advance.

have you tried silk liners?works great when ds gets rash.

have you asked a Drs opinion?

I would ask your doctor what he thinks and if he agrees just be sure to hot wash them. maybe give them all a boil wash then keep washing at 60 til it clears

I found bepanthen works just as well as metanium and doesn't stain my cloth nappies either. Have you tried fleece liners instead of paper ones?

Thanks. Seems I am doing the wrong thing by using cloth then. Quite upset about that really! Might try 60 degrees for a couple of days perhaps with bio detergent then abandon if no better. Had better prepare myself for giving money to pampers/tescos etc!

We are all doctors in the family, so have not taken him to see anyone else yet.

Talking of washing powder, it might be worth trying a different one. I noticed recently that dd gets nappy rash if I wash her nappies in persil non-bio. If I use ecover or bio-D, she's fine.

I've always washed my nappies at 40 with no problem, but switched to a 60 wash if either DS had a dodgy tummy or nappy rash. Metanium worked wonders for us.

Are you sure it's not thrush he's got down there? That can be quite tricky to shift and it affects dispo users as well as clothies.

i dont think your doing wrong.maybe worth trying a couple of ideas first rather than getting rid of cloth.

It might be worth using dispos until the problem clears up, then go back to cloth. I did that when dd had a really sore (red with blisters) when she had diarhoea (sp?). She's now happily back in cloth.

Mmm, have been wondering about thrush, esp as I am currently pregnant and having horrible thrush myself which is not shifting. But it doesn't look like thrush to me, but I have always been hopeless about skin things!

The foreskin does seem better when I just use the fleece bumbles without paper liners, but then that would mean the paper disposies wouldn't help then.

Disposables are full of weird chemicals that sit right up close to some of the most delicate skin of the body.I didn't faNCY MY CHILDREN SOAKING THEM UP SO i USED REUSUBLES.

If he had a sore willy and was in disposables, would they blame the diposables and ask you to change to reusables/? Very easy to blame what isn't the default option.

Oh and I wouldn't bother asking a GP's advice.They know fuck all about this stuff.

Time without a nappy on and the occasional tepid salted bath will hepl.

weasle we stopped using liners at all as ds got rash with paper and fleece.only time we use liner is silk when got rash.which he gets a bit as has runny bum due to cows milk intolerence.(doesnt mix with cloth so we keep pack of disps for emergency runny bum times))

I've no experience of boys, but bumbles always look really comfortable because on dd they don't press against her in between her legs. I put fleece liners in nappies that would be terry fabric against dd's skin - I think fleece must be more comfy for her.

Thinking out loud here - could your ds's outer clothes be causing his nappy to press against him? Vests with poppers between the legs might do that?

Try washing at 60° and adding some tea tree oil to the wash.

moondog- op says they are all doctors in the family so maybe not most helpful advice.

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I agree with moondog

If he was in 'sposies you would be looking for the cause not demanding that you change nappies.

If you really want to disinfect then why not microwave the nappies once they are washed? Modern washing machines really do get rid of most things though

Thrush?

Fleese liners are really good too (make your own from any old fleese blanket)

Clean really well and maybe oat or salt bath?

(and I am not sure that doctors are nappy experts)

also time in the air

and less detergent

maybe soapnuts?

First of all, it definitely sounds like thrush to me. I would use Canestan on the rash, maybe with a sprinkling of Daktarin powder or equivalend and see how that goes.
Secondly I always wash nappies at 60, 40 doesn't kill bugs.
Agree with all that have suggested fleece liners, they really keep the skin dry.
And finally, I used disposables for ds1 and ds2 and they were always getting nappy rash. I used cloth on ds3 and he has never had a rash.

Oh, yes and an extra rinse in the cycle in case it's a detergent issue.