Home remedies for soothing nappy rash

[ChirpyGirl]

DD2 has her first nappy rash, and it's a doozy. Its raised red patches on both undersides of her bum and is sore as she flinches when I touch it.

She has had nappy free time but I've got to get a nappy back on her at some point so what can I use to soothe her bum?
Sudocrem and metanium have not soothed it, it still hurts her, I have chamomile tea cooling down but have forgotten how to put it on!

Tbh, Chirpy, if metanium hasn't sorted it out, I doubt that chamomile tea will.

How old is she, and what's her typical diet?

just wet a flannel or washable baby wipe and wipe it on or put it in a spray bottle if wiping is too sore. You could try creams with calendula in them. Do you use cloth or disposable nappies, If cloth then its worth giving all your nappies a thorough 60 degree wash. You could also make a home made wipes solution containing tea tree or lavender essential oil or Aloe vera to use as a regular thing with each change. Just type washable wipe solutions into google and tons come up.

She's 4 months and Excl BF in cloth nappies.
I don't know where it came from, the only change is that she wore a fleece wrap last night which she only has a few times before (as I lost it) but her nappy wasn't exactly soaked this morning.

All nappies have had a 60 degree wash yesterday thankfully so nice clean ones going on.

Problem I have is I can't get to shops until tomorrow so I only have chamomile, metanium, bepanthan and sudocrem!

I'm sure metanium will help if I leave it over night but it is hurting her now, I can't get a nappy on ehr without her wailing.
She has just passed out exhausted from screaming half naked on the changing mat...poor thing.

Well it does take time for anything to work so would use the chamomile as a wipe solution with each change and put a good layer of any of the creams on until you get to the shops. Do you have any tea tree or lavender you could add them to the chamomile tea, like a drop or so.

you could just try putting a towel or nappy under her bum and leaving her without a nappy as long as you can. Air seems to be the best cure.

Hi Chirpy, my dm sugested this and if I remember correctly it worked: take a bit cotton ball and some corn flour and pat it on her bottom. Try this and see if it works. Hope it does.

only thing with cornflour though is that thrush can use it as a food source if there is thrush present. Arrowroot powder is a better option.

I am going to leave her to sleep covered over on a towel and just check she ahsn't peed every so often, that should keep ehr quiet this afternoon.
I do have a bit of lavender oil so shall try that, and might try the cornflour thing if that doesn't work, although it sounds very odd!

Don't know what you're washing your nappies in, but my dd comes up in a horrible rash if I don't use Surecare. Persil non-bio is particularly bad.

If she's BF at the moment, can you think of anything you might have eaten to trigger such a nasty rash?

I do remember that ds would occasionally get a very nasty rash (as you describe), after he was weaned. I wouldn't say he'd been particularly prone to it before then. With him, it was always if he'd eaten something acidic, like an orange, etc.

It might be worth keeping a food diary for a while.

Hmm desi, hadnt thought of that. Shall have a think but I don't think I had anything out of the ordinary yesterday apart from some pastrami...possible I suppose.

I always wash her nappies in the same liquid bio so that can't be it.

DD1 keeps going and lifting the blanket to show me
'ooh mummy, DD2 bottom, look!'

Arrowroot? Where woudl I get that from then?

just from the supermarket or health food shops. It will be around bicarb or baking powder in the same kind of pots.

My mum has always suggested coating the area with egg white, she swears it works but i have never tried it as i get a mental picture of a baby's bottom with a merange(spelling?) on top

Oh yes I have heard of this working too, definitely worth a try.

I woudl be worried about omelettes in my nappies after hot washing them!

just do a cold rinse before your main wash cycle. Most people do this anyway. Egg is a protein stain so is poo so would imagine it shouldn't hang around in nappies if you can wash out poo successfully.

(I was kidding lailasmum!)

Kept her nappy off for the rest of the afternoon, (went throuhg all my spare emergnecy terries, that childcan wee!) wiping wiht chamomile soaked wipes when she had peed and put metanium on overnight and bar a small patch round the edge of the nappy it had all gone by this morning!

Corn flour, absolutely brilliant

glad its cleared up, its horrible when they get sore just thought though when ever mine get sore its either teething, dd first tooth appeared at 3 months or build up of powder in nappies so i always wash them once a month on long wash with no powder and just vinegar even though i only use half amount of powder reccomended.

Ooooooh, definately use egg white. It is the only thing that works. It means nothing can get to their skin so it heals up. DD2 gets terrible nappy rash, open sores, when she is teething and this works a treat. It means it doesn't hurt.

And I have never had any problem with it staining the nappies. I put a slug of vinegar in the fabric softner slot, if you don't already do that, maybe you could try that too....

Sorry, didn't read full thread. Glad you got it sorted. Also think chamomile soaked liners is quite good and no nappy at all.

Will get some arrowroot to try on next bout I think (have some cornflour in the cupboard)

Brilliant stuff, Metanium.

Chirpy girl-I sort of thought you might be joking but have heard sillier things doing cloth nappy promotion stuff with local nappy project so you never know, people believe all kinds of things.

Oh and you can make your own baby powder by adding a drop or two of essential oil, say lavender oil to a little tub of arrowroot. I added ground calendula or chamomile petals once too but can't remember the quantities.