Constantly leaky bum

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My DS is 6 weeks old and is EBF. He has had nappy rash for weeks which the GP has now prescribed an anti fungal cream for.

I think the rash is caused by his constantly leaky bum. He is always doing watery farts (which I’m not always aware he is doing or has done, for example if he does it when I’m not holding him). Every nappy change has staining of watery poo, even if it has only been on for 5 minutes. Whenever we do nappy free time, he does watery farts meaning his bum needs cleaned and dried again. His bum is just never getting a chance to dry, no matter how much I’m trying to keep on top of it.

Does anyone know what could be causing these watery farts? The health visitor doesn’t seem concerned or interested. Thanks

My daughter did 3 poos every time we changed her nappy and we did 8-11 pooy nappies a day so it was a lot of poo in total. We didn't realise it was that abnormal. Cmpa and other food allergies was the cause

My son did this as a baby, and like you he had a bit of a sore bum, I would put some breast milk on it and that helped but tbh it didn’t really clear until his bum stopped leaking! I think they just have very immature digestive systems and pretty much not sphincter control so it can be common. It did end though can’t remember when but it didn’t last too long.

@Anonymous2224 thank you, I’m reassured that it cleared up eventually. DS was born 5 weeks early so it does make sense that his digestive system isn’t mature yet.

@Superscientist thanks, did your daughter have other symptoms of CMPA?

At the point of diagnosis at 17 weeks the symptom was screaming all day. It was only retrospectively we realised how bad her poos had been. They were projectile and often shot off the end of the mat. She also had feeding aversions caused by reflux and allergies but these came up as symptoms as we started to get a better handle on her allergies, she has 20! The feeding aversions started at 7 days old but were put down to a million and one different things.
She turned into a velcro baby around 3 weeks and around 10 weeks she turned into a distraught velcro baby. We went down the reflux and fast letdown route first. She does also have reflux but at the time her GP was undertreating it so it didn't look like the treatment was helping. By some good fortune we ended up in paeds at 17 weeks for something else and it finally got us in front of a paediatrician and on adequate reflux meds and exploring food allergies. The paediatrician said it probably wasn't but didn't hurt to try so her symptoms weren't exactly classical mostly as they ask if her poos were normal but didn't specify what normal should have been and as she was my first and it was during covid lockdowns so she was my sole experience of baby her poos were normal for her as in they hadn't changed but that didn't mean they were normal but it was nuance that in hindsight was missed.