Severe nappy rash

[Grammy1986]

In desperation I am reaching out to see if anyone knows where we can get hold of METANIUM nappy rash cream please (not the Metanium Everyday cream). We understand that it is very hard to get hold of as production has ceased due to supply of a specific ingredient.

My little 2 year old granddaughter has particularly bad rash at the moment and my daughter has tried a few different creams but nothing is working.

Question- does anyone recommend a good alternative to Metanium if a source of it cannot be found?

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Yes nappy free time does aid healing we hope. Thank you.

Sudosalve has been a good alternative to metanium for us. Most supermarkets stock it near to the normal sudocrem on the baby aisle. As an aside, it’s also been really helpful for healing cuts/scrapes etc as it is antiseptic and antibacterial so a really useful cream to have.

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No problem :) my son has had a thrush/fungal rash before too so definitely worth checking if it's that too as that'll clear up really quickly with the right cream. Think they can happen because they sleep through with a wet nappy on unfortunately so a very moist environment.

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I found sudocrem very drying. The yellow stuff was the absolute best, such a shame they pulled it. My DD used to get really awful angry nappy rash from time to time- bepanthen was the absolute second best to the metanium. Tried canesten but it did nothing

Interesting @Newname26. we use the Sainsbury’s Little Ones own brand and that has zinc and castor. It’s been brilliant for us.

Drapolene is brilliant. We preferred this over metanium.

Sudocrem never failed for me and now my grandchildren.

It was a boots own brand I ended up with and I was looking for a small pot for my bag and ended up with an Asda one.

But I'm years down the line, and still embarrassed that I got 2 massive tubs of bum cream on prescription with the lady walking out from behind the counter and plucking it of the shelf.
I'd never heard of it, and assumed it was a prescription only thing when he gave me a NHS prescription!

Ugh so stressful OP I’m sorry!!!

we had to hibiscrub DS once after a horrendous rash on FIL’s watch - last time he looked after him!! It’s the stuff they rub you down with for surgery before they do the incision, I think it’s anti-everything: septic, fungal, bacterial - and you have to dilute it I think, have to get it from the docs I think. Did the trick but he’s 11 now and still flares up in the same place!!! I’m still fuming!

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I used the yellow metanium with my eldest which was amazing and couldn't believe when it was discontinued! My youngest had really bad nappy rash last year (red and peeling) and we got drapolene from the chemist which really helped and was just as good!

Clotrimazole 1% - in any generic athlete’s foot cream. For some reason, no one seems to consider fungal infections but they are so common!

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Agree. The rashes look so similar too

Yes they do.
HV thought mine had a fungal rash, and sent me to GP who said he didn't think so.
He was right