Monday, October 18, 2010

It continues

Great. Now the yeast infection (?) area between his little buns is bleeding. Dr. Appt tomorrow at 9am. Advice welcomed.

8 comments:

Rebecca said...

Well, the doctor will probably set you up, but Rhett had yeast diaper rash a few times and that over the counter athlete's foot cream actually works really well since the fungus is apparently susceptible to whatever is in that cream. Even after one dose we noticed an improvement. The doctor will probably prescribe something more expensive, though. (Oh, so cynical...)

October 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM
HereWeGoAJen said...

Poor baby. Give him some motrin or something tonight so that it doesn't wake him up. I do that on the REALLY bad diaper rashes and it definitely helps. Now that she can talk, I know that it does wake her up when it is really bad. She tells me "baa-um need cream" in the middle of the night.

October 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Michele said...

That is terrible!!!

Have you tried Triple Paste? It's not for "yeast infections" but is for hardcore diaper rashes.

October 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM
Kristin said...

My kid's would occasionally have that happen and I would slather it with monistat/athlete's foot cream and then cover that with a thick coating of the old fashioned desitin (not the new, creamy useless stuff). It would clear up in a couple of days. It's hella cheaper than a doctor's co-pay and prescription.

October 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Natalie said...

That poor baby!!! :( :(

October 19, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Calliope said...

W had a diaper rash that was soooo bad that it was bleeding and awful. We went to doctor and he got an RX but the doc suggested baths in baking soda (1 cup baking soda and warm water up to belly) for quick relief. And to try generic monistat or vagisil- the 3 day tube if you can find it. I've had the same tube for W for ages because you don't need much. I used it instead of triple paste and then put aquaphor on top. Then used the RX stuff at night.

And motrin.

And I switched to huggies natural dipes during all of this because I didn't know what the RX of vagisil would do to my cloth dipes AND I didn't want any extra chemicals. So a natural paper dipe - even 7th gen if you can swing it. (that's what I have on stand by now if there is a butt situation)

xxxooo

October 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM
MissNoAngel (find me on Twitter) said...

Hey, I'm new to your blog, but we've dealt with many a yeasty-diaper area in my house so I felt compelled to offer some ass-vice.

First, IDK if you cloth diaper, but if you do, add vinigar to your first rinse cycle.

Second, you can treat it with plain old, OTC Monistat (or store-brand). We usually use the Target brand and then slather Desiten on top of that.

Hope your LO gets to feeling better soon!

PS I saw someone wrote about athlete's foot cream - that works too but costs more. Monistat is the same stuff but usually costs less (go figure!).

October 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Barb said...

We were using the lotrimin (CVS brand). Then Nyastatin.Turns out it seems like that was making it worse. We think the yeast infection had gone, and now he was just dealing with acidic teething poo burning his bum and then tearing when he pooped.

So we slathered aquaphor on it and didn't use wipes and did the baking soda bit. It's getting much better. Now his teeth are causing him LOTS of distress though. :(

October 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM

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