Nappy rash

[Thomzo]

You rant away Honey. I know what you mean. Renovating a house can be incredibly expensive and you have needed some major building work.

I figure it's good to be better than the average person. Be as green as you can afford to be and don't feel guilty about what you can't do.

Zoe

[Annpan]

Cheers Zoe

Just having one of those days

[ina]

Cheers Zoe

Just having one of those days

We all have them - and it's good to know here's a site with sympathetic ears!

[Shirley]

I think the weleda cream is EXCELLENT too. I know you say the sudocrem works and I used to use it - a little goes a long way... the weleda smells good too.

I used to use Moltex nappies on J - they were great. A bit expensive but better than nappy rash. Have you ever smelt a pampers or huggies nappy when they come straight out of the packet - they reek of chemicals.

I can check the prices of moltex from the neeps food co-op for you if that's a help - I realise you are not in the north east but we've got neepsters up and down the country that might be able to help.

[Annpan]

Thanks Shirley

Nature Babycare are £5.98 for 32 (size 9-20kg) = 18.7p per nappy

If moltex firgure out better than that, and we can figure out a way of getting them to the central belt (even if that means dropping them with a friend or family member) I'd gladly take you up on it.



Sorry about yesterday guys, I was getting stressed out by everything (House, Christmas, Toddler, Family, Friends) But I am feeling much more cheery and possitive today. We all deserve a wobble every now and then

Thanks again.

[Chickenlady]

Can I ask what reusables you are using, Ann? Those made from terry towelling are way better than any others I have found. Some of the others get so wet they must contribute to nappy rash if the baby is susceptible (ie teething or unwell).

The little girl I look after had the most appalling nappy rash when she was teething recently. It was weeping and so painful. Her mum likes to use everything natural, but resorted to good old vaseline, as has already been mentioned, as a preventative. It seems to be the only barrier cream that lasts the 3 hours or so between changes. It did the job anyway.

[Chickenlady]

BTW, these are the really good reusables:

http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/Selling.asp?product=220

Expensive initially, but they last ages as the clip means you can fix them at the right size. The little girl I mentioned has had hers since birth and is now 14 months old - they still fit fine! I reckon they would save you a lot of money over a few months.

[Shirley]

Thanks Shirley

Nature Babycare are £5.98 for 32 (size 9-20kg) = 18.7p per nappy

If moltex firgure out better than that, and we can figure out a way of getting them to the central belt (even if that means dropping them with a friend or family member) I'd gladly take you up on it.



Sorry about yesterday guys, I was getting stressed out by everything (House, Christmas, Toddler, Family, Friends) But I am feeling much more cheery and possitive today. We all deserve a wobble every now and then

Thanks again.

They are not cheaper than that Annpan, sorry. Maxi Nappy 7-18kg OKO
£27.94 for 3 packs of 42 - 22p per nappy

Have you checked with your council - they may have a cloth nappy start up grant or test pack that you can try.

[Annpan]

No luck

Our council is crappy when it comes to grants and incentives (they don't even give us a recycling pick-up) South Lanarkshire though... I think we have one of the highest JSA an IB rates in the country, so I guess we come pretty far down the list of priorities.

I have some real nappies... anyone have a nappy nippa they can pop in the post, so I can use the terrys I have bought... pins frighten me.

[getting there]

Sorry to thread jack. My dd has just gotten nappy rash after two days of using sposies (bad weather). Poor wee girl, I could see it starting but had to wait for the nappies to dry. She almost never gets nappy rash except from sposies. It just backed up my belief that conventional sposies are designed to cause nappy rash.

Ok thread jack over, thanks for your patience.

[MsWildFlower]

Sorry to thread jack. My dd has just gotten nappy rash after two days of using sposies (bad weather). Poor wee girl, I could see it starting but had to wait for the nappies to dry. She almost never gets nappy rash except from sposies. It just backed up my belief that conventional sposies are designed to cause nappy rash.

Ok thread jack over, thanks for your patience.

I've been told that converting either to disposables or to modern cloth nappies can cause nappy rash problems initially. Going to sposies might keep the skin quite dry and also as they absorb more there may be traces of urine left on the skin for longer due to the longer time between changes?? Just a thought.

Incidentally, going to cloth nappies from sposies can also be problematic ...

Elimination communication anyone (wish I could read my daughters signs).

[citizentwiglet]

Back to the original Huggies rant....yep, Huggies bring Ellis out in dreadful nappy rash too. They are far more 'plasticky' (is that actually a word?) than a lot of the others.

I find that, in the 'evil sposie' market, Asda's Comfort Dry are great as are the Cien ones you get from Lidl, believe it or not.

Best thing I have ever tried for nappy rash is egg-white just gently smeared over the area and left to dry - you can keep the egg white in the fridge for 48 hours in a covered container as long as you don't dip your cloth/fingers into it more than once per application (stops contamination). As someone else says, banish the baby-wipes and strong baby baths and lotions until it has healed up too.

Can't wait until potty training time....I'm already saving ma pennies for some reusables for when we decide to have another sproglet. Besides the horrible chemicals and the environmental issues with sposies, it makes me weep openly when I see how much cash I've spent on the ruddy things.

[Esther.R]

I've found Huggies far better than pampers - neither give her a rash but pampers smell horrible and chemically when getting full and have a tendancy to leak. However I have found Somerfield's own to be as good as Huggies but a lot cheaper! I was using the mostly biodegradable ones from Co-op but she takes a 6 now and they only go to 5 (she is just over two now so approaching potty training).

We use home-made fabric nappies for nighttime (based roughly on her Huggles Minki's that she has outgrown) with a Motherease wrap, but she is in disposables at the moment for daytime while I sort out making/buying bigger daytime fabric ones for her.

The only time she gets a rash is if she has sat in a dirty nappy without me realising and it has mixed with the wee, we have been lucky and had no other problems with either type, even when changing between them.

[citizentwiglet]

That's the thing though, isn't it? Apart from teething / diet changes / illness then the major cause of nappy rash is the chemical combination of the poo and the wee combined in the same nappy. Luckily, Ellis is prone to the most stinky poos known to humanity that even obliterate the scents put in by the companies (and can empty a bus in 5 seconds) so I know to change him pronto. I guess that must be his mostly vegetarian diet (apart from fruit and veg, he'll only eat sardines...of all things, LOL!).

Have you ever put a sprog in a paddling-pool wearing a normal sposie? When they come out, tis a truely scary thing indeed. That stuff that bursts out of the nappy is EVIL I tell you, EEEEEEEVIIIILLLL.......

[Annpan]

Well, the nappy rash cleared up. But a few times the nappy has soaked right through at night time. I won't be using Huggies regularly - but I will probably take advantage of special offers, and with all the money off vouchers I have for huggies and pampers....

I plan to return to nature baby care (mostly), until the summer, when I will use more re-usables (I have enough trouble keeping up with regular washing atm)

Roll on potty training


To add, it is interesting to see how huggies seems to be the one most likely to cause rash. I also want to thank everyone for not being 'holier-than-thou' about re-usables, compostables, super green greenys.... I love Self-sufficientish