greengirl19
02-28-2011, 06:33 AM
This may or may not be a cloth diapering issue . . . but here goes.
G has something wrong going on in his diaper area. He's never had a diaper rash really so I'm not very familiar with what causes them. But he has some red irritation on the end of his penis and the opening is infected. There was a tiny bit of blood on his diaper last night but I couldn't tell exactly where it had come from. It happened a week and a half ago and I put antibiotic cream on it and it cleared up. At the time I thought it was irritation that got infected because one day he ate a lot of grapefruit and pineapple so the citrus got to him. But it's started up again over the past day or so. I've been putting badger's diaper cream on the whole area but it didn't keep it from getting infected. Now the opening is infected again and I can tell he's in pain when in a wet diaper. I use prefolds and wash in tide but I have a sample of rockin green I could strip them if I needed to. I've never had any problems with the diapers before but I'm wondering if they have a build up that's causing irritation. They dont smell any different than normal or anything. Do I just need to change more often? We've be going longer between changes during the day because we've been outside playing but I didn't think it would cause a problem. Could it be something non-diaper related? He hasn't eaten anything new. UTI, maybe? I may call the nurse but they already think cloth diapering is weird so they'll probably say that's the problem.
G has something wrong going on in his diaper area. He's never had a diaper rash really so I'm not very familiar with what causes them. But he has some red irritation on the end of his penis and the opening is infected. There was a tiny bit of blood on his diaper last night but I couldn't tell exactly where it had come from. It happened a week and a half ago and I put antibiotic cream on it and it cleared up. At the time I thought it was irritation that got infected because one day he ate a lot of grapefruit and pineapple so the citrus got to him. But it's started up again over the past day or so. I've been putting badger's diaper cream on the whole area but it didn't keep it from getting infected. Now the opening is infected again and I can tell he's in pain when in a wet diaper. I use prefolds and wash in tide but I have a sample of rockin green I could strip them if I needed to. I've never had any problems with the diapers before but I'm wondering if they have a build up that's causing irritation. They dont smell any different than normal or anything. Do I just need to change more often? We've be going longer between changes during the day because we've been outside playing but I didn't think it would cause a problem. Could it be something non-diaper related? He hasn't eaten anything new. UTI, maybe? I may call the nurse but they already think cloth diapering is weird so they'll probably say that's the problem.