Diaper rash

[Care]

Beside good cremes I would suggest the parents to bath the child in oatmeal water (put it in a little sachet with oatmeal in the bathwater so it gets a bit milky) and no soap. This worked miraculously when my daughter had rashes and skin problems as a baby....

[Skysue]

I have some babies in my daycare who seem to have constant diaper rashes. The new little one who started with me last week has a sore on his bottom so bad that it bleeds when I wipe him...it has been a week and the sore is still there. His mom said that it was an ammonia burn from his pee (he is in cloth diapers), but I have never seen anything like this (my own daughter and the other dck's are in cloth too). I have another in disposables and he tends to get rashes a lot too...his parents put cream on every time they change him, so I do too to try to prevent it. My own kids only ever got rashes when they had diahrea. I am just wondering if others experience many diaper rashes with dck's...is this normal?

Teething can cause this and a good soak in a bath with baking soad would make it way better. Tell the parents to give frequent baths and let them sit to the air for 1/2 to an hour after. It is not fun to see but can happen for some little ones more often that others. Just change those ones more frequently. Wipes can kill so i would use cloth with only water, when the rashes are really bad.