Thea has a terrible yeast diaper rash. It looked so painful. I got rid of the last one with a tea tree oil(TTO)/olive oil combo. This time it just seemed to irritate it more. I even broke down and put nystatin on it. Also made it much, much worse. I let her go without a diaper all day (for the most part) and it looked a tiny bit better, but still a huge red raised welt looking rash. So I did some scientific research for another option. I decided to try organic coconut oil and organic plain yogurt. To determine which works best, I'm putting one on each side of her bum. We started last night and she is already looking better. I think possibly that the yogurt is winning. It looks less dried out than the coconut oil side.
Another thing that might be complicating matters is that I was using pampers baby dry diapers at night and I think she may be allergic to those. So I am using only my cloth diapers. I used the nystatin overnight with a pampers dipe so that may have been why it seemed to make it worse. Now that I think of it, when I used the TTO was right before bed and using the pampers. hmmm...However, I hate to use chemicals and even a topical anti-biotic so I'm happy to find an alternate way to treat yeast. It's a new thing to me. None of the boys ever had yeast rashes (yes, boys get them, too) so I'm learning.
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