Ass Trouble

Could he be lactose intolerant? I realize I don’t know you at all (I found your blog from NaBloPoMo), but my sixteen month old is lactose intolerant, and when I read your entry, that’s the first thing I thought of.
My son shows no signs except for the VERY acidic poop that eats the skin off of his butt. It’s horrible. He can eat dairy containing products, including cheese and foods made WITH milk, but he can’t have milk by itself. So we use lactaid instead.

Good luck finding the cause!

Oh my gosh, poor little guy! My friend’s son has terrible diaper rash and she swears by that rosebud salve stuff that has been around for 100 years (though I’m sure you get suggestions all the time and have probably tried everything by now… sorry in advance!)
Jules
House of Jules

Jenn & Jules

Thanks so much for the suggestions. A mommy in distress can never get too many kind words, or suggestions.

(Jules – I’ve never even heard of it! Off to Google it!)

Poor you! and poor little guy!

Is there anything worse than a naptastrophe? I swear, the sound of a toddler waking early from a nap has to rank as one of the scariest out there….

If the rash gets a kind of tiny pimple look to it…white headsish…then I recommend you mix a bit of Vagisil into his normal butt cream. We alternate between Boudreaux’s Butt Paste and A&D ointment. And don’t use commercial baby wipes. Even the “extra gentle” alchohol free ones hurt like a mofo. I use these “disposable wash cloths” which are really gauze pads and warm water when the rash gets super bad. Happened 3 or 4 times with my eldest. Haven’t had the rash from hell with the youngest yet. Knock wood.

Oh honey, I will just send you a hug.. A big hug XOXOXOX

When David was small, sometimes his rash was a bit ‘thrushy ‘as well .. Very similar to what Becky described, so any anti-fungal creams would help him.
cornflour and water mixed to a thick paste is also really good for a sore bum… Poor little pet.. and poor you

cheers kim xoxox

I still remember our only really bad experience with nappy rash. My, how that child screamed. There was a mixture we got from the pharmacy, chemist,(drugstore?) whatever you call it over there, and you poured it into a bath and bathed her in it between nappy changes. I can’t remember the name of it but it was green and stank to high heaven. It was awesome. We used it thus for about 24 hours, and all was well. It was teething-related, believe it or not. She got the biggest mofo of a molar I’ve EVER seen! And her grandmother and I ate an entire 250gm block of dairy milk chocolate!

(Knocking on wood) We haven’t had a rash as bad as that- yet. So sorry for you and Braden ’cause I know it sucks in all sorts of ways.

My son napped for about 6 minutes in the car this afternoon on the way home from the sitter’s and was a joy to behold all evening (NOT!). If he was not being physically touched, he was screaming like his leg was getting sawed off with a dull fork. I think I was being punished for using the babysitter to do Cmas shopping.

Here’s to a better today….(fingers, toes and legs crossed)!

POor little man, and poor you. (((hugs))) all round.

I use Bepanthan and it is amazing! Amy had a rash like the one you described (only once thank goodness, it was antibiotics and diarrhea induced) and I used bepanthan. There was a marked difference in the next nappy change and it was looking 100% the next day.

I also use plain zinc cream as a barrier/preventitive cream.

Maybe he’s getting his molars. Anytime my kids were actively teething, they got these types of diaper rashes.

Oatmeal baths work! Butt Paste works. Lots of AandD works!

Poor Braden and poor Mommy.

Oh poor little mite. Poor Lotus!

Boo was sick recently. I only knew he was sick because he was sleeping through the night, trying new foods and generally a joy to be around.

Oh and he pulled out a tooth.

So I can only imagine what he would do if his butt was like Braden’s. Reformat my hard drive?

Kelley

http://magnetoboldtoo.wordpress.com

I swear by this combo– Annie had a diaper rash from day one it seems and through trial and error this was all that worked:

aquaphor (2 parts)
calmoseptine (1 part, you might have to ask your pharmacist)
yeast cream (1/2 part) (I forget the name of the stuff, it’s a single ingredient no-name thing, but it’s 4:30 am, and when I crept in to check it out Annie was actually awake, so feel free to email me if you want me to check)

The Aquaphor is a barrier, the Calmoseptine is something they use in nursing homes to reduce bedsores, and has a calming agent, and the yeast stuff is for bacteria and yeast. I *heart* this, since Annie used to get nasty blisters and even bleeding from just one poopy diaper.

oh poor wee Braden, and poor you too – it’s horrible having to do something that you know hurts them, even though it is for his own good.

I’m with Veronica – i use Bepanthen when Zack (and now Max) has really sore looking nappy rash, and the rest of the time we use Sudocrem as a barrier.
The Bepanthen is amazing though – only takes 2-3 applications and the difference if huge! (i don’t work for them as a ales rep really…)

Dude, the lactose idea is fearsome.

We’ve been discussing diaper rash w my mom’s group, will email.

Poor little man! We just dealt with this. Caustic explosive poo caused huge red spots on my son’s rear and swollen red hiney, with cracks. yep, hurt me to see. He had contracted food poisoning. I feel your pain.
You make me laugh. A lot.
We found Dr. SMith’s Diaper cream. It is the only stuff that didn’t hurt him, worked quickly and stayed on. Everything else, including the funky butt name stuff didn’t work for poo (no pun)
good luck and hope he gets relief… soon!

Man…The only thing that worked for us when we had ass trouble was an Rx from the Dr..

Good luck.

Ah, poor baby boy. When my sons were little if I saw the beginnings of red bottom I would leave them diaperless for a little while, letting the air get to it for a while. Just leaving the bottom bare for a while always seemed to help quicker than anything else I tried.

Hope his bottom’s better soon.

Poor little guy! I hope it clears up quickly for him.

This brought back painful memories of my own son. He would get red open wounds on his bum whenever he pooped. We switched to cloth diapers assuming he was having a reaction to the disposables. I never thought of a milk allergy. OMG…and he never had a firm poo either. OMG. Now I feel horrible! OMG.

Poor little bub.

I think all my suggestions have been taken, but I hope his hiney feels better today!

-HH

Adam’s been rashy lately but nothing compared to Braden’s flesh melting excrement. Beyond the smell and the fact I always manage to frost the surrounding area with defacaketion..I hate changing Adam when he’s rashy because he screams and what else can he be thinking? “Why are you hurting me? We tried the blow drier thing for a while but what really works is a curling iron. Seriously.

Aw, poor you guys! We have BTDT with the devastating, skin-peeling rashes…until we recognized that ours were Yeast. Antifungals (yep, the stuff you put on athlete’s foot) stopped ours. Our ped also gave us Domeboro powders to ease the healing of the exposed skin. It sounds scary, but it worked for us. Good luck.

WE used a good silicone-based diaper rash ointment with The Boy. Try letting him go without his diaper as much as you can, too, and limit the length of his baths.
Poor baby.

Unfortunately I remember that all too clearly. We let him run around starkers for a few days and all was well [eventually]
Cheers

Ouch! I hate when this happens. Everyone has suggested things I would suggest so I’ll just say sorry and I hope it’s all better soon!

Thanks so much to everyone for all the suggestions! It really means a lot to me and helps a great deal to get all the kind words and the ideas.

Ahhhhhhhh, poor Braden. I hope his lil’ dupa is back to its old self in no time!

I know with Jakob the Butt Paste always worked…and the name of it always gave me a little giggle.

Good luck!

Poor baby! I hope it gets better soon!!! You seem to have plenty of helpful suggestions to keep you busy for awhile, hope one of them helps!!

This happens out of nowhere to my son, too. It’s SO BAD. One of the best things I’ve found for it is a long soak in an oatmeal bath (put a handful of oats in a washcloth or cloth diaper and squeeze under running water until tub is full) followed by a good drying and a thick coat of Aquaphor. Also, when he gets like that, we rinse off the wipes (even though they are unscented and seem totally neutral to begin with) before diaper changes.

I would suggest cutting household cleaners from his diet, and slathering his hiney with Butt Paste. Rash should clear right up then. Hang in there!

my sister is a pedi nurse and when my sons bum looked like i had been using agent orange to clean him up she told me to try this regiment :

no wipes… use a washcloth or warm wet gauze ( such a pain in the ass… pardon the pun… but helps )

dry with blow dryer

use cotton ball to apply OTC liquid antacid ( Mylanta… yes… the kind you drink… it can be any flavor… i think mine was cherry… ) onto his bum

then sprinkle with corn starch

apply another layer of Mylanta ( it will kinda make a clumpy paste with the corn starch )

blow dry

finish with one more layer of corn starch

do this about 3 times a day. if he has just a wet diaper try to only wipe off the top layer of corn starch and leave the other layers intact. although mine was a newborn so we were doing like 4,586 diaper changes a day… you should be able to get away with completely cleaning braden with each change and redoing the layers of acid reduction each time. I know it seems cumbersome, but it totally cleared mine up in no time!! and really, it makes sense to use an antacid on your child’s acid eaten ass… so there are my two cents… do i get any change?

WOW, OUCH!!! The worst having to hurt them. Many comments already, but we had a very similar thing last year. Turned out to be food allergies causing it.

Meanwhile, I’m all for the nature-mom stuff, but when my kid is screaming in pain from an owie ass, I bring out the big guns. Recipe given to me from a single mom of twins who had to figure it all out double-time. Here’s what I use:

1 part Desitin (because it is VERY sticky, this is needed to keep the potion in place for as long as possible)
1 part Maalox (regular ole maalox, I used vanilla flavor bec. they don’t have a plain one I don’t think.)
1 part hydracortisone cream.

Mix those three things together with your finger in a little cup – (I use one of the tiny disposeable tupper ware thingees so I can cover it and keep some around)

Slather on that mofo.

When I’d use that potion, his butt would be just light pink in the morning and not sore anymore.

PHEW!

we had good luck with something called Triple Paste that you can buy at the drug store… good luck to you both…

I totally feel your pain with this. Aidan has had chronic diaper rash (well, loss of the top layer of skin like you described to the point of having blisters). I think it has mostly been because of his teething because for a short while, he was fine. Now that he’s teething again, it resurfaced, but I was able to handle it better after all the efforts we made before. We used EVERYTHING under the sun. We just buy the A&D ointment and LOAD it on after he poops or if he gets slightly pink on his hiney.

We also dry him with his burp cloths since we no longer use them to burp him.

He is also sensitive to orange foods.

Yeesh, lady. I don’t know what else to suggest. Except… hmm…

Did I send you some lavender soap? It can be calming to the skin rather than other cleansers you may be using. Let’s discuss.

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i know that this is rather late, but we went through the same thing with kenzie’s heiny when she was on constant anti-b’s for her UTI’s that she suffered. We used bactarin ointment on open sores, when she got them. the ‘regular’ ointment was calmospetine like someone said it is used in nursing homes on bedsores(oh it really helps itchy rashes too) and was a god send. Triple Paste is really good too(but the tubes are teeny) but only work as a preventative. Also we used to(and still do sometimes) add baking soda to her bath water since it is a pH nuetralizer…

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