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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 459232" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Often rashes from yeast and the acid in the urine/stool are hard to tell apart with-o putting the skin under a microscope. that is what the cornstarch and antacid paste will do in a day or less. Oddly, if she just goes to miconazole (women's yeast cream) the rash will get worse for about 24-48 hrs and then will get better. If you know it is yeast you can stay the course, but if you don't, you would change because it got worse so it couldn't be yeast. The miconazole cream will kill the yeast but the body will send the yeast from the lower layers of skin to the surface which is what makes it look worse at first. The antacid/cornstarch mixture will ONLY flare up the rash if it is yeast. Otherwise it will soothe the skin and neutralize the acid burn from the waste, keeping it from getting worse and treating the damaged skin that is there. You just need a bottle of generic liquid mylanta type antacid and cornstarch - under five bucks here.</p><p></p><p>It is the fastest way to get to the bottom of this. Once it is cleared up the child should have a cream applied at EVERY change - pref something with dimethicone or a similar product (what is in gloves in a bottle hand lotion that keeps it from getting washed off the second your hands get wet and makes it such an awesome hand lotion). This IS available in the Monistat chafe relief cream sold by the yeast creams for women.</p><p></p><p>I have used the Boudreaux's Butt Paste with all of my kids, but when a rash got this bad or had been around this long, the ONLY thing that we found that worked was to do the antacid/cornstarch thing and then either keep it up or go to yeast cream if indicated. I got it from a pediatrician who was MY pediatrician and also have been told about it by peds here in OK (NOT where I was born). </p><p></p><p>in my opinion if this rash is there for more than 2 weeks or so, a dermatologist needs to be consulted. One little girl that J was friends with when we lived in OH was diagnosis'd with psoriasis because she just couldn't get a rash to go away. Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disorder that can have very serious complications in your life, so early diagnosis is key. It is far more likely that either food or something in the diapers/clothes/soaps are the problem, but it should be checked anyway. Eczema is similar to psoriasis and can also cause real problems, but it is a different mechanism and is usually only on the skin where psoriasis involves the entire body much of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 459232, member: 1233"] Often rashes from yeast and the acid in the urine/stool are hard to tell apart with-o putting the skin under a microscope. that is what the cornstarch and antacid paste will do in a day or less. Oddly, if she just goes to miconazole (women's yeast cream) the rash will get worse for about 24-48 hrs and then will get better. If you know it is yeast you can stay the course, but if you don't, you would change because it got worse so it couldn't be yeast. The miconazole cream will kill the yeast but the body will send the yeast from the lower layers of skin to the surface which is what makes it look worse at first. The antacid/cornstarch mixture will ONLY flare up the rash if it is yeast. Otherwise it will soothe the skin and neutralize the acid burn from the waste, keeping it from getting worse and treating the damaged skin that is there. You just need a bottle of generic liquid mylanta type antacid and cornstarch - under five bucks here. It is the fastest way to get to the bottom of this. Once it is cleared up the child should have a cream applied at EVERY change - pref something with dimethicone or a similar product (what is in gloves in a bottle hand lotion that keeps it from getting washed off the second your hands get wet and makes it such an awesome hand lotion). This IS available in the Monistat chafe relief cream sold by the yeast creams for women. I have used the Boudreaux's Butt Paste with all of my kids, but when a rash got this bad or had been around this long, the ONLY thing that we found that worked was to do the antacid/cornstarch thing and then either keep it up or go to yeast cream if indicated. I got it from a pediatrician who was MY pediatrician and also have been told about it by peds here in OK (NOT where I was born). in my opinion if this rash is there for more than 2 weeks or so, a dermatologist needs to be consulted. One little girl that J was friends with when we lived in OH was diagnosis'd with psoriasis because she just couldn't get a rash to go away. Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disorder that can have very serious complications in your life, so early diagnosis is key. It is far more likely that either food or something in the diapers/clothes/soaps are the problem, but it should be checked anyway. Eczema is similar to psoriasis and can also cause real problems, but it is a different mechanism and is usually only on the skin where psoriasis involves the entire body much of the time. [/QUOTE]
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