dribble rash - docs? what cream?

[michellle1980]

Hi my baby girl has bad red dribble rash and I am prob going to take her to the docs. Going to the pharmacist this PM first.

Did you take yours to the doctors? what treatment did you use that worked?

Thank you!!!

 

[rory83coyotes]

I would try just a thin layer of vaseline or antibiotic ointment. Would protect the skin from the constant water irritating it

 

[April76]

My 6 month old boy has got a dribble rash a the moment, one minute it seems to get better and then the next it seems really bad, i have been putting a thin layer of sudocrem on his chin.

 

[erikab922]

BEPANTHEN! My LO had a really terrible dribble rash, was taking her to the baby clinic to get weighed anyway and asked the HV and she said to try Bepanthen because it creates a layer so it doesn't get worse, but it also lets the skin breathe so it can heal. She was dead right, it worked really well.

Tried Sudocrem but just kept making it look like it was turning yeasty, it was just the Sudocrem getting into the folds. Didn't work.

 

[dizz]

I've been using a very very thin (just touching my finger in the pot and then sweeping along her skin) sweep of sudocreme on very dribblerashy neck folds - I take it off a couple of times a day and replace it with new cream... cleared up a rash that was on the borders of bleeding it was so sore within a couple of days.

 

[michellle1980]

pharmacist just told me dribble rash is usually fungal and told me to use caneston like for tgrush. anyone tried this?

 

[erikab922]

pharmacist just told me dribble rash is usually fungal and told me to use caneston like for tgrush. anyone tried this?

That's what I was told and then told that to HV and she said 'Give the Bepanthen a try first and if that doesn't work try an anti-fungal'. Said lots of people think it's fungal when it's not. Turns out ours wasn't so if you're going to pick up some Canesten get some Bepanthen as well.

 

[michellle1980]

oh I'll get some tomorrow thanks

 

[katy1985]

Another vote for bepanthen here as well. It's brilliant stuff, I've used it on dribble rash, and sometimes LO gets a bit sore in her creases and it clears it up xx