Toddler Yeast Infection? - Redding,CT

it could be vaginitis, which my daughter gets sometimes. She doesnt always wipe great now that she's going by herself, which the ped said is normal for girls her age. We used desitin (she also recommended vaseline, anything to keep the moisture away) and when she took baths or went swimming, we got her dried as soon as we were done. She took her baths standing up so that she wasnt sitting in the water, too.

Good luck, I hope some of the other mamas and your doc have other suggestions too!

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my daughter has and has had them try a&d and if you have to nystatin is a perscription but stay away from otc meds they are formulated for adults

Get her eating yogurt - Dannon has lots of live cultures in it - get plain yogurt and add your own jam - this cuts way down on the bad sugar. This helps replace the good bacteria in her stomach. Cutting down on wheat is good, too.

I would pick up some clotrimozol or however it's spelled at the pharmacy...like in the monostat products.

If it's a yeast infection you will need an anit fungal...the doctor @ the NICU said Lotrimin was good or Nysatin (sp?) But don't use tons of it.

my 13 mo just went through this I ran up and bought monostat 7 it took about 3 days to clear up but was tramendously better by the next day. It says to use one each night but I spaced it out over the day 3x. try that and see what happens. also I used a faminine soap to clean her dye free fragence free and that has helped also.

It sounds like a candida yeast infection to me

Plain old fashion cornstarch!Got the idea from our doctor years ago.Because of it,I never delt with a problem with 3 kids and now 7 grandkids!It is like magic,plus change diapers every 2 hours.

make a paste with acidolphilus (probiotic) this is our natural floral that causes candida (candidiasis) over growth of yeast if we have killed the floral wih antibiotics and don't have enough. Garlic and or yogurt with out sugar topically and or orally will also help. Acidolphilus internally and externally as well. Keep it up for a while to replenish the flora and help eradicate the yeast.
I had a friend say once she thought every skin problem was related to candida. She might not be far off. Good Luck

If it's yeast NOTHING will work except a fungicide. Aka a lotrimin cream. Easily available at any grocery/drug store. My son started getting yeast infections as a baby, so we just always used the topical stuff. No idea about a little girl whether you'd do just topical or topical + internal. (We finally figured out he was allergic to wipes, which inflamed the skin, and then the damaged skin would pick up a yeast infection. Oy. Vicious circle.)

You can TRY messing with the PH (vinegar, etc.) but depending on the type of yeast, those can just make it waaaay worse. And if the skin is broken at all, it will burn like fire.

I've tried it all. Gotta get a rx from the doc. That was the only thing that worked.

When my dd gets them, I put on some antifungal cream (jock itch stuff) mixed with desitin. Make sure that you use regular desitin and not the creamy stuff. The creamy stuff burns for some reason. Try to keep her diaper off when you can to air it out.