When using antibiotics, yeast is the most common culprit of diarrea and rashes, so try to remember these tips:
Before rash:
1)You should always try to feed her yogurt to promote healthy bacteria in the bowls and genital area and prevent rashes.
With a rash:
2)STOP USING WIPES or ANYTHING containing alcohol or Zinc (Desitin)it won't help.
3)Bath FREQUENTLY in plain luke to cool water or water with just a SMALL AMOUNT of baking soda or Aveeno (Baking soda neutralizes digestive acids that breakdown skin tissue.)
4)Reduce the amount of acidic foods and dairy products(other than yogurt). Try bananas, rice, plain chicken and other gentle foods that help solidify stool.
5)Ask your Dr. for Nystatin, Silvadine, or talk to your local pharmacist they have wonder potions that are suprisingly helpful.
Good luck!
Are you using the fungal cream all over her rash as well or just on her "girl parts"? When my daughter had a rash so bad it broke skin, the doctor prescribed an anti fungal cream which cleared it up extremely fast. My neice was prone to yeast infections and her mom always used the anti fungal cream on future diaper rashes and it worked very well. Also, if you put some corn starch in the bathwater that also helps. Be sure to wipe her bottom with a warm wet washcloth instead of babywipes too. The wipes will irritate the rash even more and sting her poor little butt. Since my daughter has never had a yeast infection, I don't know if you can use anything else for the rash, but you may want to ask if you can use AD ointment..that stuff works wonders, but if the rash has broke skin then I would just recommend the anti fungal cream...the A+D ointment will make the rash worse.
Good Luck...hope I could help.
Amanda
I had the same problem w/my daughter when she was younger. Unfortunetly, you really can't do much. The one thing that seemed to help my daughter was to not keep a diaper on her at all times and let her 'air dry' because touching her also irritated the area. Also, look at the kinds of foods you are giving her. A lot of fruit, such as oranges and other foods w/high amounts of acid will also irritate her when she poops it out.
My 2 yr old son could not drink fruit juice when he was an infant. One night he broke out into a horrible rash that was as red as strawberries and my neighbor who is a RN came over and told me put my son in a bath of warm water NOT HOT and but disolve baking soda in the water before i put him in... IT WORKED MIRACLES!!! BAKING SODA IN WARM WATER
I would recommend using that Butt Cream it does work well. Air drying is a beautiful thing, but if you are in a time crunch, would you believe that setting a hair dryer on a cool setting works the same way....my Ob/Gyn who cared for my daughter recommened it for my daughter and myself. It reduces the amount of moisture after a bath and reduces the chance of yeast infections.
hi Angi. I too am in Salina KS if i read that correctly about you.. I have a 14mo old son. Anyway My son had severe ear infections well one that lasted from about 5months until he was 8months trying numerous different meds and finally he's got tubes..seems he's taking after me! I had horrible ear infections most my life til my middle school years..and now i'm 29 and glad i am outa that period. lol Anyway one med he was on gave him diarrhea bad and it was Augmentin. Its a very strong nasty medicine. He was given it for ear infections.. well I quit the medicine cause he didn't even want to eat well I called his dr and the dr told me to go to Walmart and go to the pharmacy counter and ask for Alternagel. Its a very potent antacid/sour stomach thing and its liquid and it is adult strength but he told to follow the directions on the back of the bottle so we did. I don't think it helped much and I did what would be a no no to most I gave him a small pinch like 1/4th or 1/2tsp of children's immodium. Never hurt him and it solved the problem. :) as for the rash I just changed his diaper as soon as i was catching on that he did go and i used powder and diaper rash cream i switched on and off. I'm told warm wash rags for wiping are sometimes better then wet wipes when rashes are bad.. and if you're really daring u can let her air out go diaperless a few but i can totally understand you not wanting to either lol. Ok well hope this helps if u wanna catch me i have yahoo msgr [email protected] its also my email address. i have msn msgr [email protected] as well.
Thank you all for the wonderful advice. It is finally gone. Just alittle red still but all clear. Thank you