Natural Creams to Treat Yeast Rashes
Last week, I decided to try the Nature Clean detergent for washing my daughter’s diapers. I usually use soapnuts, but I really wanted to find something that I could just throw in and forget about until the wash was done. I chose Nature Clean because it had been recommended to me by some cloth diapering moms and because it’s available in my supermarket store. Well, things didn’t go too well. My daughter got a diaper rash due to detergent residue which eventually turned into a yeast rash. I wasn’t impressed, to say the least.
When my daughter was a couple months old, I discovered that most diaper rash creams do not work on yeast rashes. An anti-fungal cream, which you can get without a prescription in any pharmacy, works well. I prefer to use natural creams though. So, this time I used the Substance Nappy Rash Ointment and an Antimicrobial Salve that I just got recently from a wonderful lady at Wildroot Botanicals. By themselves, the rash ointments didn’t work very well, that’s why I added the antimicrobial salve. Besides using the creams, I would also use bamboo fleece fitted diapers with or without a wool cover. I’m happy to say that the rash was almost completely gone within 24 hours!
How have you dealt with diaper rashes? Do you have any “secret” remedies that you’d like to share?
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Breastmilk! Seriously. I keep a little stash of it to help with diaper rash if our little lady gets one. I like that you link to a cream that works on yeast rashes though, that’s awesome. Definitely will keep it in mind.
Hi Tatiana!
I’ve actually heard that before, but never tried it myself.
Motherlove Diaper Rash & Thrush is also a good cream for yeast rashes, but it’s a bit more expensive I believe.
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