I feel SO bad for my little guy! This isn't a little diaper rash either...it's from diarrhea caused by the antibiotic they gave us for his ear infection (despite also being given a probiotic to help counteract the medicine).
We're slathering him in ointment (both A&D and Desitin) and also started using the cloth diapers I used as burp cloths when he was little - prefolds that barely seem to fit him - and are going to try leaving the diapers off after he goes to the bathroom to let him dry up all the way. I don't know what else to do for him! We only started using the cloth tonight so I guess it wasn't long enough to really make a difference. We couldn't leave him in them overnight because we don't have any sort of cover and he would have just leaked through. I read where leaving disposables looser will help get some air circulating (I'm not really sure how) and we put him in a larger size overnight anyway....I just don't know that it's going to do any good. He's also going to be at daycare tomorrow so he'll be in disposables all day. I'm hoping leaving him in cloth all day Thursday will help out a lot.
And we're only 4 days through the antibiotic. 6 more to go so the rash isn't going to get better soon.
He's still SO fussy. I have NO idea if his ears are getting better and the rash is bothering him now, or if the rash has just added to his discomfort. I know the teeth (I *think* two) coming in on top of everything else really isn't helping a damn thing. v The good thing is he's been doing REALLY well sleeping through the night. 5:45, 6:00, and 4:00 the last 3 nights with NO waking up needing his pacifier or wanting to nurse or ANYTHING! Not a peep! The first couple nights I kept obsessively checking on him, but he's been fine so last night I wasn't as bad. I don't know if the pain is wearing him out or it's because we put the humidifier IN his room to help with the congestion. I'm leaning toward humidifier because he got so used to sleeping with a fan running in his room all summer and before that we were in the basement and always had a space heater going.
I'm going to bed now. Early day tomorrow :(
We're slathering him in ointment (both A&D and Desitin) and also started using the cloth diapers I used as burp cloths when he was little - prefolds that barely seem to fit him - and are going to try leaving the diapers off after he goes to the bathroom to let him dry up all the way. I don't know what else to do for him! We only started using the cloth tonight so I guess it wasn't long enough to really make a difference. We couldn't leave him in them overnight because we don't have any sort of cover and he would have just leaked through. I read where leaving disposables looser will help get some air circulating (I'm not really sure how) and we put him in a larger size overnight anyway....I just don't know that it's going to do any good. He's also going to be at daycare tomorrow so he'll be in disposables all day. I'm hoping leaving him in cloth all day Thursday will help out a lot.
And we're only 4 days through the antibiotic. 6 more to go so the rash isn't going to get better soon.
He's still SO fussy. I have NO idea if his ears are getting better and the rash is bothering him now, or if the rash has just added to his discomfort. I know the teeth (I *think* two) coming in on top of everything else really isn't helping a damn thing. v The good thing is he's been doing REALLY well sleeping through the night. 5:45, 6:00, and 4:00 the last 3 nights with NO waking up needing his pacifier or wanting to nurse or ANYTHING! Not a peep! The first couple nights I kept obsessively checking on him, but he's been fine so last night I wasn't as bad. I don't know if the pain is wearing him out or it's because we put the humidifier IN his room to help with the congestion. I'm leaning toward humidifier because he got so used to sleeping with a fan running in his room all summer and before that we were in the basement and always had a space heater going.
I'm going to bed now. Early day tomorrow :(
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