Wits end with yeast.

hmhiggin

Ok. We've been battling yeast for 3-4 weeks now. I've been alrernating using lotrimin and nystatin. We used disposables for awhile. I've treated my diapers and my cloth wipes. And my wet bags. And my changing table cover.

It was almost gone. Yesterday dd came home from daycare with a nasty patch. It actually looks more like rug burn. But she also still has more red and yeasty looking areas.

I try to do some air time in the evenings but at 16 months, it's hard to contain her to non-carpeted surfaces.

Everybody keeps blaming it on the heat. I'm ready to just switch to disposables for the remainder of the summer. But I don't really want to.

Anyone have any other last resort suggestions?

Oh and I just started her on a probiotic tonight. So we'll see how that works.

princessyetz

Do you have any fitted (no cover) diapers?  You could put her in those without a cover and that would allow her bum to "breathe" for a while while still containing the pee.  BTW, for the diaper to be breathable it needs to be a natural fiber diaper such as cotton.

Also, at daycare do they use gloves for diaper changes?  Do they change the gloves and wash their hands between each child they change?  Could it be cross contamination?

bumpuser5078523

What did you treat your diapers in?

hispenguin

doeie04 said:

What did you treat your diapers in?

Ditto this. I found the only thing that would kill yeast for us was 1/4 cup of chlorine bleach with either GFSE or TTO.
Do you store your cloth wipes dry or wet? If you store them premoistened make sure you bleach out the container that you hold them in as well. We also found that adding probiotics into my daughters diet helped a ton. Another thing we did as a preventative thing was add either GFSE or TTO to our wipe solution (just water), and getting rid of any wipe solution that had lavender in it. I was at my wits end one time and did some research and found that lavender can actually make yeast worse.

Good luck!

hmhiggin

I've been using bleach along with tto and gse. And we store wipes dry. And I make my wipes solution with tto and gse and water.

hst

When my LO had yeast we were told to use a combo of lotramin and hydrocortisone twice a day. I used bleach with my CD laundry for about a month along with TTO, I also put TTO in every load of laundry just to be safe. It all cleared up in about 3 weeks after starting all of that. Good luck.

Rita092010

We always have a terrible time with yeast when cloth diapering -- I think my kiddo is just susceptible to it even though I am able to kill it off in the diapers and on his skin, somehow weeks later it will come back. When we have the start of yeast infections (and preventing) instead of diaper creams we use coconut oil...it is cloth diaper safe and really helps with the yeast. We also do a lot of fitteds without covers and just change really often when we think an infection is starting. We also have a wipes solution that has TTO (baby bum drops). It has kept the yeast away without constantly trying to kill yeast every week...Since we started the coconut oil and baby bum solution, we haven't had any infections. Just another option.

bumpuser5078523

Rita092010 said:

We always have a terrible time with yeast when cloth diapering -- I think my kiddo is just susceptible to it even though I am able to kill it off in the diapers and on his skin, somehow weeks later it will come back. When we have the start of yeast infections (and preventing) instead of diaper creams we use coconut oil...it is cloth diaper safe and really helps with the yeast. We also do a lot of fitteds without covers and just change really often when we think an infection is starting. We also have a wipes solution that has TTO (baby bum drops). It has kept the yeast away without constantly trying to kill yeast every week...Since we started the coconut oil and baby bum solution, we haven't had any infections. Just another option.

Coconut oil made our yeast worse.