How do I know if it's yeast?

girl-23

My boy has a bit of a rash on his bum and inner thighs that hasn't gone away (but has gotten better, then worse again) over the past few days. I use a tiny bit of cloth diaper safe ointment on it. I did the worst thing possible and looked it up on google - now I think it might be yeast rash. If it is, how do I know for sure? And also, what can i get to put on it? FWIW, he isn't bothered by it/it doesn't hurt him when I touch it. Thanks!

Copernicus08

Have you tried putting a non-CD safe cream on it to see what happens? Try that with a fleece liner or just in a disposable for a day or two. If it clears up, then it was just regular rash. If it doesn't budge, then you might have yeast. I would call the ped for confirmation and get a prescription cream. When we had yeast, I tried all the "natural" remedies but nothing touched it except for the script. Believe me, you don't want to mess around with yeast beasts for longer than you need to.

katie4253

It is raised and is in colonies (patches).

If you even think it might be yeast and you are BFing I'd get into the OB and pedi asap.  You don't want thrush.  

Bonnesetter27

My pedi called it angry red dots, which is exactly what it looks like. I have no idea if it is cloth safe(we were still using sposies) but we used lotrimin to clear it up. The dr. also gave us a sample of a cream-vusion. Even still it took awhile to clear up.