Yeast - treating diapers

Mrs. Kata Potata

I didn't see this in the FAQ or in the past few pages, but apologies if I missed it and I'd be ever-so-grateful if someone could link me to a thread about this?

 I have DD in sposies while we're treating her rash and have washed all her cloth on hot with extra hot rinses and grapefruit seed extract.  However, it's taking longer than I expected to clear up the rash itself so, naturally, I would hate to put her back in cloth and have her get re-infected. 

My actual question is this: Should I just bite the bullet and bleach my cloth dipes now or wait and see if the GSE did the trick (and, if not, re-treat both the rash and diapers!)? If I bleach, if this going to destroy my BGEs and precious Sbish?

I have to confess, this was one of my biggest anxieties going into CD'ing and now here I am.  

hispenguin

Whenever we've had to treat for yeast I've had to do bleach in addition to GFSE. You can use oxygen bleach instead of chlorine bleach. Just make sure you're bleaching clean diapers.

 

Megan.10.06

Bleach 'em.  I've had my diapers reinfect my kid from trying to be gentle.  Trust me, it's not worth it!  The diapers were perfectly fine after. 

BrendaLou1969

OXYGEN BLEACH does not kill yeast per my chemist cousin.  You must use chlorine bleach.  I used cloth diapers throughout the yeast battle.  My routine was as follows.  Get nystatin from the doctor.  Use a fleece liner.  Set the fleece liners aside and wash separately from the cloth diapers. 

For washing the cloth diapers, I did a normal wash cycle with Tea Tree oil and Grapefruit seed extract 25 drops of each in the regular detergent dispenser (this kills the yeast spores).   On my regular wash I used 1/4 cup of chlorine bleach in the bleach dispenser - this kills the yeast. And an extra rinse at the end. 

For washing the fleece liners (just buy a yard or two from the remant bin at a fabric store for this - don't pay the big money for fleece liners.   Wash them on a quick wash with tide, bleach tea tree oil and grapfruit seed extract then a normal wash with cloth diaper safe detergent and an extra rinse at the end.  I dried mine in the dryer, but sunning would help kill the yeast also.

Since you only use nystatin 2-3 times a day, use coconut oil as a diaper cream on non nystatin changes.  It has anti microbial properties, and you can get it at most grocery stores.  There is a yeast diaper spray  **NEW** Spritz o? CJ?s BUTTer? unscented yeast formula with sesame and neem oils. Treat yeast rashes the natural way, without having to touch them! I used that occassionally too when she looked too sore to rub anythign else on.

I also took it a step farther and limited my diaper use to certain diapers in my stash (my flips) so My entire stash didn't get contanimated.  Worked like a charm.  It seems like it is a lot of work, but really it isn't.

Mrs. Kata Potata

Sounds like I should get busy bleaching then!  Thanks for saving me some trouble!