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Waaaaah. CD mamas, can I vent?
After Ella's persistent, horrible rash, I took your suggestion and did a bleach cycle.
[Background - she'd get a bad rash, it would clear up with lots of cream and sposies, and then within 48 hours of being back in cloth it would come back.]
I think I may have missed one or two dipes that were still in her day care bag, because this week after being in cloth for five days, her rash came back with a vengeance yesterday.
When will this end? I did another bleach cycle with the dipes she wore the last two days, but now I'm paranoid that it's not working.
I'm thisclose to throwing in the towel and switching to sposies permanently.
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Re: Waaaaah. CD mamas, can I vent?
I'm so sorry that you're having to deal with this! It can be so frustrating and you feel so bad for the little buns it's happening to.
I'm sure that you did, but did you make sure to do all the wetbags, wipes, liners, and anything else that you use to CD? If it's yeast, it may be living in those things as well. I even bleached the towels and washcloths that we use to wash and dry her after her bath.
What kind of rash cream are you using? I picked up a GroVia magic stick last weekend and so far it's been working great at keeping away rashes and clearing up minor ones.
I hope it gets better!
My only issue with doing everything is that I'm worried the bleach will ruin the colored stuff (wipes, towels, wetbags, etc).
So when you say "sanitary cycle", do you think my "clean washer/bleach only" cycle is the same thing?
No, the clean washer setting is definitely not the same.
My washer has a separate sanitary setting.
I'm not a CD-er, but can you boil the wet stuff, to disinfect without ruining the colors? This is a total stab in the dark. Experiment before you follow my crazy advice, lols!
Oh, and when we had yeast diaper rash, lotrimin cream (for athlete's foot) worked WONDERS. Have no idea if it is CD safe, though. Seriously cleared it up in a single day of using it!
Poor little bum....
We actually do use Lotrimin underneath the other stuff. It does work!
Lauren, I missed your OP, but have noticed the same thing when I put Stella in the CDs. It is ok to run the covers and insterts through with bleach? It didn't discolor them? I may need to try this!