My daughter got a diaper rash during her second day in the NICU after her birth and ever since it’s been a nonstop battle. I was cleaning her with soap and water for every single diaper change but then that started to make her get irritated and caused the rash to come back. I seriously never let her go more than a couple of minutes in a dirty diaper and I change her diaper at least every two hours for wetness alone. I went to her 2 and a half year visit at the pediatrician and they had samples at the checkout desk. I saw that they had probiotic ointment and lotion, and since I have always suspected that her rashes are the result of some kind of nasty hospital-borne infection that she picked up while there, I was hoping that adding some good bacteria would help. Wow. I have seriously tried EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING- first Desitin, then all the other brands of zinc oxide pastes, then Vaseline, then A&D ointment, then aquaphor. The Aquaphor probably worked the best for the longest, but it would cause clogged pores and breakouts in her diaper area. And even though it definitely helped, any time she had a particularly messy poop, or if she was also hot/sweaty, or if she managed to hide her poop from me for ten minutes, she would have irritation still. It was just better than it would be without aquaphor. But this ointment has been incredible. The first night I used it I saw a huge improvement the next morning. She had been experiencing a breakout from the aquaphor and I saw that was better in the morning AND she didn’t have any of the usual redness from sleeping in a diaper all night. Then the real tests came after her poopy diapers. Almost no redness and no irritation at all. The good bacteria must be out-competing whatever horrible thing she has been battling her entire life now.
