Rash and Diapering Questions

[Theia]

Hi. My DD is 2 and has had a yeast rash on her little bum for several months. During the time this first occurred I was w/o internet access and went it alone with the ped, who told me that she would have this rash until she was out of diapers. I was told to treat it with the Lotrimin anti-fungal creme and have been doing that. It goes, and comes. But lately has been more persistent, and it is painful for her, cuz she tells me when I do diaper changes and she says "hurt" when I wipe her. We've been using disposables because CD wasn't really an option for various reasons earlier in her life.

The background is: We were going great with part-time EC until around 9mos, lots of catches. Then our world was upended and I stopped. We continued to communicate about 'potty' by ASL, and now she tells me (verbally) sometimes when she pee's in her diaper and always when it's poo. I started giving her lots of diaper free time so her skin could breath after the rash showed up. I thought maybe she was ready to resume potty learning. But she started holding her urine until I would diaper her again, for 5 hours at a time even. So after it was suggested she might not be ready for PL yet, I've backed way off on the diaper-free time. Which leaves us with this persistent rash. The diaper free time helped with the rash and was part of my motivation to get her out of diapers.

I just want to get rid of this rash, really that is my main concern. I am finally in a situation where we could actually CD. But I don't know where to start there, or if we should even switch. What should I do?

[fruitfulmomma]

Have you tried treating the yeast internally? Things I would do would be getting good bacteria into her system through probiotics and also limiting her sugar (and yours if she is nursing) to a bare minimum as yeast thrives on it.

Externally, you could try gentian violet. I haven't tried it myself but many people say it works well for them, except it does stain things purple.

[Theia]

She doesn't get much sugar. She gets some juice, today we are eating cornbread that I put sugar in. But generally, we don't get much sugar in our diet. We aren't nursing if that makes a difference. I also try to get yogurt or kefir in her diet daily. It's always some version of sweetened though. I don't eat plain yogurt, and am pretty sure she wouldn't either. So I guess we aren't sugar-free. But it's so darn hard to completely escape that stuff!

I'll look around to see where I could get gentian violet. Thank you fruitfulwomb.

Keep the suggestions coming though.