DD2 was hospitalized 10 days ago with a severe bacterial pneumonia that wasn't responding to a half dozen different antibiotics. She had two days of very strong IV antibiotics and injected antibiotics, and came home on more oral ones. So she's recovering now, and her lungs are clearing, and today she's finished her last dose of the last oral antibiotic. But the poor baby (she's 3) has been on eight different antibiotics, two or three at a time, since the the 3rd of this month. She's torn up with diarrhea, and as a result got a diaper rash that is now overrun with yeast.
So we're now ready to start healing her from all the side effects. We're working on gut healing. I know what to do for that-- she's on my SCD diet, (I have ulcerative colitis, so gut healing is familiar for me), she's on lots of live-culture foods and probiotic supplements. But the diaper rash has me stumped. The peds suggest Lotrimin. So I've been using that for three days, with no result. The rash is creeping down her legs and up her belly a bit. She smells like rising bread, or DH says like beer. We're doing all the standard rash stuff, too-- she is daytime toilet trained, so she's running naked all day, and I'm washing the diarrhea off with plain water when it comes, and at night we're putting on a barrier cream with her diaper, and checking and changing her hourly all night.
I know getting her bacteria back in balance will probably help with the yeast a lot, but is there anything else I can do 1. to deal with the yeasty beasties and 2. for pain relief? She's in a lot of pain-- she's been lying on her back on a towel watching TV a lot of the time, because her bum is raw and sore and it hurts even to sit up or walk around.
I feel so out of control. I've never put my kids through something like this before. The hospital was traumatic, there's the constant worry about c. difficile, she's starting to think she's never going to feel "all better," and I just want this all to be over, and this rash is the last hurdle we've got to get over. If you have any advice, I could really use some help. I'm worn out and so is she.
So we're now ready to start healing her from all the side effects. We're working on gut healing. I know what to do for that-- she's on my SCD diet, (I have ulcerative colitis, so gut healing is familiar for me), she's on lots of live-culture foods and probiotic supplements. But the diaper rash has me stumped. The peds suggest Lotrimin. So I've been using that for three days, with no result. The rash is creeping down her legs and up her belly a bit. She smells like rising bread, or DH says like beer. We're doing all the standard rash stuff, too-- she is daytime toilet trained, so she's running naked all day, and I'm washing the diarrhea off with plain water when it comes, and at night we're putting on a barrier cream with her diaper, and checking and changing her hourly all night.
I know getting her bacteria back in balance will probably help with the yeast a lot, but is there anything else I can do 1. to deal with the yeasty beasties and 2. for pain relief? She's in a lot of pain-- she's been lying on her back on a towel watching TV a lot of the time, because her bum is raw and sore and it hurts even to sit up or walk around.
I feel so out of control. I've never put my kids through something like this before. The hospital was traumatic, there's the constant worry about c. difficile, she's starting to think she's never going to feel "all better," and I just want this all to be over, and this rash is the last hurdle we've got to get over. If you have any advice, I could really use some help. I'm worn out and so is she.
