Disposable diapers clear up diaper rash - why? - Page 2

[Blueone]

I would say it's PUL as well.  My sons rash cleared up in sposies and then came back when we were in cloth.  I experimented a bit and found out synthetic fibers caused the rash and that the PUL just made it worse.  So we use fitteds and wool or prefolds/flats with g-diapers.  G-diapers have a nylon liner and it is as breathable as wool and causes no rashes.  At night we use gdiaper disposable inserts with a hemp or bamboo booster under it because he wakes if he feels wet.  Bamboo velour just doesn't cut it for nights.

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

I find this conversation very interesting. I CD'd my daughter, and now my little guy, and while I knew that disposables definitely kept their bottoms clearer (but at a high cost, IMO), I've never heard anyone say that they found that PUL is a problem. I wonder why there aren't more nylon products out there - I haven't found a nylon pocket at all. I am in the process of buying a couple of Bummis nylon covers, and Kushies makes something they call "taffeta" which is also nylon, but not as good quality, but as far as I know, the only AIO-type with a nylon cover is Bumkins, which I wouldn't say is high quality. I also have a couple of Gdiaper covers that I use with flats but I can see they're not going to last very long in heavy rotation. Has anyone come across any others?

[homew/two]

I'm a big believer in fresh air. If i'm home and going to put my baby down for a bit I try to put her on a towel with a naked bum.  Towels usually gets peed on and has to go to the wash but rarely pooped on. Harder to do now that she snake crawls off the towel.  Baby also spends a fair amount of time with a loose trifold diaper between my lap and her bum but not hooked. Mostly she's in CD and they do get damp from one pee which is sooner than I change her

[Funny Face]

I'm just here to commiserate and second what most posters have said. I cd my older son for a year when all the sudden we started having yeast issues and I couldn't beat them, even after trying what others have posted with the addition of sunning the dipes for DAYS in hopes to get rid of any yeast. So he has been in sposies for 6 months now and so is our newborn son right now too because he already has a rash and I don't want to exacerbate it. 

I have hundreds of dollars of diapers just sitting her looking cute and crying out to be used! So frustrating!

And dh is soooo not on board about going back to cloth because he's gotten use to the laziness of sposies. Some how the huge amount of money we're spending on sposies doesn't seem to bother him!

[mamazee]

What I've found with both my kids (who have both been mainly CD but with periods of DD), is that they get fewer rashes overall when wearing CDs, but if they do get a rash it clears up faster with DDs.  If they get a rash when wearing DDs (which they both did - and horrible ones) then those rashes clear up when wearing CDs.  In fact, that's what got me started on CDs when my oldest child was a baby - recurrent bad diaper rashes that wouldn't clear up.

[Plummeting]

Originally Posted by Cecilia's Mama 

PUL is polyurethane laminated fabric. It's the material that makes most commercial all-in-one diapers and diaper covers waterproof. It's not breathable, though, so babies who are prone to rash get issues because it traps the moisture inside. Fleece and wool are more breathable but less waterproof.

Wool diaper covers don't leak unless they need to be lanolized. I just wanted to put that out there, lest anyone think they'd be trading breathability for dry clothes. That's not the case at all. Fleece covers can have compression leaks, but I'm on baby #2 now and have used nylon, wool, PUL, fleece, specially coated cotton, and every other kind of cover there is, I think. Wool covers will not result in wet clothes unless your diaper isn't absorbent enough, in which case your PUL would leak anyway, or unless you need to add lanolin to the cover. However, in the case of not enough lanolin, you'll know well before you get to the leaking stage that you need to add it, simply by the fact that the outside of the cover will start to feel the tiniest bit damp when the diaper is soaked. I've literally never had a leak with wool, although I've had them with every other type of cover and disposables. :)

[Astrea]

I tried wool (that expensive Danish brand, Lana something) covers (soakers, I guess?) with Willow at night a few times.  I lanolized them well before using, and they were secondhand and had been cared for before that by a knowledgeable mama, but she leaked through them every time.  She never leaked through at night before that (and I used the exact same stuff inside the wool as I used inside her PUL covers), and she never has since, except sometimes in sposies if I forget to double them up.

Are you supposed to use wool with no clothing overtop of it?   

[BathrobeGoddess]

moved to diapering

[dejagerw]

I've noticed rashes when I use too much detergent.  I try to keep a balance between too much (which causes red butt) and too little (which causes stinky diapers).

[Galatea]

I'm on #4 in cloth diapers and we absolutely do not have to use sposies ever.  Here is what works and is important for us:

1.  My kids need stay-dry cloth diapers.  FuzziBunz, Rumparooz and bumGenius one-size pockets are our favorite.  These all have PUL outers but we have no problems at all.  Prefolds will give us a rash, even with wool or fleece covers.

2.  We have to use a cloth diaper detergent.  I have been fine with Vaska, Rockin Green, bumGenius and Allens.  Tide caused the mother of all rashes.

3.  You cannot use a lot of detergent.  We use 1 Tablespoon for 40 diapers.  REALLY.  Almost everyone I see with problems IRL is using way too much or the wrong detergent.

4.  We wash the pocket diaper shells on hot in a separate load b/c they need so little detergent (1 tsp.) and they cannot handle the Sanitary cycle.

5.  We wash the pocket inserts and wipes on Sanitary with 1 Tbsp. detergent and some "free" oxygen bleach.

6.  For both loads, we do two cold rinses and then a hot rinse.

7.  Once a month, I bleach the pocket inserts with 1 Tbsp chlorine bleach as we have well water with no chlorination.

8.  Toddlers need to be changed often, even though they are busy and don't want to be changed.  Toddler pee is stronger and before you know it, 5 hours will have passed and their pee will have given them an ammonia rash.

[coffeegirl]

Just a few tips from my own experience with rashes and CDing with my daughter.

My pediatrician advised us to use disposable wipes, but to rinse them out in warm water before using (to get rid of the soap or fragerance or whatever else is in there). And then, make up a preperation of 1 cup water to one teaspoon vinegar. Dip the wipe in the vinegar water and pat gently to clean the rashy area. The vinegar will kill the yeasties, but it's diluted enough so it won't cause burning or discomfort for your LO. Then apply a prescription yest/rash cream or a very tiny amount of cortaid, topped with some Desitin that's been mixed with cornstarch to form a paste. The paste will keep the medicine in and wetness OUT. Which is what you want.

This advice was all recommended by my doctor and it all checked out when I looked it up for myself online.

Also, I agree with a PP that fresh air-- some nekky, no diaper time helps.

[bcblondie]

We had this problem too. I think it was that I was using too much detergent and it wasn't rinsing completely out. So now I use half teh amount I used to do and have been doing an extra rinse. (but I'll try doing away with the rinse again soon) and no rash! I also bleach every few washes. That's what helped innitially.