Natural treatment for your baby's diaper rash or red buttocks.

Tips from health care professionals and nutrition advisers

If your baby’s bottom is red, hot, sore and has red patches, sometimes bordered by small red dots, on the buttocks, thighs, and genitals, it is diaper rash.

Diaper rash, or diaper dermatitis, is a skin inflammation caused by prolonged contact of the baby’s skin with a diaper soiled by stool or urine. It can also be caused by irritation from the detergent or fabric softener used to wash cloth diapers, or from a substance present in disposable diapers from some brands. Diarrhea can also have this effect.

Sometimes the lesions are infected by a fungus (candidiasis) or by a bacterium (impetigo), for example after antibiotic treatment. The infection can then spread to other areas of your baby’s skin, especially the folds in the neck, groin, between the buttocks, the toes, etc. (intertrigo). Against the popular belief, teething does not cause diaper rash, fever, or diarrhea.

Although minor and usually without serious consequences, diaper rash is painful.

To minimize this condition, following guidelines must be followed;

• Get your baby’s bottom exposed as often as possible.
• Wash your hands and clean your child’s hands after each diaper change to minimize the risk of infection.
• Avoid making him wear diapers that are too tight and plastic panties that prevent air from circulating.
• If you use disposable diapers, try different brands; some are less irritating than others.
• If you can, breastfeed your baby, he/she will be less prone to diaper rash.

Three different natural remdies may be used for this conditions;

First remedy:

• Plant (red on one side) Perilla frutescens ‘Britton’ (Shiso bicolor).
• Black palm kernel oil

Preparation:

You have to take a very large handful of ‘’red on one side’’ wash it very well. Triturate in a small amount of water to obtain a heavy and concentrated liquid. Sieve this liquid and filter it, then add black Manianga (black palm kernel oil) shake this mixture very well, and administer it to the child at the rate of 1/2 teaspoon morning and evening. Give it gently because it often suffocates. With a little of this liquid rub the affected parts on the child. This is until the red buttocks disappear.

Second remedy:

For chronic and hard cases and especially for a baby of 4 months and more. Take a small piece of Ginger, crush it until you get a paste, and add it to 1/2 liter of warm water. Administer it by enema to the child, whether girl or boy. Use the smaller pear in the morning we warmed up, on the first day, then we skip two days we warmed up again… we administer. All 2 times except for any dosage.

The two treatments can be combined if the child is around 12 months old.

Third remedy:

Give 3 drops of Neem oil every morning and evening to the child for 10 days. Anoint the child’s bottom with it at each diaper change.