help! wicked nappy rash

Kaleb has had a pretty nasty looking nappy rash for the last week. He has never had it before and the redness seems to be spreading .
When it was just a tiny amount I used Sudocream but then it got worse so tried bepanthen(?) and seemed to get a little better but still spread. I also have a zinc&castor oil cream, the ecostore one and a cocoa butter one. Which one would you recommend? (Oh also tried curash at beginning too but he was redder afterwards)

We use the J&J nappy liners in his nappies and have always used Ecostore washing powder (tried Next Generation last week but went off when rash started). If I use wipes (usually only with poo ) they are always the sensitive ones - and we use the Huggies sensitive bath wash. All things we have been doing all along.
At every nappy change (every 3hours max in day) I give him some nappy off time (except night) then I wipe him down with a wet cloth and dry off before applying more cream. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. HELP!

The only new thing I think it could be is the fact he is now taking 2.5ml of lactulose a day and that this could make his urine stronger? Could it be this? Or the start of teething?

What else can I do to get rid of it? Is my only option to go to doc?

jade used to get terrible nappy rash- we were using baby wipes too and stopped, started to use wet musliny type cloth. i also swear by cornflour- it works really well. i find that kayla gets really bad nappy rash when she is teething so it could be possible if there are no other changes- or maybe kaleb is just getting sensitive to something? hard to say- could it be a thrush type rash? maybe go to your doctor and get it checked? jade had to get micreme a few time when she was a baby to help hers.
all the best- it is soooooooooo awful when their little bottoms are sore breaks my heart when i see them in pain from it. i hope kaleb's bottom feels better soon xxoo

i dont know how old your bub is but maybe more frequent changing and nappy off time... and i agree about the wipes and maybe stop putting stuff in his bath water for a while too...and yeah get the docs to have a look in case it isnt ordinary old nappy rash.

Yep, take him to doc.

When Han had a bad rash I had to cut out all wipes and soapy stuff. I used bepanthen and gave her heeeeeaps of free bum time.

Curash seemed to do good things too... the powder.

I hope you get it sorted soon! Poor little man.

We used disposables for a couple of days last week so I could wash all his nappies in the Ecostore powder and give them heaps of sunlight. Rash still continued to 'spread'. Used a sposie last night too to try again and still very red this morning.

i totally sympathise with you here!!! charli has had a nasty butt rash for weeks now. it was just starting to get better after the last flare up when her bottom teeth came through, now her top ones are almost here so the red rash is back with a vengence

we've tried 3 different creams from the drs and none of them really do anything. i give her plenty of nappy free time, use cloth wipes only, she's had a week in sposies with no change, i always use barrier cream yada yada yada.....

maybe kaleb is getting some teeth soon and that's why it's flared up?? i hope you have some joy at the dr's, it's no fun for bubs or mum

We were going to try Kaleb on solids this weekend but decided against it until we know what may have caused the rash. He is bottle fed and has been on the same formula for a while now.
We are booked into docs this afternoon so I hope the creams work for us!

Well doc didn't think it was that bad - he started to tell me about some that are weepy and crusty so I guess I'm glad I took him before it got any worse. He gave me a script for Micreme and I've just put it on Kaleb. Hopefully won't take too long for it to clear up. He did suggest it might be the brand of disposable we're using at moment (feel pretty guilty coz we've used a few over the last week while we washed all his nappies, overnight...). He did say it probably isn't the lactulose i.e. he's never heard of it causing a rash but who knows

We have always had a tube of micreme on hand, actually we had micreme-H which is a touch stronger, & yep we have had the weepy, crusty, & sometimes bleeding rashes which ar not very comfortable for our babies wee bums but always found within 1-2 applications it had started to clear.
You can also use some barrier cream over top of the micreme

Good luck hope he gets better soon

A bit late, but if he reacts to the curash it could be he is sensitive to zinc. We found out the hard way that Lily was - a bit pink one day, put zinc cream on it as reccomended, skin was red raw the next. Didn't realise for ages it was the cream so was using Daktozin which is zinc based, along with the doctors stuff and of course it didn't get better!. Now we use bepanthen and it works as it isnt zinc based - I know i didn't work fully for you, but ti may pay to stay away from zinc based creams in the future as a preventative.