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I have been fighting a rash for the past for about a month and I finally think I'm getting a handle on things. It started out as a heat type rash and developed into a yeast type rash. I have been lucky and the past three years I have only had one other rash and it cleared up with n about tow or three days.
Where I messed up was first not recognizing it had become a yeast rash and the stopping the antifungal treatment too soon. Also I had a friend sing the praises of cornstarch and I gave that a try. I learned after being forced to see my primary doctor that cornstarch is great for comfort but will feed a yeast rash and make things much worse.

Moral of the story, pay attention to your body and practice preventative measures to keep rashes away.
I can only hope that I cot my cloth diapers clean enough to use agaoin with out reinfecting myself.

Persistent rash can be a bear for us. It can cause intense itching, which makes functioning in public difficult. I suggest Clorox as a way to kill any offending fungal spores in your diapers. Good luck.

Thanks Patrick,

As for my cloth diapers, I have been scouring the internet for the best way to clean them to make sure I don't reinfect myself. What I ended up doing, was to wash them as normal. Then I began the stripping process which was to wash them again but with a little bit of Dawn dish detergent and washed with water as hot as I could get. I ended up dumping three pots of boiling water in to the washer. Then washed again but with a half a cup of bleach and again the three pots of boiling water was added. Then rinced about three or four time to make sure it was all out. I hope that got it all but time will tell once I can use them again.

Rope_Wrench,

How could you tell that it had become a yeast rash? What are the indicators?

--John

It did not respond to typical treatments, and got red and kind of blotchy. Also the fact I had to go to my GP and she said it looked like a classic case. It had gotten very itchy and a bad burning feeling. Only other way to describe the discomfort is like poison ivy down there. Just I did not have the blisters like with poison ivy.

I hope the extra attention you paid to yoour diaper laundry will pay off, and that the prescription cream will do its duty.

I've gotten that sort of rash before. First time was on college, and it wasn't diaper related, it was related to working a job with polyester shorts. They chafed, and I only had 2 pair, so they didn't get washed every time. I was embarrassed, and didn't go to the doctor, and it got BAD. I tried diaper rash creams, jock itch creams, athletes foot creams, peroxide, rubbing alcohol ... nothing worked. I finally went to the doctor when I could hardly walk, and he gave me a steroid cream that cleared it up in a few days.

When I started wearing diapers again a few years ago, I got a similar rash. I showed my doctor, told him about the cream I'd had in the past, he prescribed a steroid and antifungal.