Re: horrid rash... how do i get rid of it?
Asked by MistyDawn

Question:
 

My daughter-who just turned one year old!!- has a rash on the back of her leg... just behind the knee, and i though it was a heat rash

so I put a bit of powder on there and it didnt help, so i switched to corn starch (that normally works better for rashes)  adn it didnt help, so i tried creams and ointments and  after about of month of trying things with no sucess I tried an antifungal ointment and it seemed to help and it went away almost compleatly and then came back... so i tried the same stuff that worked before, just thinking that i didnt put the cream on long enough. and it went away for about 5-6 days... and it came back... it wont stay gone... ???  even with the ointment on ther untill it is compleatly gone it comes back??  I called the doc and they said that they couldnt do anythign Im not doing so dont bother bringing her in... but this was before the 4th time of it comming back... adn I dont knwo what to do... I dont think there really is anything that teh docs can do and I dont want to waist their time, but I dont know how to fix it or get rid of it... it is now on both legs... after teh first time it only came back on one leg.. but it comes back looking so ugly and bad and it oozes clear stinky stuff???  what do i do? i found something thta works but not permanetly??
 

My Advice:

I'm not really an expert but have been in the same situation.  Please take your little girl to the docters asap.

About 18 months ago my then 6 month old came out with a rash on her back.  It was round, about the size of a 20c piece, red around the outside and weepy in the middle.  I don't personally trust docters so I took her to the chemist instead.  He told me it looked like ringworm and to take her to the docter.  So I did.  They put her on anti fungal cream which worked to start off with but then it seemed to spread.  Then they gave me cortisone cream which I wasn't really happy with.  But by this stage her whole little back was covered in these awful red rashes.  She was unconfortable and constantly in pain.  So I used the cortisone cream and it worked for a while.  I looked up everything I could find on exzema and took all the precautions.  No soap in the bath, washing powder with no perfumes or dyes, and limited the amount of chocolate she ate.  I know this may sound silly, but her rash was worse after eating chocolate.

It eased off for a while but then last summer it came back with a vengence.  We ended up at the dermatologist who gave us another cortisone cream.  Nothing seemed to keep it away for ever.  It just kept coming back.

Through the winter the rash eased off completely to the extent it was gone.

Summer has now hit and we are covered again.  Not so much on her back now but behind her knees.  I refuse to use the cortisone cream anymore because I don't know what damage it is doing to her system.  I have found a cream called RENEW - Intensive Dry Skin Treatment from a company called Melaleuca.  It is the miracle cream.  I use it twice a day on her rashes, in the morning and after her bath.  It sure eases the pain and the rash. 

I know that through the summer she will always have a rash somewhere on her body from the heat, but they say exzema is a 7 year thing and she should grow out of it by the time she is 7years old.

Hope that is of some assistance to anyone.

Kiera