Avoiding Baby Diaper Rashes

• Keep your baby clean and dry. Use highly absorbent diapers that keep the baby skin dry. Change your baby’s diaper soon after every bowel movement.
   
• When diaper rash begins to develop, tie the diaper loose. Diapers that are too tight rub against the baby’s soft skin and don’t allow the skin to breathe.
   
• While changing the diaper, clean your baby’s skin with unscented wet wipes or warm-water-soaked cotton balls, pat dry or air dry it, and follow with a diaper cream or ointment. A diaper cream or ointment having zinc oxide forms a barrier against moisture and therefore helps the irritated skin to heal faster.
   
• Give your baby some time without the diaper. Whenever possible, lay your baby with the bottom up, without a diaper, on a clean towel with a waterproof pad underneath. Fresh air will help the skin to breathe well and heal the rash sooner.
   
• Just in case you use cloth diapers, use color- and odor-free detergents for washing them. Also, when your baby has diaper rash, avoid putting plastic or rubber pants over the cloth diapers because plastic or rubber does not allow sufficient air to pass through.
   
• Last but not the least, before and after changing diaper for your baby, properly wash your hands.
   
• If the diaper rash worsens or lasts for more than three days even after adopting the ways mentioned above, seek help of your child’s doctor—it might be a fungal infection, which requires medical intervention.

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