Home remedies · Children & infants
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Change often, clean with water rather than wipes, let air get to the skin as often as possible, apply a thin layer of zinc ointment.
Moisture and friction are the cause, not a lack of cleanliness. Air is the most effective remedy there is, zinc keeps the next moisture off.
A yeast infection looks similar but needs something different — sharply bordered red patches with small satellites beside them.
No powder — it clumps and gets inhaled. With open areas, blisters, fever or no improvement after three days: see a doctor.
At once: any fever in an infant under three months, a child who is apathetic or has stopped drinking, skin bleeding that does not fade under pressure, breathlessness or drawn-in ribs. A first seizure is always looked at. Refusing to drink for hours counts for more than the temperature.