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Yeast diaper rash
Yeast diaper rash is a baby rash on the skin under the diaper. Candida yeast grows more easily on moist, warm skin, so can occur in babies and toddlers still wearing diapers. Treatment is an anti-fungal (anti-yeast) powder or cream.
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Yeast diaper rash?
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What are the symptoms of yeast diaper rash and how can you treat them?
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A 27-year old female asked:
How can you tell the difference between a diaper rash and yeast diaper rash? How are they treated?
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A 32-year old asked:
What is the treatment for yeast diaper rash?
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A 43-year old asked:
How can I get rid of my son's yeast diaper rash?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Natural remedies for yeast diaper rash?
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A 24-year old female asked about a male:
How can I get rid of my 1year old sons yeast diaper rash?
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A 45-year old asked:
What can I do to treat my son's yeast diaper rash (thrush)?
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A 32-year old female asked about a male:
My 18mo has had breath that smells strongly of canned corn. Is it just bad breath, or maybe he needs to drink more water, or maybe it's related to his bad yeast diaper rash he's recovering from? or nothing? been that way 5 days now?
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A 34-year old male asked about a male:
How common are yeast diaper rash? Ped said that the slight redness around baby annus with pimples could be yeast. He is on solids now and 9M old.
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A 46-year old asked:
Can you place a drop of baby's oral nystatin on your nipples or the cream nystatin (for his yeast diaper rash)?
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A 30-year old female asked:
My 9 month old had a yeast diaper rash. She also woke up with 2 red bumps by her eye. And now there is about 6 more bumps on her face.What is this?
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A 26-year old female asked:
My ten month old has yeast diaper rash and its resistant to nystatin.What otc can I use? Pediatrician said nystatin is only line of treatment in baby?
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A 27-year old female asked:
My 18 mo old has yeast diaper rash and nystatin hasn't worked at all! Can I use an otc cream for the rash like clotrimazole ?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Can mixture of baking soda/water really get rid of thrush-yeast of baby mouth and nipples? About yeast diaper rash?
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A 30-year old female asked:
I have a 20 month old boy that has yeast infection/diaper rash will desoximetasone cream help it?
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A 34-year old asked:
I have a question about difference between yeast infection or diaper rash?
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A 49-year old asked:
I was wondering is baby diaper rash ointment would help with a yeast infection?
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A 30-year old asked:
Could diaper rash cream cause a yeast infection?
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Will a regular diaper rash cream help a diaper yeast infection?
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A 36-year old female asked about a female:
Can a baby with diaper rash or yeast infection go swimming?
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A 34-year old female asked:
23 month old bad diaper rash that looks like it could be yeast. Can vusion cream hurt if it actually isn't yeast? Has diarrhea and has had air time.
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A 40-year old female asked:
I have a long oval red rash with white film on my butt crack. It looks like diaper rash. It doesn't itch and only burns slightly. Yeast or fungal?
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A 48-year old asked:
Is it ok to use diaper rash cream for a vaginal yeast infection?
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A 32-year old asked:
Docs, could a girl get a yeast infection on the outside of the vagina like a diaper rash?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Nystatin dr gave me is not working for my daughters yeast rash now it looks like she is getting a diaper rash her skin in areas looks scaley and red?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Son may have a yeast infection he has been on amoxicillin now he has a rash on his butt and penis is red swelled up it doesn't look like diaper rash?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Is monsitat 7 safe for infants with a yeast infection? It is not internal. It seems like it went from a diaper rash now to a yeast infection above the vagina?
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A 32-year old female asked about a male:
My 1year old has a bad rash on his bum that doesn't seem like normal diaper rash, maybe not even a yeast rash... it has had a really raw patch for 3 days. Looks more like eczema? He's also had diarrhea almost every diaper for 3 days. Is desitin best?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Have irritated perianal area like a diaper rash-got call from derm saying culture + for staphylococcus/no yeast or fungus- would it have said if mrsa?
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