August 16th, 2011 | 
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Question: Diaper rash from using Pampers with Dry Max?…or something else?
My 9 month old daughter has a rash that only seems to have been brought on by her Swaddlers with Dry Max. We’ve been using the regular Swaddlers since birth with no troubles. Then at 6 months we switched to cloth in the day, Old Swaddlers at night. We were 1/4 of the way through a pack of the new Swaddlers with Dry Max before I noticed a rash one morning last week. I didn’t connect it though, and cut out using the cloth diapers because I wanted to use zinc cream on her bum and creams pretty much destroy cloth diapers.
That’s when I noticed the rash went from so-so to horrible in less than an afternoon. She couldn’t lay down on her back, let alone sit on her bum. She screamed in the bath in pain, and hyperventilated during diaper changes.
I put her in some old school Baby Dry, and it began to make a difference. Although the skin was still broken in some spots on her bum, it didn’t look as red anymore. But the next time I took her to the sitters, I forgot I only had Swaddlers with Dry Max at her house. The sitter said she was fine in the morning when I dropped her off, but as the day went on the rash got worse and worse. She changes her diaper ever 2 hours or sooner if it’s needed, so it’s not that she’s sitting in a dirty diaper for hours. I put her back in the Baby Dry when we got home and almost 24 hours later, she’s back to the “getting better, lots of improvement” stage.
In knowing all of this, it’s also worth mentioning that she cut her 5th and 6th teeth (although she’s never had diaper issues with teething before), and she just finished a round of antibiotics. But the fact that she gets better in one type of diaper and worse with another *really* makes me suspect the diapers over anything else. And nothing has changed in her diet.
What do you think caused it? Also, do you think it’s worth a trip to the doctor, even if it’s gotten better? (I live in Canada so a trip to the doctor doesn’t cost us, and there is a long holiday weekend coming up). And is it even worth my time to bother calling Pampers? I’ve heard they’re very rude and accusing when you call them.
Oh, she actually has a patch of open sores on her bum from this. And I wash her bum often in cool water, and always after a BM.
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Answer by SHANNON J
I’d take her to the doctor…there was a report not long ago that the Dry Max from Pampers is causing chemical burns (not just a rash) on babies yet Pampers is refusing to pull them from the shelf saying it’s the parents and not their diapers…but it’s been countless reports of babies so it’s gotta be the diapers.
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I think it’s the diapers. You say that when you switch back over to the Baby Dry that it seems to get better, and, you also said that teething had never caused any diaper rashes before. I would give a call to the doc’s office and just see if they recommend anything and see if any other patients have called in with the same problems concerning the diapers.
And I would definitely be calling Pampers and giving them a piece of my mind, I don’t care if they are rude or not, I’d be rude right back!
its the new pampers dry max they are causing severe chemical reactions causing severe rashes on babies altough pampers doesnt think the diapers are bad, they are. bring the baby to the doctor they will give you a prescription cream. change her diapers and definitley call pampers. They have not recalled the diapers because not enough people are complaining about the rashes becauses most people arent putting 2 and 2 together that it is the diaper so definitley call them and give them a nice talk because the more complaints the better because it will help get these diapers of shelfs and them to do something about it.
I have heard that the new dry max diapers are causing sever chemicals burns…. don’t use them! My daughter had BAD diaper rash in those diapers but was fine once I switched her out!
I think its a possibliity. There’s been a scare with the new Dry Max diapers. They’re putting some new chemicals in them that is causing chemical burns and rashes. Here’s a link to the article that was in the news. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36972785/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/?gt1=43001
My son developed a rash after starting to use them. He was bleeding on his bottom
And we always change him often! So we stopped using them right away and went to cloth diapers instead. I would stop using them and see if it gets better.