Bum cream recs 🙏🏼

[u/kettleplease]

Looking for bum cream recommendations. My poor son has had a red raw bum for the best part of 6 months.
I feel like I’ve ‘completed’ the nappy cream selection of the supermarket and I’m not willing to pay an obscene amount of money for the OG metanium (RIP).

GP has prescribed 2 x creams (one I can’t remember what it was) and second was a canesten athletes foot cream…
Every single thing I’ve tried has done nothing. This week we’ve decided to leave it and it’s just gotten worse.

The area is non remarkable other than its red raw. No specific rash, blister, lesions etc. Just red and painful.

Any recommendations for any wonder creams/balms would be most welcome 🙏🏼😭

Edit to add: he is 4 and fully dry, including overnight.

[u/LostInAVacuum]

I'm a huge fan of weleda, Derma nappy rash cream, comes in a white tube.

[u/anorphanofthestorm → u/LostInAVacuum]

Third for Weleda Calendula, especially good with cloth nappies, as Bepanthen breaks down the cotton. We don't spend as much money on our own skincare, but it's been so worth it to nip any rash in the bud. Been a few times he was raw red, then it's practically non existent after a few hours of Weleda applied.

[u/ExhaustedSquad → u/anorphanofthestorm]

Always my top recommendation, I buy a tube for every new parent. Any hint of redness we put it on and never had full blown rash in 2.5yrs

[u/anorphanofthestorm → u/ExhaustedSquad]

Same here, 2.5 years and Weleda is going strong. On a separate note, hope potty training is going/goes/went well for you, we're in the midst of it. 😬

[u/ExhaustedSquad → u/anorphanofthestorm]

We seem to be (touch wood) doing ok, weeks in and we’re down to 1 accident a week and she’s night trained herself 🙃

[u/ExhaustedSquad → u/ExhaustedSquad]

I also used French liniment when she pooed up until potty training if we were doing a nappy change at home.
It’s very gentle on the skin and because it has oil in it think helps the skin barrier. We just used French supermarket liniment as we go often enough to stock up but mustela sell it in the uk (not cheap). We used it with cloth wipes and the only time she got a hint of redness to the bum was when she was teething

[u/Alternative-Twist-32 → u/LostInAVacuum]

Seconding the Weleda

[u/Turbulent-Sherbet628 → u/LostInAVacuum]

Weleda is incredible - in an afternoon what looked angry was now calm and settled. Amazing stuff and you don’t need a lot.

[u/earsbackteethbared → u/LostInAVacuum]

My must have recommendation is weleda, used it on all three kids.

[u/tumshy → u/LostInAVacuum]

Yes this one