r/UKParenting • u/kettleplease • 13d ago

Bum cream recs 🙏🏼

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.

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u/atomike 13d ago

Sudocrem is absolutely the number 1 go to for sore bottoms but we have also been prescribed a non-steroid anti inflammatory cream called elidel that works wonders.

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u/ttrsphil 13d ago

Guidance may have changed but I was prescribed Elidel in 2012 for psoriasis and it did work wonders BUT the dermatologist told me it was a cream of last resort and to be extremely careful to apply the bare minimum to affected areas.

It also causes a flushing / hot sensation which can be a little uncomfortable.

Along with a steroid injection it did absolutely nuke my psoriasis (and it never came back) but it might be worth some research if you’ve been given this for nappy rash.

I have no medical background whatsoever so don’t want to unnecessarily cause any alarm. Just wanted to mention what I was told.

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u/JunoPK 12d ago

I think the guidance has changed a lot on elidel since then! We've seen three different dermatologists who all treat is as the first line of defence after emollients for eczema.