Sudocrem is better than sudoku for solving nappy rash (Sudocrem Antiseptic Healing Cream)

Member Name: whatanoldbag

Product:	Sudocrem Antiseptic Healing Cream
Date:	13/04/08 (581 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap and effective

Disadvantages: makes a terrible mess of the carpet if your toddler gets hold of it

If you are a mother with a child under five living in Britain this product will surely need no introdction. Somewhere in the bit of motherhood-training where you instictively learn certain key facts and can't remember not knowing them but don't ever remember anyone telling them to you, is the piece of mother wisdom that says sudocrem is a nappy change essential item.

Sudocrem is a thick white barrier cream which some people use at every nappy change, but we only use if they is trouble down below. I bought a large-ish 250g tub when my daughter was born (she is now two and a half) and when we went on holiday the August before last we had forgotton to pack it, so bought a smaller 125g tub, as we needed it that week. The larger tub cost, ooh, about £4. My son is now 14 months and he inherited these two tubs, I threw the smaller one away the day before yesterday and have just splashed out a princely £2.45 on another 125g tub, which I fondly believe will see me thruogh to potty training.

It doesn't break the bank then, and a little goes a long way. If you used it at every nappy change obviously you'd use a bit more, but as a treatment rather than prevention it is highly effectively, especially if combined with the usual "nappy off time", frequent changing etc, if baby has a sore little botty.

You can even use it on broken skin, which is very useful. It is mildly antiseptic as well as being a thick barrier cream so treats the probelm whilst preventing it from getting any worse.

If I catch the rash at its first sign, I can put this cream on and expect that by the next change it will be less red and sore looking, and it continue to apply it, the rash is nearly always gone by the morning. Amazing, frankly! But then all you mummies and daddies out there already knew that!

I do occasionaly use it for other things - a bit of eczema for example, and I am reliably informed it is the best thing for crotch-rot, but since I had no wish to be enlightened as to what that actually is, I can only pass that on in good faith and try not to think about it too hard!

In short, what is called "sudoku-cream" cream in our house, as it solves everything, is a little pot of miracle, especially if you are a nappy-wearing baby.

One word of warning; if you get some on the carpet (or more likely, if you change the baby and forget to put the sudocrem immediately out of the reach of small fingers, leave the room to deal with the dirty nappy and come back to discover you little Damien Hirst has been finger painting with the blinking stuff), the stain on the carpet will be barely visible at first, and as the weeks go past, the stain will get darker and more noticable with every passing week and nothing, repeat nothing, will ever ever remove it except actually changing all the carpets or moving house. You have been warned.

Summary: Simply brilliant