Comments on: Who wants to be a Super Hero? http://www.justheather.com/2006/10/26/who-wants-to-be-a-super-hero/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:01:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MommysDrivel http://www.justheather.com/2006/10/26/who-wants-to-be-a-super-hero/comment-page-1/#comment-861 MommysDrivel Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:14:22 +0000 http://heather.sokols.us/?p=356#comment-861 My youngest has the same problems, sort of. If she eats/drinks anything, even the tiniest amount, that is acidic based (i.e. oranges, strawberries, pineapples, etc) she breaks out in the most horrendous rash on her bottom and down her legs. It doesn't matter if she is wearing a pull-up or using the toilet and wearing regular panties. The rash happens every single time. It takes forever for it to go away unless we use a very specific butt-cream on it. All the others won't work and only make it worse. It's called Flanders Butt Cream - you can get it at any Pharmacy (literally at the Pharmacy window) and it's over-the-counter so you don't need a prescription. It doesn't "burn" or aggravate the rash at all. We put that on and the rash is gone or mostly gone within two hours max. And I'm telling you, her rashes are so bad that it bleeds - literally bubbles and bleeds. So now we are extremely careful with what fruits she eats. She can a small amount of bananas and grapes and pears. Anything else and it's rash hell. When it's rash hell then it's cleaning hell cause laying her down to wipe her bottom and clean her legs when she has a rash just causes the most tremendous screaming episodes. She cries and tries to move away as fast as she can. Sometimes it takes two people to make sure she is cleaned up. (BTW, she doesn't pee down her legs or anything; the rash just spreads on it's own.) Every pediatrician we have taken her to said the same thing: she will outgrow it by the time she is 2 years old. Well, she's four years old now. She still has the same problem and it has not ebbed off at all. Now we are thinking about having her allergy test yet again to make sure she is not truly allergic to fruits. Thank goodness vegetables don't do this to her - she adores vegetables of all kinds! She actually prefers it over chocolate!!! I do hope and pray that the doctors soon pinpoint what is going on with your daughter. It's so heartbreaking to know there is something wrong with your child but not know exactly what it is and how to fix it. Good luck with everything; keeping the prayers coming! My youngest has the same problems, sort of. If she eats/drinks anything, even the tiniest amount, that is acidic based (i.e. oranges, strawberries, pineapples, etc) she breaks out in the most horrendous rash on her bottom and down her legs. It doesn’t matter if she is wearing a pull-up or using the toilet and wearing regular panties. The rash happens every single time. It takes forever for it to go away unless we use a very specific butt-cream on it. All the others won’t work and only make it worse. It’s called Flanders Butt Cream – you can get it at any Pharmacy (literally at the Pharmacy window) and it’s over-the-counter so you don’t need a prescription. It doesn’t “burn” or aggravate the rash at all. We put that on and the rash is gone or mostly gone within two hours max. And I’m telling you, her rashes are so bad that it bleeds – literally bubbles and bleeds. So now we are extremely careful with what fruits she eats. She can a small amount of bananas and grapes and pears. Anything else and it’s rash hell. When it’s rash hell then it’s cleaning hell cause laying her down to wipe her bottom and clean her legs when she has a rash just causes the most tremendous screaming episodes. She cries and tries to move away as fast as she can. Sometimes it takes two people to make sure she is cleaned up. (BTW, she doesn’t pee down her legs or anything; the rash just spreads on it’s own.)

Every pediatrician we have taken her to said the same thing: she will outgrow it by the time she is 2 years old. Well, she’s four years old now. She still has the same problem and it has not ebbed off at all. Now we are thinking about having her allergy test yet again to make sure she is not truly allergic to fruits. Thank goodness vegetables don’t do this to her – she adores vegetables of all kinds! She actually prefers it over chocolate!!!

I do hope and pray that the doctors soon pinpoint what is going on with your daughter. It’s so heartbreaking to know there is something wrong with your child but not know exactly what it is and how to fix it. Good luck with everything; keeping the prayers coming!

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