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My son’s skin is really sensitive, and sometimes he ends up with some serious diaper rash that even his usual “butt cream” doesn’t help. (He actually says butt cream.) We can’t really afford the $10-a-tube super butt cream that’s supposed to work on tough diaper rash, but my grandma made a suggestion that really worked.
Corn starch.
We have it in the pantry for cooking, so I just put a little bit in a little paper cup and sprinkled it on quite generously wherever he looked red. He loved it! It cleared up the redness in about 24 hours, and the pain was lessened even before that.
Now, even though the diaper rash is gone, he still wants corn starch every time I change him. It’s funny to hear a two-year-old yell, “Corn starch!”
It’s nice to know there’s a cheap, affordable way to treat diaper rash. It’s what my grandma used on her kids before they invented Desitin and other butt creams!
That’s me: Christina Gleason. I’m a writer, editor, and disability advocate. I'm a multiply disabled autistic lady doing my best in this world built for abled people. I’m a geek for grammar, fantasy, and casual gaming. I hate vegetables. I cannot reliably speak, so I’ll happily conduct business over email or messaging instead.
