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| The silk liner is the strip in the middle, which we've been using with prefold cloth diapers from Green Mountain. |
See, I want to show you a picture of diaper rash so you understand how distressing it can be for a parent. But posting a picture of my infant daughter's pelvis seems like an invasion of her privacy. She may one day be mortified by this enough as it is. I'll just let you google it. When you're done dry-heaving, come on back.
It's not always that bad. But one of my twin girls recently had what looked like popped blisters all over the front of her diaper area. Or perhaps think of the texture of an English muffin, though not quite that covered in holes, #trypophobia. It also seemed red even through my colorblind eyes. Poor thing.
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| I'm going to sell so many muffins with this comparison. You're welcome, Thomas. |
We tried Calmoseptine and other medicated diaper rash creams, we tried giving her as much diaper-free time as we could manage, we tried herbal balms based around calendula and tea tree oil. The herbal balms we use a lot and, combined with cloth diapers, we've had good luck avoiding rashes. But this rash emerged nonetheless and persisted.
Our doctor had nothing to suggest, and we were about ready to call a dermatologist. But then I spied these raw silk diaper liners, which we had bought when our older daughter was a baby. She had hardly any trouble with diaper rash, so I'd forgotten about them. But I remembered them seeming to help her.
I put the silk liner in my baby's diaper when I put her to bed that night. It goes right against the skin. I still included the Calmoseptine; I'm going after this thing with all available firepower, folks. And in the morning, I saw significant healing of the sores and much less redness.
Now look, I can't be sure that it was the silk. It could be that the medicated cream or the other things we'd been doing finally took hold. And I don't have any good scientific rationale for why it would work.
But I can say that we had many days of no improvement, then I put in the raw silk and we saw strong improvement. I can also say that the healing since then has seemed slower when she doesn't get the silk (it has to be washed and dried between uses). So I am going to keep using them, and possibly buy more.
