Terrified Dad

The scourge of nappy rash visited our house last week.

The bottom of my poor son looks as if it has been napalmed! One minute he was fine, a bottom as fine as a peach and absolutely no complaints, the next it would have given a mating female baboon a good run for her money in a “whose bottom is reddest” competition.

So, I search the interwebs, post on forums and read all I can looking for something that will soothe my infant’s suffering… and, as you can guess, there is a whole host of medications designed for just the task.

Cream after cream we tried and nothing seemed to work until, during a phone conversation with my sister in law she suggested egg white! “It’s what my mother used and it’s what I used on all three of my children. Never mind with those fancy pants creams that will cost you a fortune, egg whites are what you want. Spread it on, let it dry and then stick his nappy on.”

And so it was with great trepidation that I tried the egg white nappy rush miracle cure…. and it turned out to be just that! Within 48 hours the nappy rash was all but gone. The only downside was that every time my son broke wind during this time I was positive someone nearby was making an omelette!

My mistake was not to remove the shells!