rashes and dry skin

[nancybaby]

my 5m/o girl has heat rashes on her face and back accompanied with dry skin.she also has red rashes under her chin and around neck.i always put bibs around her neck and changes it as soon as it gets wet due to her drooling but she still gets those rashes.what can i do to stop the dry skin and rashes?

[ponderousmom]

keep a thin layer of vaseline on her at all time--if its in a spot that your worried shell get some in her mouth--use crisco!!!

[proud_mommy]

My doctor said never to use Vaseline on rashes..instead use a fragrance-free moisturizer all over. I use Aveeno on my daughter and i also bought a soothing bath treatment from the same brand to put on her bath that worked pretty well...good luck !

[ponderousmom]

well, your doctor is not very bright because almost every lotion/cream out there is petrolium based--when you use straight vaseline, you dont have any extra irritants.

[family_love]

my boys doctor says use crisco even for their eczema.. :)

[hubbajud]

My grandson would get rashes and we found that he had many, many allergies.  The rashes get worse when his allergies are acting up.  She may not have the strong allergies he did but there may be some foods that are causing an irritation.  Milk seems to be one of the worse offenders.