Hey everyone, so in today's video we are going to talk about how we treated our son's diaper rash naturally. Here we are first time parents. We bring our son home from the hospital and like a week in he starts forming a diaper rash and we're like oh no this isn't good what do we do? So I started putting this calendula sap on that I have that I made homemade previously to help with that because I read that calendula is really good for rashes. Helped a little bit but things still were kind of getting worse. I've been in the baby over here. Very chatty little point. So things started to get worse. I ended up ordering a diaper rash cream but that took like a good week to come in. So in the meantime I was trying all these other things. I was trying coconut oil. I was trying homemade wipes with just water. I was told you know it's good to keep the area dry so we were using homemade baby powders so just some arrowroot to keep the area dry. That seemed to help a little bit but it was hard to keep it dry because as newborn they're just constantly going poo and pee so that was a little bit difficult. Diber rash cream finally comes in and use that. That seems to help. The things just persisted and we're getting worse. And then I also realized that the diaper rash cream has a great constant ingredient in it that is not ideal. Zinc dioxide which is a heavy metal. It did a lot of products like makeup sunscreen, a lot of diaper rash creams and it's a heavy metal so didn't want to continue to put that on him especially because it's near an opening area that would get into his body. So things were getting worse and you know he was constantly crying when he was going to the bathroom so we know he had a tummy ache plus the diaper rash was probably affecting when he would go to the bathroom because the rash started forming around the opening of his bottom and it would it had like these it was like raw starting to look very raw with like open swords and I was like this is really unusual because when I think of a diaper rash I think of just like rashing on their their butt cheeks you know where like the diaper is like touching but he was getting this you know painful looking rash right around his opening. So I look into it more and then it turns out there's different types of diaper rashes and some are bacterial and then it just clicked and I was like you know what I bet this is strapped because what we've learned from medical medium is that strapped can cause all sorts of health issues internally and externally can cause things from acne to stomach issues to UTIs to stives on your eyes and to rashes and I was like I just I haven't feeling that this is a rash he's starting to get you know a lot of stomach issues and I feel like he's like got some strep stuff going on especially because I know that that's something that I've been trying to get rid of from my body because I've struggled with my acne you know and as a kid I had a lot of ear infections and that strep so I know that that's something that I've been trying to rid from my body and it's most likely affecting him. Elderberry Serp kits are here. 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Plus we knew that there was something we could use naturally to treat this. So I constantly was praying about all his health issues and just you know seeking guidance from God and the angels and Jesus and one day all of a sudden it just popped in my head let's try aloe and I told that and he's like oh my gosh yeah why didn't we think of that. So we got into the store and got fresh aloe leaves and would cut them up daily to apply to his rash and sure enough it started to get better. It took some time I'd say it took a good like six weeks for it to completely go away but it slowly lessened and he was getting some relief which was exactly what we needed. So this is what I did every single day to treat the rash. I would first I used homemade wipes so I got these like dry bamboo wipes. Squirt bottle with water and I would just you know squirt the wipe with the water to wipe it down just in case you know the store bought wipes which are a good natural wipe but just in case that those were irritating in any way. I'd wipe it down and then I would take a cotton reusable wipe to dry the area down to keep it dry. And then I would take the little chunk of aloe you know I daily like I said I'd have it daily by his diaper changing station to fresh aloe. I'd take the little chunk and then wipe it around the affected area and then I'd let it dry a little bit before I put the diaper back on and then I put the diaper back on and I would do that every single diaper change. And then at least once a day I would do a warm booty so I would call it to where it would just help kind of clean the affected area. I would eat up some warm water and then stick them in a little bowl you could do it in a bath too. Stick in a little bowl it was really relaxing for him and then it would just help like kind of clean the area on a daily basis and then there were times where I would just kind of let it air out. So when I changed his diaper I might let him hang out let it air out. Other times I might just keep the diaper off kind of have like a towel wrapped around him walk around and just let it air out a bit as well that way it wouldn't always be tracked up in the diaper. Another thing that was really great about the aloe is you know once you apply the little gel it's all like wet and goopy but then it dries which is great because then it helps keep the area nice and dry and it's not like an ointment or an oil where it's gonna stay wet until you wipe it away. And we knew it did this because sometimes I'll put the aloe like on my face as like a face mask and when it does it dries up really hard until you wipe it off. So that was a really great thing for applying it to his rash and keeping it dry. And some other techniques that we did was I would eat the aloe internally because aloe when you take it internally it actually helps things much better than if you were to apply it so if you ever get a sunburn you should eat some aloe gel from a fresh aloe. You don't eat the aloe gel from the bottle but you put on your skin this is something that you buy in the grocery store but that can really help the rash if you're nursing your baby through your breast milk. And then we started giving him a little tiny drop of zinc and B12 to also help fight the strap because that's another way you're finding strap even if it's like a skin issue. Internally you know helping your immune system is gonna be the best way to fight things. He was he was probably like a month old you know I don't think we did the zinc in B12 right away but he's probably like a month old when we did the little drop of the Vimer G zinc and B12. That's the supplements we use. So he's probably two months old once the rash was finally gone and when that happened we still continue to give him the zinc in B12 and he still takes it to this date to help with his immune system on a daily basis. Okay guys I hope that this was helpful if you have any questions be sure to let us know and below we'll link some of the things I talked about in this video so it can help you if you are in the same boat as we were and we'll see you guys next time.