This is me talking with my mother's hat on, not my LC hat.  My 3rd baby
suffered with 'burnt bottom'.  Amongst the advice I got was that I was
eating too many tomatoes (maybe I was, I can't remember now).  Anyway she
suffered 'colic' with my or her intake of dairy products.  I wasn't
scrupulous with avoiding dairy, so that was what I think caused the nappy
rash. It appeared to be the urine that caused the problem, not the bowel
action.  Leaving her without a nappy certainly helped, as did those
specially woven cloth nappy liners which keep the skin dry - they're call
Bobaby's here in Australia (no I don't have shares in the company - wish I
did, they're great).  Even at age 4 and 5 she would get colic if she'd eaten
dairy - the only thing that cured the nappy rash was being toilet trained.

Back to being an LC:  I was disappointed to see the reference to the only
way to treat sore nipples is by moist wound healing - makes me think we have
another multinational saying you can't breastfeed without our product :-(
Whatever happened to frequent application of breastmilk, airing, etc.
Before you all flame me, the quote was the treatment of sore nipples, not
gouged, raw, open wounds - maybe they require moist wound healing - and
hopefully with increasing skills in attaching babies they will become
exceptionally rare or non-existent.  I, personally feel that sore nipples
and even cracked nipples where the crack isn't 'open' between feeds do best
with good attachment and allowing breastmilk to dry on the nipple.

Denise
Brisbane, Australia

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