dad than peeling back a diaper to reveal a bright red, spotted baboon butt.

Daddy Brad: Today's episode is all about diaper rash.

Daddy Clay: So to get the full 411 on diaper rash prevention and causes, we spoke to our

favorite pediatrician and Baby 411 author, Dr. Ari Brown.

Dr. Ari Brown: Diaper rash is an irritation of the skin when it's been wet or soiled.

If you sat in a wet or poopy diaper, your skin would probably get irritated too. So

garden variety diaper rash is just red. If you put some cream on it, any type of barrier

cream, whether it be Vaseline or a zinc oxide based product like Balmex or Desitin, that

should do the trick. It should start to get better and as long as you're staying on top

of diaper changes, keeping moisture away, it should clear up on its own. Yeast diaper

rash is a little bit different. It looks like raw meat with little pimples around it. And

that's not going to get better with your regular diaper rash cream and so that, you actually

need an anti-fungal cream for. Brand name will be Lotrimin AF, it'll say it's for jock

itch, but it treats the same stuff because yeast is very similar. So you use that which

is an over the counter product and it should get better on its own. But in either case,

if the rash is not improving in the next few days after you have been treating it, that's

when you need to call your doctor. If your child is really sensitive to moisture or poopy

diapers, then you can put a barrier cream on the skin. Anything to protect the skin

really works well so Vaseline or any basic diaper rash cream should do just fine. Just

put it on at every diaper change and then you can protect the skin. For disposable diapers,

the advantage is your child might have a wet diaper and there might not be as much moisture

on the skin. But if you don't stay on top of a disposable diaper and the child's been

sitting in a wet diaper for a while, the problem is still the same. Some children are actually

sensitive to some brands of disposable diapers and so sometimes kids will come in with some

irritation, not in the genital area, but actually along the sides where the elastic is on the

disposable diaper or where the tabs are and if that problem arises, then you actually

may need to change brands or go to cloth diapers. One thing parents should know about is that

when their baby is taking antibiotics, it leaves them susceptible to getting a yeast

infection in the diaper area. So if your child has been on antibiotics recently or is still

taking antibiotics and your baby develops a rash and it looks a little different that

your usual diaper rash that you've seen before, that's when you should think about it being

a yeast infection. When garden variety diaper rash heads really south, where the skin gets

so raw and irritated that maybe it's even bleeding, that's when you need to call the

doctor because it's possible that you need a prescription antibiotic cream or a thicker

cream that they can prescribe to put on that diaper rash.

Daddy Clay: Some really good points there from Dr. Ari Brown and I agree. I would say

there's more than just two kinds of diaper rash. I mean there's like sub-categories and

multiple branches of the diaper rash tree. Daddy Brad: Yeah. The inferno is the worst.

The other day, I peel back the diaper, poor little Myers, steam coming out. Steam.

Daddy Clay: I'm not sure that's going off a diaper rash. But you can tell there's just

redness, there's the spreckles, there's sometimes it looks like a burn. It's almost like when

you have that newborn and you kind of can categorize the poop. I think you can categorize

a diaper rash as well. Daddy Brad: Lava.

Daddy Clay: You know what, that's all for this week in The Lab. If you've got thoughts

on diaper rash prevention, stories about baboon butt in your family, join the conversation

at DadLabs.com. Daddy Brad: You know baboon butt, my aunt

had that. But it wasn't about diaper rash, it was just kinda wide.

Daddy Clay: We'll see you next week here in The Lab.

Daddy Brad: Really wide. Daddy Clay: Why are you? That's not nice.

She watches the show. Daddy Brad: I'm sorry.