"Diaper dermatitis" refers to a skin rash that occurs in babies or infants who wear diapers.
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With consistent use of WRAPO, she has seen significantly
less diaper dermatitis in the NICU, especially in the Neonatal Abstinence / opiate withdrawal population where the problem is most prominent.
Most obviously in the short term, babies left in soiled diapers
develop diaper dermatitis (diaper rash) and urinary tract infections.
Furthermore, for those families in the study who practiced «stretching diapers» (i.e. using a soiled diaper multiple times), more doctors visits and emergency room visits per year were reported for cases
of diaper dermatitis and UTI's in young children.
Diaper dermatitis (pediatric).
In
diaper dermatitis, urine and feces irritate the skin.
In an effort to decrease and prevent neonatal suffering due to persistent
diaper dermatitis, Earth Mama worked with a veteran NICU Nurse Manager to develop the WRAPO Diaper Protocol for Diaper Dermatitis.
Different types of
diaper dermatitis have different symptoms.
In most cases,
diaper dermatitis is a type of contact dermatitis.