help with working out rash? what could it be?

[Baa Bum Mum]

I am not sure if it was where to put it so mod feel free to move it :)

I knitted some longies for a partially TA child (3 years) and they were embellished etc. The wool is a soft merino and the child has been wearing them out and about for about a month now.

His mother said she the other day he wore these longies during the day and the to bed at night (which normally he doesn't do) with an AIO underneath

The next morning he woke up and where the longiew eer touching it looks like mini bites, between legs around top of thighes, top of back. The longies were not wet and the nappy had not leaked. basically everywhere the nappy wasn't.

Can you help me work out what could have caused it?

with wool allergies he should have reacted earlier right? could it be a wool allergy?
they were treated with a scented lanolin so perhaps with sweat that could have triggered a reaction?
anyway that something mite like could be inside them? (she described them as tiny bites)


could love some help with this? she would be rather devastated if it was a wool allergy, as she recenty taken up knitting to make him longies?

[trishshack]

It could be the scent from the lanolin. Have the recently been washed? What does she use to wash them with. It could also be eczema.

[Baa Bum Mum]

well they haven't been washed yet? she has wool wash (scented again)

I was thinking scent too, I guess she culd just eliminate the possiblities?

[twouglyducks]

If it were around the outside of his diaper, but not covering his entire legs, I'd be leaning towards it being the outer layer of the AIO causing problems.

[pmcgary]

The upper leg thing had me thinking it might just be a heat rash...but don't know with the back...

I agree with the pp that it might be the outer layer of the AIO

[Baa Bum Mum]

If it were around the outside of his diaper, but not covering his entire legs, I'd be leaning towards it being the outer layer of the AIO causing problems.

The thing is she's a nappy(diaper) maker and a very good one at that. So he's been in these kinds of fabric combos for years.

she used to make a wool AIO so I am really doubting it was wool on it's own

maybe it is a heat rash? hmm I'll present her with some more possibilities?

[aussie_knit]

It doesn't sound like a wool allergy to me either. Was he sweaty at all? Angus has been getting a bit of heat rash atm as even though its cold it can get quite hot under doonas.

[Baa Bum Mum]

it's pretty cold here now Kris (well as cold as we get in Queensland)

There's nothing that can live in wool that would bite is there? (I thought it was a crazy thought myself, if it were to live in wool it would eat the wool not the person :rofl)

[pmcgary]

If he got 'bit' it would have likely been by something in his bed and not in the diaper or soaker. (Unless of course he picked a critter up when he was wearing them outside.)

[Baa Bum Mum]

yeah I agree

so I presented the ideas and she told me the "bites" are all over his legs, and there are clusters of them, they go right down to his ankles?
so either a mozzie got under there, and bit him, or it's the spray lanolin pattern?

we disscussed doing a smaller "trial" but decided that might be too mean.

so mystery continued, she isn't going to use the scented lanolin

[aussie_knit]

Get her to give them a wash in baby shampoo until all the scent is gone and I'll send her some organic lanolin and see if it makes a difference.