https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 30 May 2026 19:44:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033558 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:28:01 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2033558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only use it when needed...grandparents are special :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033548 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:25:52 +0000 swurlygurl 2033548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Skadi: Could you suggest coconut oil, if they feel like they have to put *something* on? That might be a little too 'hippy' though, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033530 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:16:48 +0000 Skadi 2033530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: @MenagerieMama: Our relationship is a little tense. Grandma thinks all of our alternative choices are super weird and that I try to micromanage her. So I try not to sweat the little things!</p> <p>@Mrs. Tiger: Haha, that's what they do too! I'm relieved that I was just being a crunchball. It's not naturrrrrral. (Except it is...it's a natural mineral, after all!)</p> <p>@Cole: @blackbird: Thanks so much for explaining! That makes me feel a lot better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033457 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:35:53 +0000 blackbird 2033457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Zinc oxide is totally safe! It's in a TON of skincare products (sunscreen!) it's a mineral actually, and has been extensively researched and is very mild. It forms a barrier, so it doesn't penetrate skin, so it's not being absorbed at all. </p> <p>I think desitin is just an old school sort of diaper cream (lord knows my mom sweeeears by it and can't believe I don't use it! THE HORROR) but i find it thick and pasty and prefer to only use it if E has a diaper rash in a disposable. Otherwise i'm like, meh, why bother. That being said, I would have no problem asking my in laws to use another diaper cream (one that I gave them) because it is super pasty and sticky and water repellant, so i feel like i have to, well, scrub E's vagina to get it all off her in the tub. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033452 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:34:33 +0000 Cole 2033452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I asked the pediatrician and the pharmacist about this when a little one I watched was going through an awful spell with diaper rash. We were using calmoseptine which actually has more zinc oxide than desitin. Happily the answer was there is absolutely no risk! It's just a barrier cream and skin won't absorb it in the same way as lotions and other types of cream, which isn't too day they won't absorb some but it's not like using a tub of Vaseline every day or something like that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033382 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:42:56 +0000 MenagerieMama 2033382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you buy a magic stick for their house? The grandparents have thought ours is such a magical invention - Chapstick for the bum!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033359 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:20:06 +0000 illumina 2033359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use Sudocrem, which also contains zinc oxide, for every nappy change. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033348 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:06:49 +0000 looch 2033348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you not talk to your inlaws about it, and suggest an alternative? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033345 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:01:29 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 2033345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put it on like peanut butter :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-use-too-much-zinc-oxide#post-2033340 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:55:03 +0000 Skadi 2033340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We cloth diaper, so the only diaper ointment we use is the Grovia Magic Stick or Burt's Bees Natural Baby Ointment. I know you can technically use zinc oxide with CD (or any ointment that doesn't have petro products), but it does tend to stain so we avoid it.</p> <p>When we take LO over to the grandparents, they put her in disposable diapers and slather in extra strength Desitin. I mean, it's not just a thin coating...they put it all over, super thick. Every single time they change her diaper. I haven't said anything, because I figure I'm probably just being paranoid, but I have this feeling like it's not good to put something so chemically strong on a baby's bum when she doesn't have even mild diaper rash. I can't help but wince when I change her diaper afterwards and I have to meticulously wipe Desitin out of her vagina.</p> <p>Am I being an irrational hippy? </p>