u/zeimsohappy

I gave my baby a sweet potato fry with ranch dressing on it a couple of hours ago. My brain somehow forgot that ranch has eggs in it. So far no vomiting. I have my fingers crossed that she won’t react, but this is our first possible exposure to any of her trigger foods since she was diagnosed in March.

For those of you who have had exposures at dinner time, does your baby wake in the night to vomit? We have only had past exposures during the day, and she would usually start to vomit after her nap.

I recently learned from this subreddit about the exploitative images of naked babies being used by Kudos to market their diapers and wipes. This is entirely unacceptable, and had me shocked since we have been using Kudos wipes as our wipe of choice (but Freestyle diapers were our top diaper). In the Reddit thread about the images for the wipes ad, I read a comment about the wipes formula having been changed recently and it caused burning even on adult skin. I tested the wipes on myself and wanted to make a dedicated post to save anyone else who has been using these wipes on their baby without knowing about the reformulation.

After reading the comment from u/Clear_Ad5584 I tried one of our Kudos wipes on my own bottom and it really does BURN the skin! I also used one on my toddler after a number 2 in the potty and same thing, complaints of burning the skin.

My baby has had a horrific bleeding diaper rash for almost two months now, which I am guessing lines up with when we got a box of the new formula Kudos wipes. We have gone to crazy lengths to help her diaper rash (slathering hydrocortisone, Desitin max, using cornstarch baby powder, and even using stoma powder at our pediatrician’s last resort recommendation) and it just keeps coming back with bleeding spots. We try to rinse with water when at home, but we have been traveling and just on the go a lot, so we have been using Kudos wipes for the poopy diaper changes. I never suspected the Kudos wipes because we were using them before with no problems. My baby has been crying when wiped which I thought was just because she was sore with the rash, but no, the wipes will burn undamaged adult skin, so I am horrified how much it has been hurting my baby’s poor bleeding diaper rash skin.

We are throwing away all the open packages of Kudos wipes we have, and returning the unopened cases. Thank you to this sub and to u/Clear_Ad5584 for commenting about your experience with the new wipe formula so I finally figured this out. It’s so upsetting that we can’t even trust the supposedly safe and clean companies to (1) not post child p*rn as advertisements and (2) not change a product that is used on delicate baby skin to suddenly include ingredients that burn the skin and cause severe rashes.