Consumer Product Safety Commission investigation into Pampers Dry Max

[Anonymous]

You know, it actually never occurred to me to wash my washing machine out with bleach. And I've had grosser thing in there than a bit of baby poop. So thanks to this thread, I just ran through a cycle with bleach. And now I feel so much better about the fact that the clothes that are washing now will not be covered in human (and cat) feces. Thanks DCUM!!

[Anonymous]

Baby got banana face on me. I changed one poopy diaper and one wet diaper this evening. Baby spit up on me, toddler threw up a little. I was thinking of just burning the house down, but I'm just not sure that would be enough.

[Anonymous]

Baby got banana face on me. I changed one poopy diaper and one wet diaper this evening. Baby spit up on me, toddler threw up a little. I was thinking of just burning the house down, but I'm just not sure that would be enough.

Someone touch a nerve? All I saw were a few posters telling you to rinse your machine out with bleach after a load of shitty diapers. Why the overreaction?

[Anonymous]

21:02, burning down the house might be excessive. But you might want to run a cup of bleach through your machine after washing a load of diapers, like pp said. Esp. Before you was your baby's clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Baby got banana face on me. I changed one poopy diaper and one wet diaper this evening. Baby spit up on me, toddler threw up a little. I was thinking of just burning the house down, but I'm just not sure that would be enough.

Someone touch a nerve? All I saw were a few posters telling you to rinse your machine out with bleach after a load of shitty diapers. Why the overreaction?

Who, me? I don't put shitty diapers in my washer. In fact, I don't believe anybody here does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP -- (is that you, Kathleen? Cause I saw this posted on a bunch of listservs I'm on, almost verbatim.) You seem to be spreading the word farrrrr and wide. I know you have thought long and hard about your choices and think you have made the right ones and think it's helpful to tell everyone else about your beliefs, but it starts to feel like an evangelist persistently knocking at your door and harassing you when you're just trying to get through the day. Pampers are burning your babies, snacks are poisoning your kids, sunscreens are killing them... the drama.

I am the OP and not Kathleen. I saw an article about some issues with a new Pampers diaper and thought some parents might want to know. After seeing the article, I did some more reading about disposables / cloth (thanks for all of the great insightfull comments from DCUM). As a parent I think we need to continue to educate ourselves on what our choices are and the possible implications on our children. We research what is the "best" exersaucer, paint, organic bedding, stroller, car seat, crib etc etc - but many of us do not think twice about diapers. Maybe we did and went with 7th generation b/c they were chlorine free - but I do not believe that most of us ever thought twice as to what actually we are putting next to our children's skin when we diaper them.

[Anonymous]

To get back to the original subject, I will second what another poster mentioned above -- I've been using the Cruisers with DryMax for months now and my 2 yo has not had any problem at all with diaper rash.

[Anonymous]

I used Pampers for years, it is what we've always used since my first was born 3 years ago. About a month ago we noticed he developed a strange rash. Diaper rash didn't make sense - he didn't have diarrhea and nothing was different about his potty habits or frequency of changes. I eventually brought him to the doctor, who was unsure of a diagnosis - he said "maybe yeast" and we tried some anti-fungal. It didn't help at all. The rash was getting progressively worse, and finally it dawned on me that the diapers we were using were a new design. We switched to Huggies and the rash cleared up within days.

My own theory is that the diapers are probably fine for most kids. I think something they did with the new design is irritating kids with sensitive skin. And in the cases of chemical burns, there is probably some flaw in those diapers or something that is causing the dry max powder to get closer to the skin than intended. Obviously that is just a guess.

[Anonymous]

Canada is investigating Pampers now.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100506/diapers-pampers-100506/20100506?hub=Health

[Anonymous]

Oh my damn! I was one of the early posters to say I use cloth diapers (was the one asking why some folks say it's not feasible, and did not know about the daycare thing). All I can say is holy crap, no pun intended, what happened to this thread!??? I suggested cloth diapers to people NOT to make them feel guilty but because I love using them. They are better for the environment (yes, even with the washing) and better for your baby. But is your baby going to keel over from disposables? Certainly not! Am I "covered with feces" because I wash my rinsed-off poopy diapers in my household washing machine? Certainly not!

It is only recently that we've become such a freaked out nation with respect to sanitizing everything. Okay, I can understand this, I guess, but do you know what bleach and chlorine does to groundwater and natural waterways? Do you prefer that these strong chemicals (poisons, frankly) are being cycled back into our potable water system?

There are a million things to be worried about: pick one. I happened to pick worry over the millions and millions of virtually indestructable disposables sitting in a landfill where their chemicals are free to leach into the environment and poison us. You picked worry over whether or not you've sanitized your washing machine after washing clothes with natural human fluids on them. People, life is a messy business. We humans shit and piss and vomit, and if we follow the wrong person too closely, we inhale the stinky methane they excrete behind them. (Ewwwww!) But let's not exaggerate. Nobody is going to get sick or walk around dirty from responsible cloth diaper use. But as this thread demonstrates, there ARE questionable chemicals in disposables.

I'm not judging anyone, but please stop with the weird OCD washing machine stuff.

And for those who are truly interested, what you do with poopy diapers is this: hold the diaper by the top (no poop there) and use a sprayer to rinse the solids into the toilet. Soak in cold water. Wash in hot water. Dry in the sun if you have staining. Natural, healthy, clean.

Or just use disposables. It's not the end of the world if you do, but let's not pretend it is "better" in any way except parental convenience, and even that might surprise you if you gave cloth a try.

Signed,

the least "hippie" person in the world who loves cloth diapers and does not consider herself covered in fecal matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
To clean your home machine, Schnitzer recommended every two to three cycles you run an empty cycle with bleach to get rid of bacteria.


I have never heard of anyone actually doing this. I'll stick with my bacteria, thanks.

Talk about environmentally unfriendly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
To clean your home machine, Schnitzer recommended every two to three cycles you run an empty cycle with bleach to get rid of bacteria.


I have never heard of anyone actually doing this. I'll stick with my bacteria, thanks.

Talk about environmentally unfriendly.

You are covered in feces. It's a scientific FACT.

[Anonymous]

It all makes sense now! My son had a rash w blisters that didn't go away despite medication, extremely frequent changes, airing, washing, etc etc. I finally decided to switch to 7th generation on the off chance he was allergic to the pampers material. I kid you not, he got better in 1 day and by day 3 was fine. It didn't register earlier because we've used pampers since birth but not w the new materials.

[Anonymous]

23:52, please consider filing a complaint with the CPSC.

[Anonymous]

All of you poop-o-phobes realize we're covered in bacteria and microorganisms and bugs anyway, right? You know what's in dust, right?