Advice on Thrush

My daughter had chronic thrush as a baby, Diflucan works well. There was another medicine that they wanted to use, where you would swish it in her mouth, started with an N, did nothing to help. I do not know the age of your child, but we had to throw away all pacifiers and not use them at all and boil between every use bottles, nipples, nipple rings, sippy cups, all parts of cup. Boil toothbrushes, or just buy new ones to use every day for a while. GOOD LUCK!

Act quickly! My son had thrush for a long time before I realized what it was, and then it took a long time to get rid of. The doctor will probably give you Diflucan or some other yeast infection treatment. It works, but it takes a while. In the meantime, boil everything that has been in your baby's mouth! Do this every day until it's gone.

If you're brestfeeding, you'll probably get a topical cream to use. Use it religiously, and also eat yogurt and take acidophilus supplements (you can get them at the drugstore in the vitamin section). It's just like treating a regular yeast infection, only in a different area. Wash your bras frequently in hot water, and use disposable nursing pads that you can change 3-4 times per day.

A friend of mine also recommended a treatment of Gentian violet (?) or something like that. It stains your baby's mouth purple and also will stain you if you're nursing. But it wears off in a few days. I never tried it cause I was afraid of making a huge mess of purple, but she said it helped, in addition to the other treatments.

You can also give your baby acidophilus. If you get capsules, you can break them open, dump out the powder, and put a little in baby's mouth. I asked my doctor, and while he hadn't heard of this, he said it wouldn't hurt to try it. Just a little on your finger maybe 3 times a day.

Actually, the best thing that helped us finally get rid of it was for me to pump breastmilk and give it to him in a bottle. (When I went back to work.) If you do that temporarily, you can always go back to nursing later.

Hope this is helpful!

thrush is a type of yeast infection that needs to be treated by antibiotics or will become worst. I just had an encounter with this a few weeks ago with family members baby that had it. Call your dr and ask for a presription for antibiotic for thrush. dr may want to have the child seen. Hope this helps

I tried the nystatin that the doc prescribed and a million other things...yogurt, acidolphous (sp?) but the thing that made it go away almost IMMEDIATELY was Gentian Violet. You apply it the same way as nystatin (with a q tip and wipe it EVERYWHERE in their mouth) but their mouth does turn bright purple for a day or two, just go to Walgreens (or another ddrug store) and ask the pharmacist for it, it only costs about $10.00 and the bottle will last for as long as they are a baby!!! THE BEST STUFF EVER!!!

Hi S.. You have probably already been to the DR.'s by now but both my boys had thrush. Only the DR. can give you something to treat it. It does last a long time or at least did in my youngest child. If you are nursing you could have it too! It makes breastfeeding very unpleasant! Good luck to you!

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