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Conference moira::parenting_v3

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING
Moderator:	CSC32::DUBOIS

Created:	Wed May 30 1990
Last Modified:	Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1364
Total number of notes:	23848

680.0. "Thrush" by CGVAX2::HENMUELLER () Mon Feb 04 1991 18:03

    I know that this subject was discussed in Parenting V_2 but I
    can't find it so please forgive me for starting a new one.  
    
    My five month old daugther developed thrush the beginning of 
    January and has been on Nystatin drops for the last five weeks.
    Just when I think it is going away, the thrush comes back full
    force again.  We have boiled her bottles and nipples and pacifiers
    everytime she uses them.  She has been on the medicine every day
    since January 3.  She is breast fed so the doctor told me to 
    wash my nipples and put the medicine on them as well.  
    
    Has anyone else had this problem and how long did it take and 
    what did it take to get rid of this.  I don't like the idea of 
    her being on this medication for so long or any medication for that
    matter.  The nurse at her four month checkup said that they used to
    used a purple dye of some sort but they have changed the strength on
    it and they can no longer use it on babies.  HELP!!!!
    
    Thanks,
    
    Vickie

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
680.1	<----Pointer...	NEWPRT::NEWELL_JO	Jodi Newell - Irvine, California	`Mon Feb 04 1991 18:52`	7
	Vickie, You might want to take a look at note 426.*. Jodi-
680.2	You might have a yeast infection	MARX::FLEURY		`Mon Feb 04 1991 19:41`	12
	Michelle had Thrush for almost 6 weeks. First the pedi gave her the nystantin drops, then had me use the drops on my nipples, then went to cream on my nipples (which had to be cleaned off before nursing), replaced all pacifiers, and finally treated me for a vaginal yeast infection! I didn't think I had a yeast infection, but soon after I started treatment, Michelle's Thrush cleared up. Thrush can be very difficult to get rid of. It seems like the yeast can live virtually anyplcace. Just keep at it, clean EVERYTHING - even if it is already clean. It will eventually clear up with allot of perserverence.
680.3	apply medicine to the tongue	HPSCAD::JCATINELLA		`Tue Feb 05 1991 10:26`	6
	I am sure that you already now this but I thought that I would mention it anyway. My doctor told me to give her the drops and that if the medicine time coincided with feeding time to use a Q tip and "paint" some of the medicine onto her tongue about 15 minutes after the feeding. I did this and my daughters thrush went away after about 10 days.
680.4	apply medicine all over mouth	ASABET::TRUMPOLT	Liz Trumpolt - ML05-4 - 223-7153	`Tue Feb 05 1991 14:21`	11
	My son Alexander had thrush and his only lasted 5 weeks and he was on the drops also. I had to apply them to the sides, & top of his mouth plush his tongue. Alex was bottle fed, and it was most likely caused from him droping his bottle and putting it back in his moutn before I could wash it off. But if you are breast feeding maybe you should be check for a yeast infection. Liz
680.5	.. and treat the diaper area...	MARX::FLEURY		`Tue Feb 05 1991 15:06`	5
	I forgot to mention one more place we treated when Michelle had Thrush - her diaper area! She got a yeast diaper-rash. If we hadn't gotten rid of the Thrush when we did, I think the next step would have been to imerse baby, mother, and all toys in nystantin 4 times dayly! ;-)