I went to the hospital on Sunday morning to see the gyno as I was convinced I had thrush. My DS (1yo) had a course of antibiotics about 2.5weeks ago to clear up secondary infection on his eczema. My nipples became quite painful and there was a white dry looking area on the tip of one and on Sunday morning I thought I saw white spots on the tongue of DS towards the back of his tongue. Two doctors had a look at me and said it didn't look like thrush to them and maybe it was some other kind of infection. They tried to have a look at DS's tongue but were obviously incompetent outside their own specialty. I was adamant that it was thrush but that it just didn't look so bad because I had been taking probiotics since DS started the antibiotics. I am worried that it is thrush but no one will treat us for it or it is something else - god knows what? I have been wearing the nipple shells and keeping them in the air and applying Purelan which is a lanolin based cream and the pain is decreasing but is still there. I am thinking of weaning DS from one of his feeds starting today just to give them more of a chance of healing - what do you guys think?
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Thought I had thrush but apparently not ... help
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AussieSim · 16/02/2004 09:39
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