Treating oral thrush - Fluconizole and beyond...

[Dukester100]

Hi, I recently posted about my frustration with treating thrush. LO is 8wks and had oral thrush since about 2wks. Nystatin was useless, daktarin gel not much better but now I am on Fluconizole and would say my own symptoms appear to be going (painful feeding though seemed to have more painful let down now?!) but despite continuing to apply daktarin LO tongue is still really coated...

I know I could have another two weeks of the drug which I am trying to avoid. Just wondered if anyone had experienced taking medication themselves but the baby continuing to have thrush and how they tackled it. I am eager not to continue prolonged mediation for either of us and have had difficulties with health professionals (basically demanded Fluconizole in the end and then had to tell the GP whether I thought it would affect baby and the dosage I wanted :/)

I am also interested in taking probiotics having had a course of anti-bs for mastitis - can anyone recommend any decent brands or suppliers for post natal probiotics safe for breastfeeding???

Thanks in anticipation!
Emma :-)

I did get aphodiphillis (sp?) when I had thrush. It was a bugger to get rid of. I just bought the capsules from H&B.

Hope it gets better for you soon, I remember the days when my toes used to curl because of the pain.

Udo's Choice do really good probiotics for both grownups and babies - Super 8 for you, Infant's Blend for baby. The Infant's Blend is a powder: they suggest mixing it with milk/a drink but for an EBF baby you can just dip a (clean) wet finger in a spoonful of it and then let baby suck it off.

Do remember that a coated tongue in a small baby may not mean LO still has thrush, they often get a milky residue on it that's, well, milk. When mine had actual thrush it was more like white patches just inside his cheeks that looked kind of raw if you rubbed at them (and made him very cranky), and they cleared up really quickly with Daktarin.

Thanks both. It's definitely thrush not milk as it will not budge when wiping and all HCPs say straight away it's bad thrush though it's not elsewhere in his mouth...

I just hope after the meds it doesn't keep transferring between us as I feel I would seriously need to reconsider BF which would be such a shame :( Doesn't help I am the most impatient person in the world!!