bf strike - has mouth ulcer - heeeelp

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like the title says really, aaargh, I think she may have hand/foot/mouth after a quick google. gp diagnosed excema this morning, cos of spots on bum and legs but i since saw a nasty ulcer in her mouth
anyhow, back to bf,
she won't bf or feed at all, has had about 20 ml all day syringed in to her poor little mouth, screams when i even offer the breast and won't even try to suck. i've expressed twice today, should I do more? is she ok just having that much liquid? gp very unbothered. how can i get her to try to feed? will she start back again as normal or should i prepare to entice her back?
dd is 7 months, bf on demand, usually lots!, and just started blw a month ago.
thank you so so much in advance

can you bfeed her when she is asleep?

ds2 had mouth ulcers once when little and refused the breast, i managed to latch him on when he was asleep (had him in bed with us) and used a sling during the day so i could carry him close to the breast and he eventually started fiddling with and then feeding again quite quickly.

i would try and express more if i were you.

have you tried bonjela on her ulcer, that may help to soothe it?

hope she gets better asap xxx

i've tried bf while she's asleep, she still screams , but jsut now i got her to have 20mls from the syringe while asleep so that might help. now she#s woken up again she won't have any more
i've got some bonjela and am hoping it will help. it says you can only put it on every 4 hours though so i don't know if it will help enough
do you think if i don't express more i might have probs with mastitis? its just so hard to express while holding sobbing baby
good idea bout sling, we use one already so hopefully she will snuffle around during the day. it's jsut so awful to see her take one look at it and go ballistic [sad

just to update, she's latched back on now - it took a few days, 3 days of nothing at all, then very slowly as you said, in her sleep worked best, poor thing knew it would hurt. she's now back to normal
still that gp was so dismissive about her not feeding, i'd have thought she was at serious risk of dehydrating