Dosage help with Nystan (oral thrush liquid) for month old DD

[Warmseabreeze]

Hi Ladies
Can u please advise what dose you have used, the dr prescribed 1ml 4 times a day but the medicine information leaflet described that as an adult dose, and that newborns should have only 1ml a day?? Should I follow the dr's dosage or the information leaflet - dr's now closed. Thanks for any help x

Phone your out of hours GP or the pharmacy who dispensed it if it's still open, or the out of hours pharmacy.

we checked with the pharmacist/ health visitor, both said to use adult dose (were prescribed it when DD was 8 weeks old, 8lb10oz if weight/age makes a difference).

Hiya, nystatin may not be the best thing to be giving your dd anyway. Its not very effective compared to daktarin oral gel. This link is for the bfn thrush and breastfeeding leaflet. even if you are F/Feeding the info on "what to give the baby" is just as accurate, print it off and wave it at your gp in the morning. Ask for the daktarin oral gel, there is a choking risk because it is a thick substance, but it does work better. The best application method for the daktarin is a fingertip good luck. hope she's feeling better soon

Agree with KickArseQueen, if you're going to use Nystatin I'd apply it carefully with a clean finger to the affected patches in DCs mouth - it's a topical med so if you just dropper it in and they swallow, it's ineffective. (speaking from experience as mother and following pharmacist advice - I'm not a medical pro!)
Good luck shifting it; it's miserable...

Thanks for the advice and link

Found it very effective with DD and daktarin did nothing so not universal. Use adult dose

On a side line, has the thrush been diagnosed by swabs tested at the lab. I struggled for a month with daktarin, after it was diagnosed by HV. Another mum tipped me off to get it checked by the doc, who sent off swabs. Not thrush .

maria1665, that does happen sometimes, but more often thrush is present but doesn't show up in a swab than the other way round. I b/fed my baby with thrush for 6 months undiagnosed, in agony with various health visitors telling me I must just have a very bad latch, wrong! It was thrush and after 1 course of treatment later all was well. I totally agree that a proper diagnosis is essential, but a swab cannot difinitivley(sp?) rule out thrush, and that is according to a paediatrician. ( glad I found out with dd1 because the same thing hapened with dd2 and ds1, i must be very unlucky!)

If thrush is suspected a course of daktarin is often used to rule it out.

Good luck warmseabreeze