Vaginal Yeast and Vulvovaginitis

[CailinC]

Hi Mums,

It's been a while but I would like your opinion. My gp had advised my 7 year old daughter had Vulvovaginitis a month ago. I believe she now has a yeast infection. I was wondering if anyone little ones had a yeast infection? How did you treat it? Did you use anything in the bath to try help with ph balance? I know there are tablets to help with ph balance for kids like a probiotic. Any help would be appreciated I am so confused.

Bless her its so horrible for them. My daughter is 9 also currently has a yeast infection. The gp told us to get bepanthen nappy cream from Tesco. I also got some Femfresh to see if that will help

Yes it is indeed, I am using bepanthen but ideally would like some sort of probiotic as well for her. I didn't realise the femfresh were ok for kids. It seems like this is going on ages.

Femfresh really isn't great if prepubertal. Vulvovagintis is really really common in young girls, but thrush much less so once out of nappies. If she hasn't had antibiotics recently, it's probably worth the GP checking a blood sugar. I've known children being futilely treated for thrush for weeks before anyone twigged they were diabetic, so worth ruling that out.

Speaking from experience here but I would suggest giving her some ovex to see if threadworms might be causing it.

I also didn’t know femfresh was bad for kids! 💩 I’ll stop using it immediately just desperately looking for something to solve it all

My 4yr old has had issues with this on and off for a while. Although other urinary issues as well.
the Dr prescribed a cream