Thrush and freaking out at night time.

[PooPooInMyToes]

My 6 year old daughter gets thrush quite often. The Dr has prescribed canisten which we can put on as and when needed.

The problem is that when she gets it at night time she makes so so so so so much more fuss then if she gets it during the day.

Last night she was freaking out about it. With every itch she was kicking out her legs and spasming about. Crying and whimpering.

My other child is poorly at the moment so i was really needed to go to sleep as I knew i would be up before long with them. But i started out very patient and was trying to comfort her but she just kept freaking out.

First she had the cream put on and then it was her bottom that was hurting so she has vaseline on that, then i tried some anti itch medicine which i thought if anything might work as a placebo. Then in desperation i gave her calpol. Nothing was helping.

I had already brought her into my bed because from experience i know she will keep crying louder and louder and i didn't want her to wake my other poorly one. So i was trying to cuddle her to sleep in my bed but she was just freaking out.

I feel that at night her reactions are much more extreme and then way she kicks and things is over the top for an itch. I know its not nice because i get it too but she is generally like that . . . reacts massively to small hurts and things. For eg she will often cry out and act like something terrible has happened and it will turn out she just had a little itch on her foot or something. And that's during the day.

Sometimes the way she acts at night reminds me of night terrors but she is definitely awake.

Any advice would be welcome. Last night my husband had to take over and managed to cuddle her to sleep in her own bed where she was fine for the rest of the night but i need to be able to deal with this.

(My mum was like this as a child and she has grown up into a very anxious adult which i don't want for my daughter)

Oh and i also was trying to get her to relax by breathing slowly in and out etc which i was doing with her.

Given that it's so distressing for everyone concerned, I would be pressing the GP for some ways to prevent a recurrence rather than simply treating the symptoms. If she's getting thrush so often, there has to be some underlying reason.

I did take her back but the gp said it all looked fine but that some kids just get it a lot. He talked about wiping the right way, letting air get to the area, not using soap. All which we already do.

I just talked to her about it and she says that it just hurts more at night time. I think its probably her perception that's different.

She always had a sore bum as a baby too. She would get instant blisters which must have made me looked negligent but it was just the way she was.

Without wishing to be alarming, repeated bouts of thrush in adults is often a pointer to test for Type II diabetes. Being a yeast infection, excess sugar in the urine and other imbalances can lead to an overgrowth. Has anyone ever recommended dietary changes, for example.

No they haven't. She had an intolerance to dairy when she was a toddler and i do wonder if that contributed to her sore bum, making the wee more acidic or something. So she was dairy free for a while but is cured of that now.

She has had several lots of blood tests over the years none of which have picked that up but doubt she was specifically tested for it anyway.

There are on other signs that i can see.

I do feel its mainly mental. She gets pains in her legs which she goes nuts about as well, except her teacher seems to have convinced her that they are not a big deal and since then she's made hardly any fuss about it!

Thrush IS worse at night ime. I have been in floods of tears with it during one really bad bout.

Are you using any bubble bath or any sort of show gel at all, if you are then you need to stop.

Cotton knickers?

Do you use non bio washing powder? And if you use conditioner then you need to stop.

If she keeps getting it then I would strongly recommend seeing another doctor as it really is avoidable, you just need to pin point what triggers it.

If you have done all of the above then ignore

Bubble bath is occasional.

Yes cotton knickers.

Yes non bio.

Do use conditioner though.

Will correct those things. Really though the more i think about it the more i think its possibly psychological. Her bits look fine, no discharge, no redness. Although she does get those things sometimes. Her teacher tells me she was unable to do pe today due to soreness but she is now completely denying it and says she is fine! She has told lies before to get out of pe but not sure she would lie about that.

Its all a bit weird.

Will try those things, see what happens and if no better go see another Dr.