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thrush and sterilising

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bamboozleslover · 14/07/2006 23:55

on another thread someone said if your baby has thrush you should only sterilise using something like milton or sterilising tablets as steam and microwave methods weren't effective enough. is this right as we use a steam steriliser and my baby has got thrush.

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NannyL · 15/07/2006 08:39

i read that too...

whilst im no expert IMO sterile is sterile, therefore anything thats sterile should be fine...

as long as its washed in hot soapy water and rinsed in hot water first...

tehre are several people who dont sterilise at all.... TBH im not convinced how necessary sterilising is at all... thoigh i suppose when they have thrush you really need to kill those germs!

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bamboozleslover · 16/07/2006 13:38

well i must admit i wasn't sterilising because the microbiologist in the hopsital told me i didn't need to but when he got thrush i felt really guilty and rushed out to mothercare a bought a steam steriliser.

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PrettyCandles · 16/07/2006 15:16

Thrush, like most organisms, can't live on anything dry. If you and the baby are both receiving medical treatment for the thrush, then ensuring that everything you use has had a chance to dry completely etween uses should be enough to break the cycle.

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/07/2006 15:26

Apparently sterilising isnt necessary as a general rule.

However, with thrush, the only surefire way to kill the bacteria is to sterilise either chemically or by boiling/steam sterilising. That includes your bra's if you are breastfeeding, dummies and anything that your baby may have/put in his mouth.

Its a pain but worth doing. I spent 8 weeks trying to rid myself and DS of thrush.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/07/2006 15:27

What i mean to say is, its highly improbable you have caused thrush by not sterilising - if that is what you were thinking.

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bamboozleslover · 17/07/2006 19:45

i get what you are saying - haven't caused it by not sterilising but i won't get rid of it unless i do.

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Expectantmum · 17/07/2006 19:55

Bamboo my DS had thrush which kept recurring. I changed from a steam steriliser to a microwave steriliser and he never got it back again.

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bamboozleslover · 17/07/2006 20:05

strange ... i would have thought steam and microwave sterilisers were the same as they both create steam.

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kiskidee · 17/07/2006 20:19

thrush is a fungus not a bacteria - also responsible for athlete's foot and jock itch. it breathes in warm damp places - like nipples where i also have it at the moment and dd in her mouth. can't see anyone sterilising nipples so keep them dry as soon as baby is off. this is where i think i went wrong as my dd is dropping feeds and i began to leak from the one where she wasn't feeding.

iPodthereforiPoor · 18/07/2006 15:27

Not sure how true this is, but, I read/was told to buy new teats as the thrush gets into the fibres of the rubber and can reinfect.
It was expensive till I got ASDA teats as I had new ones for the duration of the treatment and then new again once symptoms had gone. It went quite quickly then. Also got rid of the dummies and got new - Oh how I wish I'd just got rid of them...

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