Oral Thrush - nearly 8 week old

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Hi

Just wanted to know if others have experienced it, baby was crying more than usual and fussy with feeding so went to A&E on Wednesday night and was told he had oral thrush, I thought it was milk tongue but after i noticed more and more white spots all in his mouth poor boy :(

Started using Nystan on Thursday morning and its now Friday evening but not seeing a difference yet.. I know it may take the full 7 days to fully heal it.

Any experiences? Does it fully go away and what are the chances of it coming back.

I am very thorough with sterilising bottles and stopped breast feeding at around 4 weeks, and i didnt have any thrush or anything.

I had this with bf Ds2 (was tandem feeding Ds1 at the time who was the likely source). It cleared up fairly quickly (7-10 days). No idea how FF might change things

How are you feeding?

If BF then you need treating too, otherwise you'll just keep passing it back and forwards between each other

What size teat are you using? My baby got thrush because she got sucking too hard on the bottle so I upped the teat size and that helped.

My DS got thrush when he was about that age too. We had 2 rounds of nystatin which didn't work (he also hated the taste!). We then had daktarin gel which was much easier to give and cleared it up. I also stopped using my steam steriliser (on the advice of others) and started using cold water milton sterilising instead and that helped too.