2006-11-07 00:55:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The link below has some great resources for thrush treatment.
If you are breastfeeding, be sure that you are BOTH treated or you'll just pass it back and forth.
2006-11-07 00:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oral thrush in babies is caused purely through poor hygeine practice. Sometimes we dont even know we're doing it but when a dummy drops to the floor ....and we put it in our mouths to 'clean' it , all we're doing is coating the dummy with thrush organisms from our own mouth (which is present all adults but presents no symptoms because we have immunity) This is the commonest way babies get thrush in their mouth.
As stated before DO NOT USE CANNESTEN - this is for adult vaginal thrush. Go see a doctor and get a prescription for neonatal oral thrush medication.
To prevent it , be careful with anything that goes into babies mouth ...it all MUST be sterile. If a teat on bottle is picked up by someone - its unsterile, if a dummy falls to the floor - its unsterile ....if you take these steps the oral thrush wont return.
Chris - Midwife
2006-11-07 03:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by chrisashton33 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the doctor and get a prescription, a special one for babies from age 1 month. It is a liquid and works like a dream. My baby only had a slight thrush once. My hubby thought the baby would look cute having a pacifier so he bought him one. Although I sterilised it, I am sure mu hubby didn't (just ran hot water over it), and the baby got oral thrush soon after. Needless to say, hubby had a thorough lesson about hygiene, and the pacifier is somewhere on the rubbish tip now.
2006-11-07 22:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by ribena 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont give your child a dummy. there is no way you can keep dummies clean as babies are always dropping them. My kid got it when she was a couple weeks old, it can be treated with some medicine from the doctors easily.
edit:.... do not under no circumstances go out and buy canesten cream from the chemist. for a start it is not meant for oral use and secondly it is far too strong for use on a baby. if you go to the doctors they will give you some medicine. For the smart alec that put "what have you been doing to your baby" oral thrush is common in babies as they have a weak immune system and are constantly putting things in their mouths.a child having oral thrush does not mean you have "done anything" to it or that you have not cared for it correctly. it just happens.
2006-11-07 00:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by hazy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My son has thrush now and he is 2m/o, I don't know why your OB would want you to wait until it gets worse. My son was prescribed Gentian violet, which will stain his mouth purple and also I got nystatin to put on mu breast since I'm breastfeeding so were not passing it back and fourth. Make a doctors appt asap to get him some medicine to make him feel better. Hope things get better for you also make sure you sanitize all bottle nipples and pacifiers with boiling water
2016-03-18 00:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son had it a month ago, the doctor gave us some anti-fungal medicine, and it was cleared up in a week or two. During this period, we sterilized his nipples and pacifiers everyday. It has not come back. I don't think that sterilizing your babies pacifier every time it falls on the floor is necessary (after a certain age (6 months or so)), they put everything in their mouths anyway! Also, keeping everything extremely sterile all the time does not allow for them to build up their own immunities.
Remember this is a common condition for babies, you did nothing wrong. Good luck!
2006-11-07 01:49:38 · answer #6 · answered by Wes's Mommy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know if you get it there but ask you pharmacist for glycerin.You dip there dummies in it. Its not medicine its a very sweet oil. They get allot of thrush from milk that sits on the tong. that helps it to come off.
2006-11-07 01:08:31 · answer #7 · answered by Alzette S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to go to the doctor to get a prescription! Our son had it too.... and that worked... also, we were told to boil the nipples/bottles/pacifires more often- so I started doing that after every use to help get rid of the thrush.
2006-11-07 00:59:38 · answer #8 · answered by m930 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2017-03-01 04:21:36 · answer #9 · answered by Timothy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By sterilising the baby's dummy and teats. When the dummy drops on the floor sterilise it before giving it back to baby. I have seen loads of mothers picking the dummies off dirty shop-floors and sticking it into the kids mouth.
2006-11-07 00:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋