Oral candidiasis (thrush)?

[Plummeting]

Am I really the only one who's had this during pregnancy? I searched the forums and only really found threads on babies with oral yeast infections. I do not have cottage cheese spots or anything at all white in my mouth, but rather smoother areas and my whole tongue is burning like HELL. I can only guess (since I've been out of town and haven't been able to see my m/w or a doctor) that it's called erythematous oral candidiasis and is basically just a different presentation of oral yeast infection.

I have been really, really stressed out lately, had to go on a trip with my dad's new wife and her kids over Xmas (which I did not want to do), caught a diarrheal illness, had one eyelid swell up and then had my tongue break out in these awful spots. I am normally very healthy. I assume it was just a confluence of events that didn't work for my already pregnancy-suppressed immune system, and am guessing the conjunctivitis and diarrhea are probably some adenovirus, so the same illness which could be suppressing my immune system even more than the pregnancy, the stress and a change in altitude due to traveling (which I'd imagine can impact immune function when you're 3rd trimester and already out of breath lol).

Surely someone else has experienced an oral yeast infection while pregnant...right?

[is it puppies?]

Not while pregnant, but rinsing and gargling with tea tree oil/water as well as using it directly on any weird spots helps... at least in the early stages. I don't remember ever having any burning though, but patches which were smoother and sometimes white-ish. I haven't had one in years and years but any time I think I could be getting one I will do the rinse gargle and not get one. I use tea tree oil on everything that is potentially yeast or fungus related and it's a miracle. Actually, I use it on most unpleasant skin things, too.

[eternamariposa]

I have been battling yeast for quite some time and I do have periods of oral thrush-asymptomatic though, I can just see it- when I am eating things I am intolerant of, particulary dairy. I have had really good results with probiotics, watching my diet, and using xylitol toothpaste along with this Natural Dentist brand mouthwash that is full of aloe, grapefruit seed extract, goldenseal, and other immune boosters. I think I would start there and evaluate your diet, but honestly I think that you should probably see a doctor because it sounds like an infection that came from whatever it was you caught recently so if it were me I would definitely want to know more about what it is before making any assumptions. My son had stomatitis a year or two back that made him break out with really painful spots all over the inside of his mouth and that was a bacterial thing. There are so many possiblities though, I say get some cultures taken.

[WuWei]

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

You might try some B6, CLO, whole food probiotics (yogurt), or apple cider vinegar or coconut oil topically. These all help with thrush.

If those don't help consider garlic, grapefruitseed extract (GSE), caution with these if you have any mercury fillings in your teeth.

I'd suggest whole food probiotics daily. Limit gluten and dairy and sugars.


Pat

[Plummeting]

These were not sores in my mouth, just to be clear. They were just depapillated (smooth)areas on the tongue. I use xylitol, coconut oil and probiotics daily already, but while I was out of town I got a liquid probiotic and held it in my mouth and gargled it for a while before swallowing. I did that after doing a diluted ACV. My diet is as good as it can be, all things considered. It was really just a bad combination of events and I'm pretty sure the altitude didn't help, since I went from low to high, which has been shown to have a negative impact on immune function in some people.

It started clearing up after a couple days of doing those things, but I went to the dentist this morning (we only got home last night). He said it was geographic tongue, but that the severity of pain indicated that it was complicated by an infection which he said was probably fungal, but saw no need to treat at this point since it's all going away. He's kind of more naturally minded, so that might have something to do with not further investigating, since he knows I've already been doing a lot to get rid of it and it's going away. Anyway, he said to come back in for cultures if it comes back as painfully.

[Hey Mama!]

I'm not pg but I get oral thrush whenever my immune system is weaked or if I take antibiotics. I recently had it after having H1N1, sinus/ear/throat infection, then a cold all back to back. I use gentian violet on my tongue for 3 days and gargle with kosher sea salt. It clears up within the three days.

[at_the_hip]

I have a super sore tongue now for a couple weeks. I think it may be due to anemia because it doesn't seem to be going away. I have had a cold...I don't have white patches...just a really sore tongue and sometimes throat. I am known to become anemic during pg so I am going to have to try to get some iron into me despite the lingering nausea!

[HappiLeigh]

I had oral thrush during the last weeks of my last pregnancy--it disappeared before I was home from the hospital after giving birth. I was mostly too lazy (busy, tired) to do anything about it, and then it went away on it's own with birth.
FWIW, some people recommend caution using tea tree oil during pregnancy, and many consider it toxic if ingested at all, so I'd do plenty of research before I put it in my mouth during pregnancy.
Hope you get it cleared up! s