Quick Question...

[BlueIrises]

Should the babies tongue have any white on it ever? Like a plaque film like adults get? I'm not sure how to know when the thrush is gone from his mouth.

[SMoody]

It takes a while for them to get over that. My daughter had it once. You get a drop mixture from a dr to drop into her mouth. You can also use glycerine. Will just clean the mouth out.

Sterilise the pacifier more often as well and throw out all old pacifiers and buy new if you are using them.

[alegna]

We never had thrush but dd often had a white tongue just from milk. Not sure how to tell the difference....

-Angela

[woodstar]

my baby has a white tongue after nursing...or after spitting up. i thought he had thrush for a while, but i think it is just from milk.

[CathMac]

BlueIrises,
I was going to stick this notation on as a P.S. but it is important so I'll highlight it here. In one of the links I PM'ed you it indicates that Diflucan can aggravate Vasospasm and/or Raynaud's. This comment was made in passing and could depend on a number of factors.

To answer the question you ask here, from what I understand, if you can't wipe it off it's thrush. Thrush is very persistent. Also, it's hard to see since it sometimes it hides in nooks and crannies (like the little triangular piece of flesh on the inside corner of the mouth). Also, even if it seems to have cleared up it can rear it's ugly head again very quickly, which suggests in never really went away. Diet is probably a huge part of that but I think --based on your other threads-- you know that already.

I'll commiserate with you a little on that (without wallowing too much) it hardly seems fair that you have to give up a relatively modest luxury --junky carbs-- on top of everything you are dealing with but that's the way it is.

I've been struggling with Thrush with DD2 for about 2 1/2 months now. We did 2 courses of oral Nystatin. I'd rather not do the Diflucan since I am tandem nursing and DD1 (2 1/3 year old) may be a source of re-infection. We are now using GSE with some success. I think that's why it's bearable but we really need to bite the bullet and do the GSE mouth swabs with DD2 more regularly. Which is easier to say than do.

I'm guessing you've seen these already but here is one Kellymom article/list of resources and I am pulling out a link within that article to Jack Newman's Candidia / GSE protocol. If you do decide to try GSE make sure to use the citricidal version he recommends. (I am using citrus paradisi which may be part of my problem).

Thrush Resources
... more than you ever wanted to know about thrush
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/...resources.html

Candida Protocol
http://www.kellymom.com/newman/c-candida_protocol.html

Good luck. ~Cath