Thrush & BF

[SpinSugar]

Hi ladies. After anyone's personal experiences of oral thrush in babies and it affecting feeding.

I have been getting shooting pains in one boob that are extremely uncomfortable and not associated with feeding at all. Spoke to BF advisor yesterday who said sounds like 'deep thrush'. Today I've noticed my baby has several white plaques in her mouth.

Wondering if this can explain why she's been very fussy latching in the last 2 days.

Anyway, I've looked on nhs choices where there's a lot of useful info, but I don't know if I should let it ride its course or go to the Drs?

Apparently its very common so I don't know if I'm worrying over nothing, but I'm having to take regular pain killers as its very painful!

Xx

Mummy to my beautiful girl born 9/8/13

 

[SpinSugar]

Anyone help?

I've been given drops for baby and tablets & cream for me. Its agony, I'm so tempted to try her on a bottle tonight

Xx

Mummy to my beautiful girl born 9/8/13

 

[stargirl]

I'm sorry, I haven't experienced this but didn't want to read and run. My cousins baby had oral thrush when she was first born and although my cousin didn't bf her little one struggled taking her bottles and it didn't get easier for her till the thrush was gone. She ended up on two different types of drops in the end. Hope it clears up for you soon and that it stops being painfull.


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[Bonfire Bride]

No experience here either I'm afraid but really hope it heals soon.

You said in your first post that it was the one breast, if this is the case, can you not try her on the other breast why the sore one heals. People do say that feeding a bottle at such a young age can cause nipple confusion, but we fed Oliver a few formula top ups during the first few days and he's brilliant breastfeeding xxx

 

[OrangePekoe]

My baby and I are going through this same thing right now. I've been given cream and he's got drops for his mouth and I bought cream for yeast infections for his bum because his rash has been so horrible it has not gone away for weeks! It's been a real pain trying to feed him though! Even though his case is mild now he has difficulty latching on properly but it seems to be getting a bit better now that he's been on the drops for so long. It seems hard to get rid of though like we keep passing it back and forth to each other because neither of us are clearing up at the exact same time. I have debated bottle feeding as well but so far have just pushed myself to breastfeed. If you've got the drops and cream then that should take care of things... definitely wouldn't say leave it alone though... so far it seems annoyingly hard to get rid of here anyways. One thing I was told with the drops (not sure what kind you have though) is instead of the 4 times a day the bottle says do it half doses and 8 times a day... and before they take the drops use a q-tip and swab the inside of their cheeks well with it. It seems to be clearing up faster for him since I've been doing this instead of the 4 times a day without the q-tip.

 

[OrangePekoe]

Err not sure if I was clear there lol... the drops have to be on the q-tip and swabbed in mouth and THEN they have to take the rest like normal.

 

[SpinSugar]

Thanks all. Ill try giving her 0.5ml 8x a day. I seem to be better, yay, no more shooty pain. But it still hurts to feed so I'm off to get my latch checked now

Xx

Mummy to my beautiful girl born 9/8/13

 

[BevG]

keep up the treatement and feeding, i had this and it took a few months as doc kept giving me either cream for me or drops for baby but it only went after we had all at the ssame time

 

[SpinSugar]

Well her thrush has cleared up so fast, her mouth looks so Mich better after just a few days!
Me on the other hand...I have thrush still, and now mastitis

Xx