Your Baby May Have Thrush
Apurva Shree
January 03, 2008
Thrush, medically known as oral pseudo membranous candidacies, is an external yeast infection. It is present in around 5 per cent of healthy babies. They get it from their mothers while passing through the birth canal during pregnancy delivery.
Confused whether your baby has thrush? Check out for tell-tale patches in white in the inside of her lips, cheeks, tongue, and palate. However, do not mistake those white milk residues on the tongue for this infection. Most mothers who bottle-feed do so. It is actually curd-like and, unlike milk residue, sticks to the underlying tissue.
Here’s a way to test for this yeast infection. Touch a patch gently with a finger covered with gauze. In case it’s thrush, it will not come off effortlessly. And when it does, it leaves a raw and red area behind, which may bleed. At times, lesions of thrush may cause pain and your baby might get fussy and wriggle when you bottle-feed her.
Reasons For Developing Thrush
Your baby may have thrush and you may not even know about it. It goes away by itself in normal conditions. However, when there are some changes in either the baby or the environment, the condition gets aggravated. It has been found that babies who are bottle-fed are more prone to it, than those who get breastfeeding. Prolonged sucking causes scraping of your baby’s lining of the mouth. Therefore, even if you have breastfeeding problems, it good to solve them and continue giving your milk directly. Another reason for thrush is stress or the use of antibiotics. In addition to this, babies who fall asleep with bottle nipples or pacifiers in their mouth are susceptible. Mothers, watch out for the nipples and pacifiers! If they are not clean, they can harbor yeast.
Prevention
Ensure that all pacifiers and nipples are washed properly and sterilized.
Your baby should stop sucking and only then should fall asleep.
Don’t let your baby suck on pacifiers for prolonged time.
Treatment
In most of the cases, thrush goes away by itself. The only treatment is to mitigate oral discomfort. You also need to treat sore yeast diaper rashes. There is an antifungal medication available such as Nystatin suspension. You can apply it directly to the affected area, with the help of cotton-tipped applicator, or administer it orally 1-2ml, four times everyday.
If you have more questions, read books and articles and take breastfeeding help from your doctor.
Thrush is common in babies who are bottle-fed. Most of the time, it vanishes without treatment. However, when it gets painful it can be one of the serious breastfeeding problems. In such a case, you may require medical intervention from an expert who is qualified to offer breastfeeding help.
Thrush is common in babies who are bottle-fed. Most of the time, it vanishes without treatment. However, when it gets painful it can be one of the serious breastfeeding problems. In such a case, you may require medical intervention from an expert who is qualified to offer breastfeeding help. For more information visit pregnancy.
Confused whether your baby has thrush? Check out for tell-tale patches in white in the inside of her lips, cheeks, tongue, and palate. However, do not mistake those white milk residues on the tongue for this infection. Most mothers who bottle-feed do so. It is actually curd-like and, unlike milk residue, sticks to the underlying tissue.
Here’s a way to test for this yeast infection. Touch a patch gently with a finger covered with gauze. In case it’s thrush, it will not come off effortlessly. And when it does, it leaves a raw and red area behind, which may bleed. At times, lesions of thrush may cause pain and your baby might get fussy and wriggle when you bottle-feed her.
Reasons For Developing Thrush
Your baby may have thrush and you may not even know about it. It goes away by itself in normal conditions. However, when there are some changes in either the baby or the environment, the condition gets aggravated. It has been found that babies who are bottle-fed are more prone to it, than those who get breastfeeding. Prolonged sucking causes scraping of your baby’s lining of the mouth. Therefore, even if you have breastfeeding problems, it good to solve them and continue giving your milk directly. Another reason for thrush is stress or the use of antibiotics. In addition to this, babies who fall asleep with bottle nipples or pacifiers in their mouth are susceptible. Mothers, watch out for the nipples and pacifiers! If they are not clean, they can harbor yeast.
Prevention
Treatment
In most of the cases, thrush goes away by itself. The only treatment is to mitigate oral discomfort. You also need to treat sore yeast diaper rashes. There is an antifungal medication available such as Nystatin suspension. You can apply it directly to the affected area, with the help of cotton-tipped applicator, or administer it orally 1-2ml, four times everyday.
If you have more questions, read books and articles and take breastfeeding help from your doctor.
Thrush is common in babies who are bottle-fed. Most of the time, it vanishes without treatment. However, when it gets painful it can be one of the serious breastfeeding problems. In such a case, you may require medical intervention from an expert who is qualified to offer breastfeeding help.
Thrush is common in babies who are bottle-fed. Most of the time, it vanishes without treatment. However, when it gets painful it can be one of the serious breastfeeding problems. In such a case, you may require medical intervention from an expert who is qualified to offer breastfeeding help. For more information visit pregnancy.
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