To Jack, Johanna, Diane, Patricia,Sylvia, Kathleen and all of my other Lactnet friends, First, Thank you all for responding! I knew I could search the archives on this subject (which I did; thanks for the nice reminder, Kathleen B), but my purpose was to get 'your own' treatment plan for this particular case.I guess my question wasn't formulated too well! Maybe I had to add ' how would YOU respond to this SPECIFIC situation?' for clarification. So if you still want to respond after the following update, please feel free to do so (perhaps by e-mail, if more appropriate). Second, sometimes it's hard to find out what gentian violet/fenugreek/st.johns wort etc. are called in The Netherlands and if it's the same dosage/composition that you are using. So if there is anyone out there who can enlighten me about dosages and way of administration, please do! Johanna, unfortunately I don't have Kay Hoovers pamphlet on Yeast, but I did find Pat G's (It's great; thanks Sylvia!). Diane, thanks for the info on 'the funny taste'; it was interesting. Patricia, We've got Diflucan (Fluconazole) here in the Netherlands, but thanks for offering to send me some ! (ALL of you are SO GREAT! I'm so happy to be part of this Family) Well allright, enough thank you's for now (hope I didn't forget anyone). Here's the update on the mom: Baby has a rash/ eczema (Asked here how it looks, where it is etc.) Has no white patches in his mouth anymore, so GP told her he got rid of the thrush (AAAACH! How I wish that was true). Mom's nipples and areolas ar red and the skin around it gets affected too, GP thought it could be eczema INSTEAD of thrush, so mom got a 'hormone-ointment' (Don't know what kind). If it doesn't get better by the end of the week her GP is going to refer her to a dermatologist. Mom still thinks that it is thrush, for she still has a stabbing pain after feeds, itchy nipples and flaky areolas. She wants to know if it could be both (thrush and eczema; I think this could be the case, for yeast grows well on affected skin). I also told her to wonder if she recently changed 'body-products' like shampoo, deodorant etc. Well, that's all for now..... by the way the difficult part here is that I haven't seen the mother, she's in another part of the country and everything is going by e-mail.......... Thanks again, off my soapbox for now. Renate Rietveld IBCLC E-Mail : [log in to unmask] Homepage : http://www.casema.net/~rietveld