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> I have permission from the mother to post this question.
> A new mother of a two week old infant has noticed that her babys mouth
> smells foul " like body odor"
I remember a dear LLL friend whose daughter the same age as mine about 3-4
months old had "bad breath" for quite some time before an X-ray to rule out
sinus infection was done. The X-ray revealed that she had a small screw in
one of her nostrils. The tissue had grown around it, and was causing a low
grade infection. Big sister had put it in there unbeknownst to anyone. It
is unusual for a nursing baby to have bad breath, and this was occurring
without any symptoms of a URI or a sinus infection. Luckily it was able to
be fairly easily removed during out-patient surgery. But of course little
one had to have general anesthesia for the surgery.
Mary-Jane Sackett, RN, IBCLC, RLC
Pittsfield, MA
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