Hi all,

Chatted with a mom today who is also an IBCLC.  Her baby had a horrid case of
thrush; had tried a lot of things.  I had recommended GV; her husband e-mailed
Jack and got all his information on it.  She diluted it to 1/2%, applied it
once a day for three days.  The thrush went away, but the baby's tongue
swelled up like a strawberry.  He couldn't curl it at all, screamed in pain
when she tried to put him to breast.  Took 5 days for the tongue to go back to
normal....and then the thrush came back.

Has anyone experienced this?  Heard of this as an uncommon/rare side effect?

Mom persevered -- her doc FINALLY put her on Diflucan which cleared it once
and for all, but it took 2 months.  The baby is now 6 months and still
nursing; things are finally going smoothly.

Jan Barger, in cool and cloudy Wheaton where they went ahead despite a horrid
thunderstorm (which I wish I could have exported to Florida's east coast), and
had the Chicago fireworks last night.