At 08:11 PM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>OK...so I've got a mom and baby with persistent thrush that has not
>responded to Nystatin cream and liquid.  We discussed using gentian
>violet - how-to's and cautions per Dr. Jack's and lactnet's info.  When
>she went to her pharmacy, they did not have GV in stock, and the
>pharmacist told her he did not recommend it and would not order it for
>her.  Arrrgh!

Some people talk too much. One doesn't have to tell a pharmacist what she
is going to do with a product. My clients have had no trouble getting it
here.  Sometimes the pharmacy has to order it, but I suggest that they just
ask for it and not go into a personal history of what its use will be.

I buy a bottle whenever I can to have it on hand, then I put it into small
bottles for the mother because a little goes a long way.  I've wondered if
a pharmacist will ever ask me what I am going to do with it.  I plan to
say, "It is a very effective anti-fungal."

Do you remember last year when a pharmacy refused to sell a dad Second Skin
because he said that it was for his wife's nipples.  But they sell
pacifiers, and bottles and even the stuff that is, unfortunately, put into
them, without any compromise to their integrity.

I have 2 mothers trying Jack's All Purpose Nipple Cream.  I surely hope
that it brings healing.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA, where yeast is taking over the town--and my life.
 Poor moms.
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