I have a lady whom I am convinced has ductal thrush. I sent a note to her doctor suggesting this and requesting she evaluate her for treatment. The patient just called me to tell me that her GP told her that there was no such thing as Ductal Thrush and that she just had engorgement (her baby is 7 weeks old, and a vigerous feeder) and should feed the baby for only 10 minutes and then pump until they were empty. Right... Now I quietly got in a huff asked for the fax number of the doctor and told her I would send them both some information about ductal thrush....Then I dove into my books which I was sure would cover me only to find out that Riordan (1993) and Lawrence (1999) doesn't mention it. Nor the new breastfeeding answer book. Lots on nipple thrush but not one mention that I could find on ductal thrush. I though I was loosing my mind until I hit the Lactnet archives and finally exhaled after seeing the word Ductal thrush (I had begun to think I had made it up somehow). Can someone, please give me a reference that I can use for this lady. Cheers, Mandi Porta, RN, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html