This wonderful first time mom I have worked with has ongoing problems that just never seem to resolve. Baby is now over two months old. Mother had chronic plugged ducts from beginning and treated them appropriately with baby getting better latch, pumping with Symphony, using Lecthin, compresses, homeopathy, etc. She has a history of fibrocystic breasts but these plugged ducts tended to be in a line and were relieved upon nursing or pumping, but came back. She is still taking Procardia for high blood pressure that she had during pregnancy. Baby transfers milk well and has had appropriate weight gains, output, etc. Just when things were improving and breastfeeding was settling in, both developed Thrush. Mother had forgotten about the antibiotics administered during labor. Now, baby has been on Nyastatin and mother on Diflucan for about a week or so. Doctor did not want to prescribe APNO, because she said that there was nothing "red or itchy" on breasts. Mother called the other day in a panic because her plugged ducts were so much worse and came to the conclusion that perhaps, this had been related to Thrush all along and once that would be resolved with Diflucan, so would the plugged ducts. I wondered, but hoped. She has just called and now has about 4-5 milk blisters or blebs, she thinks and wants to aspirate them to relieve the pain, relieve the worsening plugged ducts and get her milk flowing. She says that olive oil feels good, but she does not want to use the Nyastatin cream the doc gave her to apply to her nipples any longer, b/c she thinks that has caused all these blebs. Of course, to add to the mess -- she is returning to her demanding job as an attorney in the next couple of weeks! Your thoughts??? Help! Thanks, Ann Ann Conlon-Smith, IBCLC Triangle Lactation Consultants _www.trianglelactation.com_ (http://www.trianglelactation.com/) *********************************************** 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