Thank you to everyone for reponding to the yeast issue. Several ppl have suggested that this case may actually be something else besides yeast, and you may be right. When something LOOKS like yeast and FEELS like yeast though...isn't it posssible that it IS yeast? While both she and her doc are convinced it is yeast, they are open to any and all suggestions. I must admit it looks like yeast to me too - red, shiny, itchy nipples that are excruciatingly painful when suckled. Could a bacterial infection mimic this? ------------------------------------- Norma Ritter IBCLC in upstate NY, USA, where the forecast is for snow showers. <[log in to unmask]> "If not now, when? If not us, who?" R. Hillel