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>Woman with a five month old, breastfeeding.
>Just after he was born he was diagnosed with trush. Baby got nystatin labaz.
>After three courses (don't know how long) they thought it was under control.
>Feedings became more pleasant. Unfortunatly the trush came back with mom
>(or never left). After the whole show of nystatin and daktarin (which made
>her nipples crack), she still thinks it isn't gone. She even thinks it's
>worse.
I've had 2 clients clear their persistent thrush by the moms taking
nystatin capsules. One even commented that all along she'd had a funny
taste in her mouth, and felt her own tongue might have been a little coated
toward the back. When she took the capsules (for a month total), her taste
returned to normal. Both clients were reluctant (or had docs who were
reluctant) to use diflucan.
Oral nystatin isn't well absorbed from the g-i tract, so it really
"shouldn't" help with nipple thrush, but I've wondered: might some moms be
reinfecting themselves and their babies from their own mouths? We moms do
a lot of hand-mouth-baby stuff, from kisses to licking a finger to take
baby off breast, and perhaps their thrush persisted because no one had
gotten to every source of their infection? Anyway, it worked. One mom -
who had no visible signs of thrush in mom or baby - was painfree for the
first time in 9 months!
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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