Kathy,
You posted :

"Hi. There is an association ...

According to Ruth Lawrence's text, 1999, BF: A Guide for the Medical
Profession, p. 610, "Invasive candidal infection occurs infrequently,
usually when the individual has other illness, impaired resistance to
infection (HIV, Diabetes mellitus, neutropenia; decreased cell-mediated
immunity in premature infants), and disrupted normal mucosal and skin
bariers and has received antiboitics or corticosteroids."

I would agree with this except for the "rare" part.
Kathleen"

It is rare. Ruth's text says "invasive". Oral thursh isn't really invasive.
If this baby was diabetic, type 1, thrush would be the least of it. He would
get very sick, very fast.
Rob


Rob Cordes, DO, FAAP, FACOP
Wilkes Barre, PA
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