>breast milk culture - results after 48 hours came back: 2+ skin flora >(stapylococcus epidermidis/diphtheroids); 1+ serratia liquefaciens. No >yeast seen. My question: how long should a culture be grown to truly >say NO YEAST, and is it appropriate for her to be placed on diclox for >this skin flora? Hi Janna, (1) antibiotics are NOT required for staph epidermidis - this is normal skin flora (it is not staph aureus, which may require antibiotics) (2) yeast / candida may take 7 days (most labs only grow it for 48 hours b/c vaginal candida will have grown by then - b/c many more organisms present) At present, I see little point in trying to grow candida. Lisa Amir MBBS, MMed, IBCLC in Melbourne, Australia *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html