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Thrush

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kiddo has the white spots on his tongue and i've had slight shooting nipple pain. i've been taking a probiotic 2x a day (acidolpholus/bifidus), eating lots of activia yogurt and rinsing my nipples with a vinegar solution, but everything seems the same. been going on for maybe a week and a half. i'm also breaking a probiotic capsule and letting LO suck it off my finger per these instructions: https://www.nbci.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:candida-protocol&catid=5:information&Itemid=17

i have my 6 week postpartum check tomorrow so i'll bring it up there. anything else i should try/be doing? i'm on the fence about trying gentian violet since it's so messy, but i've read the anti-fungal stuff pedis prescribe aren't very effective.

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  • ec3under4ec3under4
    I wouldn't do the GV if I were you but maybe that's just me. I had a horrible case of thrush that lasted for WEEKS. It was miserable. What worked for us was a combination of grapefruit seed extract(both the pill form and a mixture of it and water applied to the nipples after every feeding) and a prescription of 14 days of Diflucan. Have you checked kellymom? They have some great info about it. 
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    the grapefruit seed extract is awesome. i use it now on myself whenever i feel a vaginal yeast infection coming on too.  

    when we had thrush, i did two full rounds of diflucan and everything the LC told me to do until i finally caved and did the GV. GV was the only thing that worked for me.  it will make lo's mouth dark and your nipple dark for a few days, but i just wore a black tshirt to bed and put a big towel down in her bassinet to prevent any stains on the sheets.  i put it on a qtip for her to suck on and it didnt get on her face or clothes.

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    where can i find GV and grapefruit seed extract? do i need to go to a people's pharmacy kind of place or will walgreen's have them? i've gone through all the resource links on kellymom and was a bit overwhelmed by all the different tactics.
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    I got the grapefruit seed extract at sprouts and I think that peoples carries the gv. The key is to get the pure grapefruit seed extract as opposed to grapeseed oil which is not the same. 

    Here is an article, I think this might be the one that boxer gave me but I'm not sure.

    https://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/thrush.html

     Per kellymom, the vitamin e at the end of the article is contraindicated and not recommended for some reason. I will say that the grapefruit seed extract when applied to your nipples can make them really, really dry. So, I sometimes used vitamin e but would apply it right after nursing and then by the time I fed again, most of it was gone. However, I think you could just put some olive oil on it and that would work too.

    As far as the oral extract, I can't remember the exact dosage but I think it was 250mg for 3x a day. I remember that I would pop like 3 pills, 3 times a day. I wasn't worried too much about overdosing on it  because I was really desperate! :) Also, when applying to your nipples I would always mix a bowl of it every morning and then apply is with cotton balls. I would use a new cotton ball every time that I dipped it in the bowl that way I wasn't infecting my mixture. Make sure to let your nipples breathe as much as possible, wash your nursing bras in hot water, use disposible nursing pads until it's gone and make sure to change them often! 

    Hope this helps! I'm so sorry, thrush sucks. 

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    imageec3under4:

    I got the grapefruit seed extract at sprouts and I think that peoples carries the gv. The key is to get the pure grapefruit seed extract as opposed to grapeseed oil which is not the same. 

    Here is an article, I think this might be the one that boxer gave me but I'm not sure.

    https://drjaygordon.com/breastfeeding/thrush.html

     Per kellymom, the vitamin e at the end of the article is contraindicated and not recommended for some reason. I will say that the grapefruit seed extract when applied to your nipples can make them really, really dry. So, I sometimes used vitamin e but would apply it right after nursing and then by the time I fed again, most of it was gone. However, I think you could just put some olive oil on it and that would work too.

    As far as the oral extract, I can't remember the exact dosage but I think it was 250mg for 3x a day. I remember that I would pop like 3 pills, 3 times a day. I wasn't worried too much about overdosing on it  because I was really desperate! :) Also, when applying to your nipples I would always mix a bowl of it every morning and then apply is with cotton balls. I would use a new cotton ball every time that I dipped it in the bowl that way I wasn't infecting my mixture. Make sure to let your nipples breathe as much as possible, wash your nursing bras in hot water, use disposible nursing pads until it's gone and make sure to change them often! 

    Hope this helps! I'm so sorry, thrush sucks. 

    thanks! super helpful. i've been walking around the house half naked to air them out and am thinking of sunbathing in the nude in my backyard to get some sunshine on them. desperate times calls for desperate measures!!! 

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  • ssincassinca
    Thrush is AWFUL, I've had it twice now. The only thing that worked for me was GV, I swear I tried everything. The easiest way to give it to baby was dip a qtip in it and let him suck on it. I made sure to put Vaseline around his mouth so only his lips were purple, but he still looked like a freak and we didn't leave the house. Good thing about the GV is it should cure it within 3 days, the other methods take weeks:/ I only needed to do it once though.
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    And the stains go away after a day, so it's not too bad.
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    imagessinca:
    And the stains go away after a day, so it's not too bad.

    ok that's good to know. i've just heard how big of a mess it can be. 

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    imageel_twirpo:

    imagessinca:
    And the stains go away after a day, so it's not too bad.

    ok that's good to know. i've just heard how big of a mess it can be. 

    meh, I just put us both in white so I could bleach the clothe if needed. It was super messy the first time when I put it only on my nips, don't recommend that. Having baby suck on the qtip was easier. I couldn't find the GV locally (no longer live in Austin) so I hope you're able to get it at peoples and get better asap. I feel your pain, thrush was 10x worse than labor for me.
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    That should be clothes, not clothe. It's not letting me edit on the iPhone for some reason:(
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