Thrush, yeast and Mastitis

[hyjdan07]

Hello all, sorry it's been a while since I was on the forum-I been very busy with my bundle of joy. Having a problem now, wanted to know if anyone else out there was exp the same thing. Little Dana is 4months now. A few weeks ago I noticed white little patches in her mouth, I phned her Ped. dr phoned in antibio for thrush. a week later she developed yeast on her little bottom. I googled Mastitis as I was told by her having thrush and me breastfeeding that I for certain also had contracted yeast onto my nipples. About two days ago it felt like a ton of bricks had fell onto me, I am having body aches, tender breast/nipples fever and chills. I phoned the dr and was told more that likely I have Mastitis, antibio was phoned in for me also. I know that you can get this infection from blocked ducts, but is it possible to contact it via thrush from my little one? How can I prevent this whole thrush, yeast, mastitis thing from returning. OMG, this does not feel good at all :-/

[sherrysb]

Wipe your breast after the baby eats and you should take acidiphilous (sp) to keep it from returning.  it keeps the flora balanced.  I use to wipe my breast with vinegar (it's an anti septic) after my daughter's feeding.

[prevatt77]

Gavin had it at about 3 months, but I caught his very early.  They gave me a liquid medication for his mouth and a cream for my nipples.  SOmetimes it can be very hard to get rid of.  It's actually hard to get the medication to take affect in his mouth because they are supposed to swish it around in the mouth and an infant cannot do that, so my doctor told me to put the medicine for him and put it all over my nipples before he would eat and that would help too.  You also need to throw away any nipples or pacifiers that has been in her mouth, wash and sterilize all toys that have also been in her mouth.  If you miss a dose of meds it returns very quickly, it will start to re-grow within hours.  If you stay on top of it and follow all the directions on thrush (google it on the internet) you can get rid of it rather quickly.  If you don't they it will stay around and keep getting worse to where she won't want to eat because it will be to painful.  They also gave me a cream for his bottom as well (the medicine started with a N), that went away very quickly once I applied the medicine.

Good Luck and let me know if you have anymore questions.

Debbie