Re: thrush

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I was able to get rid of it pretty quickly, but my girlfriend's baby had it for 4 months and the wound up putting a purple dye in his mouth to block the light and kill it that way.

It's also very common for the baby to get a yeast infection in the diaper area (red, pimply looking rash and raw looking skin in the folds). This can also be treated with perscription yeast-infection cream. Desitin or diaper rash ointments will not get rid of this diaper rash.

Thrush and yeast infection are very common after a course of antibiotics, just like in big people! :o) Yeast is present in everyone's body, but something happens to throw the bacterial/yeast relationship out of whack (bacteria keeps the yeast in check), thus the yeast takes over.

My daughter had a 15 day course of antibiotics at birth, and 5 ear infections in 10 months, so I've BEEN THERE AND DONE ALL THAT!!!

Hope the little guy gets over it quickly!

At Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Misti wrote: >
>What is thrush? A friend of ours has a four month old son and the son
>had thrush. I know it is an infection of some type that causes some
>kind of breaking out in the mouth. Where does it come from? Can the
>mother get it too? Thanks!

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