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2sickkids
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Baby has an uri and his ng keeps clogging. Is that common? His throat is red and has white spots but tested neg 4 strep anyone know what else causes that?
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2sickkids
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Huh no antibiotics ever they have never even given any for his staph a or mrsa. But I wonder if it could be thrush.
HollyCatheryn
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Usually, but by no means always, thrush can be seen as white bumps or a whitish coating on the inside of the cheeks and/or tongue as well as the throat. It can get onto the lips and cause a reddish ring around the lips (it appears to be chapped, as from licking the lips too much) and/or the corners of the mouth to crack. Thrush is yeast and yeast thrives on sugars. Most perenteral feedings are high in glucose. This could be enough to trigger the yeast overgrowth. There is a list of things you can do at home to treat thrush on <A href="http://www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/wellness">www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/wellness</A>. Thrush can make the mouth quite sore and painful, so do treat it. It can also spread into the gut. It tends to be more difficult to treat in the gut, though absolutely cureable. A healthy body always has yeast in it, the problem come when the yeast is not kept balanced by the other bacteria and it grows beyond healthy, normal levels. Hope that helps you.
my son had some type of virus in his mouth, similiar to cold sore. He was only 22 months at the time and couldn't articulate what he was feeling, he just refused to eat or drink. We took him to the ER for IV fluids and they prescribed a homemade mouthwash to coat and soothe the sores. It was mint Maalox, a small aomount of Listerine (not too much for little kids), and I think some baking soda. It worked pretty good. If your baby has thrush do not use the Listerine, it will make thrush worse. Hope this helps.
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2sickkids
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The doctor was sure it was strep but the test was neg so she was confused. I asked about the thrush and the said it didn't look like that so I don't know. Thankx for givin some answers. Holly I like you site I think the whole breastfeeding thing is great. Did you dc some of your meds to breastfeed? I really wanted to b-feed the baby but I needed meds for diabetes and a bleeding ulcer the ulcer med causes stunted growth because it passes thru the milk I had to dc them while expecting cause it had not been tested on pregnant women.
HollyCatheryn
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<P>When pregnant, I discontinued my anti-depressant, sleep med, and Prilosec. I took a substitute for Prilosec through the first two trimesters and then restarted Prilosec in the third on the advice of my docs. When breastfeeding I was able to take all the regular maintenance meds I needed. I opted not to take Cipro as an antibiotic because of the side-effects it has on joints and the concern of that passing through my milk. On my Specific Concerns of Breastfeeding page (<A href="http://www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/specific_concerns_of_breastfeeding">www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/specific_concerns_of_breastfeeding</A>) there is a link to check out the safety of medications during pregnancy or breastfeeding. There are more links from there to find if there are any more current recomendations and details about the safety (whether it is related to dose or method of delivery or stage in development) of particular medications. First, go ahead and try the yeast rememdies and see if they work. The thrush I get in my mouth does not look like typical thrush. The home remedies work quite quickly, you should see significant improvement within 2 days if it is yeast and you are using the remdies liberally enough.Second, When I was nursing, only antibiotics were of concern, but depending on the meds you are/were on this may not be the case. There are options for donated milk. Many milk banks require certain diagnoses or a prescription from a doctor in order to provide you with donor breast milk. Because it can affect the health of a baby with CF so dramatically, most doctors are willing to write that prescription for you (if it is needed). The other option is to search for alternative drugs to treat your condition(s). Sometimes there are natural (alternative) remedies or therapies that work just as well or better and with fewer side-effects. Other times there are older medications that work differently, yet provide the same results. You also want to weigh the gravity or severity of the risk of exposure to a drug with the vast and numerous benefits of breastfeeding. I could have put my daughter on a bottle those times that I needed antibiotics, because they did cause yeast-imbalances in her as well as myself. But, for me, knowing that this was the extent of the risk to her of that particular medication, I believed it was worth it for the maximum benefits of continuing to nurse. You can read some of the reasons I chose to continue nursing through antibiotics (even though I could have temporarily weaned her and resumed nursing after I was done taking antibiotics - this would have been our choice if I had had to have a med that was strongly contraindicated) on <A href="http://www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/nursing_victory">www.geocities.com/MurrensNatureMama/nursing_victory</A>. It takes a lot of time and energy to be a truly informed consumer - even as studious as I am, I can look back and identify times when I was not well-informed - but it is infinitely worth it for the benefits to your and your baby's health!</P>
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2sickkids
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Saw the doctor again they told me white spots in the throat tend to be a symptom of a viral infection. I didn't know that. So they did a culture and are gonna tell us if the baby is growing something new.