How can I clean thrush?

My 2 week old has thrush the doctor gave me medicine for him and said to sanitize his pacifier and any bottles he used. I breastfeeding and don’t usually pump he only had a bottle like twice. But what should I do to sanitize my breast I guess lol yes I shower and keep clean is there any other precautions to take

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Usually they give you a medicine to take to

I had to use canesten on my nipples

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They gave me a medicine to put on my nipples. I just had to rinse it off whenever violet went to nurse then reapply it.

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Coconut oil cured my son’s thrush within a day. The medicine for some reason didn’t work for him. I put it on my nipples, any bottle nipples.

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Did they give your baby nystatin? If they did I was told to wash nipples with warm soapy water, pat dry and apply on nipples. It worked for us.

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Gentian Violet! Find at older pharmacy. Apply twice daily morning and night for 3-5 days. THIS STAINS HORRIBLY. BUT IT WORKS

Just wash as normal. Rubbing breastmilk around the area and letting them air dry helps.

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Use the thrush meds on your babas mama! Thrush on your nips is no joke!

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careful. you can pass it back and forth. if you can I would try and pump and feed thru a bottle

Get genuine violet. It treats you and baby. Just put a drop on your nipple … Everything will turn purple for a day or two but it’s way more effevtive than the antibiotics and let me tell you the worst pain ive ever felt was not giving birth med free it was when the thrush got into my mill ducts. Even mastitis didnt hurt as bad as that did

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Make sure u have dry breasts

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I just found out my daughter has it to. And the cream they gave me for her. I’m suppose to use on my nipples. And they gave me stuff to put in her mouth. I’m not 100percent sure how all it works, bc this hasn’t happened to me before, but if u need someone to msg about it I’m here :slight_smile:

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They gave me nilstat. I think it’s called and told me just to put that on my nipples.

We used gentian violet for our babies it stains and will stain there mouth for a couple days but its all natural

This is the best website, you’ll find many resources here on dealing with thrush. My son developed an allergy to nystatin so we tried gentian violet and it does work but it is super messy! Thrush Resources - KellyMom.com

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If you can purchase mouth swabs or a soft toothbrush babies have a tendency of drooling out medicine or swallowing to fast it helps to swab it around there mouth kudos for breastfeeding change your nursing pads often.wash your bras daily. Cocunut oil is great and will make a difference thats all i used for lotion on myself and baby kept a container in the shower so it would soften apy it all over after bathing myself and baby goid luck mommas.may not be a hygeine issue at could be diet.acidophylus milk for you could help it has probiotics that help.

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My doctor told me to throw away all of her pacifiers and buy new cuz the bacteria no matter what wasn’t going to be removed from them.

Make a solution of 1 part vinegar and 3 parts water. Keep it handy in a little squeeze bottle - to apply to your areolar areas to change the skins pH - kills the yeast (fungus). Use it after AND before nursing. It’s the sweet lactose in your milk that tend to harbor the thrush fungi (yeast)

Find someone who can talk it out. And don’t look in his mouth for three days.

Use some of his meds in between feedings but it within the ducts… Continue to nurse though

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