Experience with diflucan for thrush?

We have been battling thrush since the babies were three weeks old. After many weeks of nystatin, the next step is to treat the babies with Diflucan. The doctor has been holding off on this because it is a stronger medicine. Does anyone have experience using Diflucan for thrush? Any thoughts? We have also tried gentian violet and have been diligent about the nystatin and boiling and washing items in contact with both babies. We are starting to think the thrush will never go away. It doesn't seem to bother the babies now, but when we stop the nystatin it starts to spread in their mouth from a small bit to more. Eek!!

 

Are you breast feeding? If so make sure you are being treated too!

Thrush was the pits. I had it with the boys and with Annabella. It was worse with her. Ouch. The nystatin though usually did the trick.

How often are you boiling, etc? Have you sorted things out for each baby? When my boys had it-one got everything blue-blue pacifiers blue bottles. The other got everything green(to this day too! Ha!). There was no mixing of anything between them. If you haven't done that yet, I'd do that too.

Good luck!!! I hope this does the trick!

Oh and make sure you are doing the meds after every single feed too.

 

Thrush is just a yeast infection. Diflucan is what they general use in adults pretty readily. I had it as an adult from using my inhaler and it hurts so I'd treat it asap

 

We battled thrush with the twins, thanks to the antibiotic I had to go on for my bladder infection It was a long battle. At 6wks, along with other things, when the thrush came back AGAIN I quit breastfeeding. I was already supping for one baby, and then thrush for about the 4th time just completely overwhelmed me and i quit.

But, yes I agree with teh above, and if I'd been given the diflucan option I would have jumped at it. The nystatin never did completely clear it up.

 

My kids have never had it, but I ended up with it myself about a year ago (not sure how/where I got it - I was on an antibiotic for strep and very run down at the time, though). I went to the doctor at 9am, took the Diflucan at 10am, and by noon, I could already see results. Within a day, it was totally gone and didn't come back (and in my case, it had spread enough that I also had a vaginal yeast infection).

 

Yes! Do the diflucan!

We had thrush for 6 weeks before they prescribed the babies the oral diflucan. I had already taken it for two weeks initially and we did oral nystatin for the babies and nystatin for my nipples. Well, they had it so bad in their mouths it wasn't clearing up. I had my nipples under control doing vinegar/water rinses and religiously using the nystatin, but the diflucan cleared them up, then I continued my nipple regimen for about 2 weeks after their mouths were clear.

Then the thrush was finally gone! The diflucan worked great.

If you haven't been treated with diflucan, then all three of you should do it at the same time. It's a 2-week course of diflucan with a first day loading dose for everybody (basically, a double dose on day 1).