itsmemeg
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Post by itsmemeg on Jun 15, 2018 3:27:49 GMT -6
Can someone tell me the symptoms you’ve experienced with thrush?
DD is 7 weeks old. We’ve had latching issues and will be getting her lip/tongue tie revised next week. But she kills my left side every time she nurses. She leaves my nipple blanched everytime and it’s so painful. I can only tolerate a few minutes of her nursing so I know that breast isn’t fully draining. She hurts my right side too w the bad latch but it’s nothing like the left.
Her tongue is sometimes white but she also has reflux so i just think it’s residual milk.
I’ve read online it could be thrush from the one sided symptoms but I’m not sure.
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Jun 15, 2018 8:47:33 GMT -6
Post by vvvvvfee on Jun 15, 2018 8:47:33 GMT -6
once thrush has spread into your milk ducts, the hallmark symptom is shooting/burning pain when LO nurses. that needs to be treated with an oral antifungal. you can just have thrush on your nipple, which causes pain/sensitivity when latching, and there can also be redness/peeling/flaking. LO can also have persistent white patches in her mouth with either of these. which you can treat with prescription cream. but what you're describing sounds like it might just be a bad latch. have you experimented with other positions, like laid-back nursing (you recline and put baby on your chest, tummy to tummy) or side-lying nursing? if it improves depending on what positions you use, then i think you can be pretty sure it's latch. if you feel like she's still not draining that breast even in other positions, you might want to pump for a few minutes on that side after she nurses. i would expect that the lip/tongue tie correction will help. in the meantime, you could try using an OTC antifungal cream and see if it does anything (it won't hurt anything if you don't have thrush). look for Miconazole (monistat) or clotrimazole (lotrimin), marketed as yeast infection or jock itch cream.
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Post by itsmemeg on Jun 15, 2018 13:15:28 GMT -6
once thrush has spread into your milk ducts, the hallmark symptom is shooting/burning pain when LO nurses. that needs to be treated with an oral antifungal. you can just have thrush on your nipple, which causes pain/sensitivity when latching, and there can also be redness/peeling/flaking. LO can also have persistent white patches in her mouth with either of these. which you can treat with prescription cream. but what you're describing sounds like it might just be a bad latch. have you experimented with other positions, like laid-back nursing (you recline and put baby on your chest, tummy to tummy) or side-lying nursing? if it improves depending on what positions you use, then i think you can be pretty sure it's latch. if you feel like she's still not draining that breast even in other positions, you might want to pump for a few minutes on that side after she nurses. i would expect that the lip/tongue tie correction will help. in the meantime, you could try using an OTC antifungal cream and see if it does anything (it won't hurt anything if you don't have thrush). look for Miconazole (monistat) or clotrimazole (lotrimin), marketed as yeast infection or jock itch cream. Put the anti fungal cream on my nipple? And it’s fine for her to nurse with the cream residue ?
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Post by itsmemeg on Jun 15, 2018 13:41:41 GMT -6
Also FWIW it doesn’t hurt when I pump. And it doesn’t hurt as bad if I keep the sandwich hold on my boob when first latching and she is getting the first letdown
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Jun 15, 2018 14:21:08 GMT -6
Post by vvvvvfee on Jun 15, 2018 14:21:08 GMT -6
itsmemeg, yes, you put the antifungal cream on your nipple. if you apply after she nurses there probably won't be any residue left by the time you go to nurse again. if there is shiny residue, just wipe with a damp cloth. but what you're describing in the 2nd post really sounds like a latch problem.
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