Breast Feeding - Thrush ( Oral Candida Infection)

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2. Breast Feeding - Insufficient Milk
3. Breast Feeding - Compare Breast Milk and Formula
4. Plugged Duct
5. Thrush ( Baby's Oral Candida Infection)
6. Mastitis

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Thrush is defined as condition of infection of the mouth and throat and on the tongue caused by over growth candida fungus in the family of Candida Albicans. it occurs most often in infants and children.

Why the new born gets thrust
Before the baby were born, vitamin K can cross over from the placenta to the digestive system of the baby, leaving the digestive in the yeast free environment. Most baby first come in contact with yeast as they as soon as they are born. Thrush can develop if bad bacteria overwhelms the good one in the digestive track, it can lead to overgrowth of yeast in your baby's mouth as a result of hormonal change of the mother.
It may be caused by yeast passing from the mother during breast feeding as a result of using antibodies or yeast from the mother herself. In new born, the appearance of yeast infection is white patches on the surface of mouth and can not come off.

Test
In the new born, oral thrust diagnosis is done by scraping the surface of the baby's tongue and send the sample for analysis. It is simple, if the test comes back positive, your doctor will prescribed some medicine for the child.

Symptoms
1. White patches on the surface lining of the mouth, tongue, cheeks, gums, tonsils, and palate.
2. Cottage cheese-like appearance and painful
3. Cracking corner of the mouth
4. Loss taste and appetite
5. Mouth sensation
6. Difficulty in swallowing, if it affects the esophagus
7. Irritability
8. Trouble feeding
9. Etc.

Treatments
In most case, if the problem is not serve, there will be no treatment as the thrust will go away in a few weeks. In some cases, your doctor may prescribe Nystatin, the an antifungal medicine whose function is to bind to ergosterol of the fungal cell membrane and kill the fungii, for your baby to apply onto the infected area a few times a day and may be 10 to 14 days.

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