sylvia had esophageal thrush, so has one of my twins and i’m pretty sure i had it while i was on meds for MRSA. diflucan is the best medication to treat it. it seems like the ped gi put my kids on it for a week to 10 days.
if you are still nursing your son, you both need to be treated or it will never go away. i think we battled it for about 6 months or more until i finally figured it out and asked the ped gi if sylvia could have thrush with out it being obvious—that is when he told us it could be in her esophagus. (our family doc had told me she couldn’t have it) we didn’t scope her since the ped gi is 3 hours away, but since we knew we had been battling yeast, he went ahead and treated her.
it didn’t take very long and she started eating, sleeping, and gaining weight. the ped gi decided that we should probably put her on a course of diflucan every time she had antibiotics—but i think we only did it once after that. she has rarely been on antibiotics.
we actually could see kassie’s thrush because she had a scope for reflux. she had not had any thrush in her mouth that we were aware of.
i had really painful oral thrush and then got really bad chest pain with my reflux—-since i was on antibiotics i figured it had to be esophageal thrush. the doc gave me some swish and swallow nystatin—and it actually helped relieve symptoms, which surprised me because i don’t have alot of faith in nystatin. i did take some oral diflucan when i was done with the antibiotics, though.
good luck—let me know if it clears up ok for you.
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