Sindea/thrush etc.

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Hi Sindea. My name is Donna and I am not a doctor, and so I am not prescribing,

just sharing a little bit of what I have read and what I would do in your

situation. More replies in text below. . .

 

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new here and thrush/yeast help needed

 

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My 11 month old son who has some yeast

infection going on in his " private " area and the early stages of

thrush in his mouth.

 

Unfortunately we have both just finished anti-biotics (not my normal

route, but he had strep and an ear infection that would not stop

getting wose, and I had 2 bouts of strep back to back). I am also

nursing, so I am taking acidophilous...

 

### It is my understanding that this is a common cycle. first antibiotics for

strep or whatever and then you pay the piper with thrush and yeast infection.

The antibiotics kill all the good bacteria that keep these things in check, so

they naturally follow a round of anti biotics. ###

 

Ideas? especially need ideas to sooth the pain in both areas... I am

using a GSE mixture to spray on his genitals at each diaper change,

and am also putting lansinoh on it, cuz it is so soothing and a

protectant. in his mouth I am using the GSE mixture... he is so

miserable...

 

### Okay, once again, I am not a doctor, but GSE has similar properties to the

antibiotics. It kills the good stuff too, so you might just be perpetuating the

situation. Externally it might be okay, but the in the mouth dose will also be

going into the bowel and continuing the problem, as would coloidal silver.

 

If it was me I would be using a tea made with olive leave extract, which kills

the bad guys but not the good. The only problem with that is that it tastes

bitter. So, for the baby, you would have to somehow disguise that and that would

require a sweetener and I don't know of any that would not make the thrush

worse.

 

So, another option would be Vit O which can be found at www.rgarden.com It

kills the bad guys and would kill the good guys in the intestines also, except

that it would not make it to the intestines. It would be used up in the stomach

area before it ever reached the bowel. It can be used internally and

externally. I have an e friend who had a stubborn genital rash that the doctor

could not get rid of. She used vit o and in one day it was greatly reduced and

in two it was gone. She said she wanted to line up outside her doctors office

and give it women who were going in with the same mystery problem.

 

Anyway, it is an oxygen product and works well on thrush and athletes foot, and

other fungal annoyances.

 

I agree with what some others have said also, about needing more than plan

acidophilus after a round of abx. I use Inner Garden Flora, which is also

available through the rgarden people. You can check out a list of what it has

at the site. In reality, if you are going for really good re establishing of a

good variety of intestinal flora, you would want to shop around and take several

different formulas, to get a good variety.

 

In the future, you might want to have some Olive Leaf Extract on hand to fight

things like strep and staph, so that this doesn't happen again. Unfortunately,

once you have started down the slippery slope of abx, it is hard not to go back

to them. But Olive leaf is natural and remarkably potent and does not kill the

good guys. Here is a link I found to an online book you can read on the

subject.

 

http://oliveleafextract.com/contents.html olive leaf book

 

As far as soothing the area goes. Fresh aloe, right from a leaf is unbelievably

soothing.

 

On the ear ache thing. A few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide in the ear a few

times a day, might have prevented this whole scenario, which means it could

possibly be a solution in the future.

 

Hope some of this helps.

Not a Doctor,

Donna