Infant yeast infection– Experienced only please.?
My 11 month old has had a real run of it this winter. Every virus that can hit her has– she has a 5 year old brother and they are in daycare together in the worst virus season on record. I can’t wait for May!
Here’s the situation:
2 weeks ago she got tonsillitis (yeah an 11 month old!) and developed a double ear infection as a result (she is super prone to resistant ear infections– we go to the ENT in a few weeks.) She was put on Augmentin– which is very strong and upsets her stomach sometimes. We give her Florastor at 2 feedings a day when she has an antibiotic to try and keep her little digestive system healthy. 4 days into the antibiotic, she caught her brother’s stomach virus. Last Wednesday she had diarrhea 16 times and no wet diapers. She also developed a yeast infection in her diaper area very rapidly (not shocking considering.) Her doctor gave us Nystatin to apply 4 times a day for a week. The diarrhea is just subsiding now and she had her last antibiotic dose this morning. The yeast (which was just red and irritated and PAINFUL) was looking better yesterday, now looks less widespread, but seems to have moved from the front of her pubic area to her leg creases and labia. It has also gotten little white pimples or blisters. Obviously I’ll call her doctor in the morning and back we’ll go, but are there any words of wisdom from someone who’s been there?
We are keeping her diaper area very clean, bathing her in colloidal oatmeal for the irritation and using a zinc-based cream when not applying the Nystatin. Oh– she’s teething too. POOR THING!
Thank you for your advice!
I LOVE YOU BOTH!!! I am going to work with both excellent suggestions– the Domeboro sounds like what we should do first– do you get yours from a specialty-type pharmacy or could i do Target?
The yogurt is helpful too and I looked up pau d’arco and it gave me a great idea. We live in Austin and the seasonal mold is horrible at times here. The mold allergies make us so miserable. We will try the tea for that. I may also try it on baby’s diaper area tomorrow.
Only problem now– picking a "best answer" tomorrow!
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my three year old sounds like your little one. she has had to many yeast infections and rashes to count and she is allergic to everything under the sun.
they also gave me the nystatin for her and it would get better then worse.
finally i asked my pharmacist what they recommended over the counter and they gave me something called Domeboro packs.
they are otc but you have to ask the pharmacist for them.
all you do is dissolve one pack in 16 oz of warm water and soak a cloth in the solution.
do not ring the liquid out and fold and place in a clean diaper. put the diaper on for 30 minutes and let it do its magic.
after one application it almost completely took all of the swelling and bumps and swelling out of it. and by the next day it was gone.
im telling you i absolutely live by this product and it really is magic for me!
by the way i am in the U.S. dont know if its offered anywhere else.
EDIT: wanted to add that this was my last resort after going through about 3 different prescriptions and we also tried budrous, desitin, a&b ointment, everything and after all of that failed this not only worked but got the job done right away
I got it at walmart so i imagine you can get it at target.
and i dont mind about the best answer as long as it helps your little one i know how it is and it aint pretty
aaawww, poor baby, i know she feels horrible
yogurt is the best thing for yeast infections, plain yogurt, feed it to her and you can also apply it topically, also i use pau d’arco on myself but have never used it on a child before so i would say do some research first.
also, as far as the ear infections go, this sounds weird but have you ever thought about chiropractic, i’ve known several mothers who took their children that had constant issues with ear infections and they said it helps tremendously.