Re: Strep question- Z.

[Guest guest]

Ziobro <juliaz@g...> wrote: " Sheila, I think your attitude

about thrush is a little too casual. I was group B strep positive,

had antibiotics during my homebirth with Joanne, and then she and I

struggled with thrush for ten weeks. It made breastfeeding REALLY

hard, and I absolutely was not going to give up, or I would have.

=======>> actually, my attitude about thrush was MY experience,

not professional medical/nursing advice (which I would never give out

in a public forum for legality reasons), but I had antibiotics for

other reasons (IV ampicillin, flagyl AND gentamycin) and I ended up

passing the antibiotic through my breastmilk to my son, who got

thrush for approximately 10-12 weeks. I breastfeed the entire time

WITHOUT any difficulty whatsoever (9 months). The only difficulty was

getting a picture of him WITHOUT a purple mouth since he was on the

gentian violet.

Sorry you had such a rough time, but mine was comparatively easy

beside your experience. God made us all different. Glad my experience

wasnt as horrid as yours or I may have formulated a different

opinion, but as I always encourage in this group... voice your own

experience. No one can down you for that.

My own experience----->>IV Antibiotics-> newborn thrush---> gentian

violet-->purple mouth and nips for 12 weeks-->> no lasting effects of

the thrush and the fashionable purple nips faded.

Again, this is MY own experience and opinion as a medical

professional and is never intended as advice.....better to get thrush

than having a newborn die from untreated GBS (as has been known to

happen).

[Guest guest]

Sheila wrote: " Not a problem, unless its NOT treated. Generally, the

worst thing is the baby most likely will develop thrush (white

patches on mouth/tongue) which is cured easily enough as well.

Relax... "

======>> I meant to add to my previous post that I have never had or

heard of a patient dying of/from thrush but have many infants deathly

ill and/or even die from untreated GBStrep.

The group member asked for anything she could be told about the

positive group B strep and I was trying to reassure her with my

comments about antibiotics taking care of it since the thrush is what

my son ended up with. It wasn't painful for he or I. Just made the

picture taking a little difficult w/ a purple smile.

Of course, no one wants ANYTHING wrong with their newborn, but I'd

take thrush over strep anyday of the week.

sheila