yeast/thrush

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My son, , had thrush when he was 9 months old. Everyone thought it was

strange that someone as old as he was could have thrush. We gave him

Nystatin to clear it up, but we thought it was making him sick because he

kept throwing up. We stopped the Nystatin and started feeding him yogurt and

the white patches in his month went away. I recently learned that Nystatin

can cause vomiting because it is killing off the yeast. is 3 years old

now and diagnosed with autism. We were told just a few days ago that his

stool analysis showed he was high in yeast. I am beginning to suspect that

he has had a problem with yeast all along which has caused his chronic loose

stools and contributed to his autistic behavior.

Dawn in Denver

Mother of 5 NT, 3 ASD, and 6 months

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Hello listmates,

I are reconnecting after being GFCF for over a year now. Things

are going fine except that my 9 year old (PDD and Down

syndrome) broke out in a thrush infection two weeks ago. We have

not addressed yeast in her system as yet but she is taking

Nystatin now to deal with the infection in her mouth.

I am very worried because kids her age do not ususally get thrush

(it is a nursing baby thing mostly). I am concerned it may indicate

a very compromised immune system (possibly leukemia - kids with

DS have a higher incidence of this). But I have no resource people

locally to tell me if thrush occurs more often in children with

PDD/autism - my doctors think the yeast/PDD thing is overblown

and won't explore it with me.

Have your kids ever had oral thrush? vaginal yeast infections? other

kinds of yeast infections? At what ages? How did you deal with

these?

Any information you can share would be very helpful.

Thanks,

(mom to Evie - DS, PDD - age 9 and Clare age 5)

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