antibiotics

[short cut sally]

There is a medicated mouth rinse that is made for thrush..can't think of the name..i just remember "swish and swallow" for pts. with thrush.

[solobiker]

Thanks for your input. I actually have been taking acidophilus and also eating yougurt. From my other research I found out taking the supplement goldenseal could help. I have been trying this out for about 2 weeks without any success. I was on the medication Nystatin for a little while which didn't do much. Thanks again and wish me luck to get rid of this, it really isn't very much fun and it all started with going on a simple bike ride and getting stung by something, ugh

[Mr. Bloom]

It still ceases to amaze me how physicians don't advise patients about the need for yogurt, acidophilus, kefir, etc when on antibiotics.

I hope you feel better soon! I hate the effect that antibiotics have on me!

[makbike]

When I'm on antibiotics I double my dose of acidophilus. I take a normal dose in the morning and another dose with dinner. I figure the antibiotics are killing off a lot of my good flora so extra doses can't hurt me.

When this first happened to me years ago and my doctor finally figured out what was going on she told me yogurt did not have enough good bacteria in to reculture my gut. Thus she suggested I visit the local health food store for acidophilus and suggested I increase the normal dose until things calmed down in my gut (it took just a few days). I hope you have similar speedy results.

[crazybikinchic]

Mycelex Troche, Clotrimazole (generic), is another antibiotic for thrush. It is an orally dissintigrating tablet.

[OakLeaf]

Nystatin. That's what shelly was thinking of. It's very safe.

+1 on the probiotics. If you're going to the expense of supplements, get the kind that are kept in the store's fridge, and have an enteric capsule. Otherwise you may as well just eat yogurt.

[KnottedYet]

A friend's baby had thrush, and the pediatrician told them to put a dab of plain yogurt in her mouth (the kind with no pectin or other fillers, just milk and bacteria) every hour or so. I got the impression they were trying to keep her mouth yogurt-y so the bacters could jump on the thrush on-site.