Breastfeeding and thrush...should I stop nursing?

My poor little 9 day old baby was just diagnosed with a pretty serious case of thrush. The dr. prescribed medication for both of us (although I don't have any symptoms as of yet). Should I stop breastfeeding until her symptoms go away? I'm afraid we'll pass it back and forth between each other. I don't want to stop breastfeeding because I'm afraid she won't take the breast after a day or two of bottle feeding. Any ideas of what to do?

Continue to breastfeed. Do not discard your milk. Your doctor should have given your baby medicine that is in the form of an oral suspension. if he didn't allready tell you to, you should also gently clean your nipples after each feeding and then swab the entire nipple and area around the areola with the medicine. Also, change your bra often so as not to recontaminate. Make sure that you sanitize anything that goes into your baby's mouth after he uses it. There no reason to discontinue breastfeeding.

Whats with the thumbs down? This is medically sound advice. Ask any lactation consultant.

no u can continue to breast feed.. its ok.. just make sure you both take ur prescriptions. you'll be ok.. its not going to aggrevate it or make it worse..

Both of you should take the medication and it should clear up. The only chance of passing it back and forth is if you don't take your medication. I think you can continue to breastfeed and at 9 days old if you don't your milk will probably dry up. Call the dr. to double check but I'm pretty sure you should continue.

Good luck. Thrush sucks.

I'm not real good on this topic... but I'll give you a star, and hope that maybe some of my contacts who are very knowledgeable on breast feeding will see this, and help you out!

Congrats on the new baby!

My wife and son just went through this. She says you can keep breastfeeding but, you should just pump and discard the milk. Hope you are both better soon.

No, don't stop nursing baby. It would be terribly difficult to restart breastfeeding again. Just treat you and baby at the same time. It will go away soon.

From what I understand depsite any discomfort that occurs with thrush you should continue to nurse. I would suggest though that you double check with your doctor first of course.

Here are a few websitse that you might want to take a look at: http://motherlove.com/faq_sorenipples.ph...

http://www.babycenter.com/0_thrush-in-br...

http://www.oz.net/~chotii/fighting_thrus...

Hope all of this helps and that you and baby feel better soon!

Have you considered using nipple shields? This should prevent a possible transfer back and forth. Just sterilise the shields after each feed.