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Angry rant.....
Have just got back from seeing my Dr with Phoebe......
The Saturday before last I had to take Phoebe to the out of hours Dr's at our local hospital (Stafford, enough said) because she had a very white tongue and what looked like a white spot on the roof of her mouth and I was concerned that it was oral thrush. We saw a very nice Dr who did confirm that she did indeed that she had oral thrush and prescribed some medicine that she had to be spoon fed 4 times a day.
She ran out of the medicine last Saturday and she still had the same symptoms. I was concerned that as it hadn't cleared up she needed some more medicine. I took her to the baby drop in centre at my local surgery to see the "baby Dr". When I told him my concerns he asked me if I breast fed her, and said that it was likely to be milk stain. He looked in her mouth and confirmed that she did not have oral thrush and her tongue was milk stained!!!
He asked me who told me that she had thrush and I explained about the other DR. Iam so angry that I have for the last week forced my baby to take a medicine that she clearly didn't like for no reason at all :evil:
The Saturday before last I had to take Phoebe to the out of hours Dr's at our local hospital (Stafford, enough said) because she had a very white tongue and what looked like a white spot on the roof of her mouth and I was concerned that it was oral thrush. We saw a very nice Dr who did confirm that she did indeed that she had oral thrush and prescribed some medicine that she had to be spoon fed 4 times a day.
She ran out of the medicine last Saturday and she still had the same symptoms. I was concerned that as it hadn't cleared up she needed some more medicine. I took her to the baby drop in centre at my local surgery to see the "baby Dr". When I told him my concerns he asked me if I breast fed her, and said that it was likely to be milk stain. He looked in her mouth and confirmed that she did not have oral thrush and her tongue was milk stained!!!
He asked me who told me that she had thrush and I explained about the other DR. Iam so angry that I have for the last week forced my baby to take a medicine that she clearly didn't like for no reason at all :evil:
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For the first 2 weeks of his life my son had a white tongue and me and my OH thought it was milk stain, but then a Dr mentioned that babies with a white tongue meant they had thrush. Now I'm continually paranoid thatv he may have thrush. The Dr checked it for me and said he doesn;t but I can still see a hint of white on his tongue, sometimes a few hours after he has fed, so I'm confused as to what to do.
I've also had a rash on my skin and I've seen 3 'medical professionals' so far and each ojne has told me something different - I'm losing faith in their advice to be honest.
William had oral thrush when he was in special care and his didn't clear for ages (three weeks and two bottle of medicine later!). We were told that it's very hard to tell the difference between milk and thrush spots; the only way to tell is to try and wipe what might be the milk/spots off (not easy with a newborn) so I wouldn't be too angry. The likelihood is that she did have it and the first medicine cleared it up.
I could bitch all day about how much GPs have annoyed me over the years. They're just too trigger happy to dish out drugs, mostly without a diagnosis.
GPs here's a tip - don't guess, try and problem solve!!!
Hope Phoebe is OK now