Thrush of breast vessels with breastfeeding

Candidiasis for women is a quiet and inconspicuous enemy, which attacks when you least expect it. As practice shows, it happens not only vaginal, but also affects the mammary glands.

Usually you can cope with this problem in a few days, but when breastmilk thrush occurs during breastfeeding, you have to be resourceful and careful not to harm the baby.

How to recognize thrush on the mammary glands with GV?

Since such a misfortune with a woman can happen only with breastfeeding, the symptoms of breast milkworm are not known to everyone, and they can be confused with inexperience with mastitis or lactostasis. It should be suspected that something is wrong if the following deviations occur:

• The nipples are painted in bright pink, inflamed color;
• suddenly began vaginal candidiasis on the background of unpleasant sensations in the mammary glands;
• swelling in the nipple, their soreness, itching, small-bubbling rash or peeling;
• nipples can be perfectly normal colors, but at the same time, be sharply painful at any touch;
• there are cracks in the nipples that do not heal, despite the treatments, and sometimes have a white coating;
• acute pain in the nipples, which happens during the application of the baby to the chest and immediately after feeding;
• pain inside the breast - acute or dull, drawing;
• redness under the breast, the appearance of rashes and wet spots in this area.

As soon as the nursing mother discovered one or a set of similar symptoms that speak about breast milkweed, diagnosis and immediate treatment that a qualified doctor should prescribe is necessary.

This is an insidious disease, and the woman will need a consultation of a surgeon, gynecologist, pediatrician, and also need to take a scraping from the nipples and hold a buck to determine the true cause of the problem.

Treatment of thrush on the mammary glands

To combat candidiasis on the nipples will require a set of measures that includes medical treatment, compliance with hygiene rules, as well as traditional medicine methods, because they are very effective for thrush on the mammary glands.

1. Breast as much as possible should be open, you should abandon the absorbent pads for nursing.
2. From the diet will need to remove all sweets and yeast dough - all that, from which the pathogenic microflora grows.
3. As a recovery of microflora you will need to take funds such as Lineks, Yogurt in capsules, lacto- and bifidobacteria.
4. Several times a day, the nipples should be washed with a solution of soda - 1 teaspoon per glass of water.
5. As the main treatment used antifungal ointments and creams - Nystatin, Nizoral, Monistat, Miconazole, Lamisil, Terbinafrin.

Knowing how to treat thrush of mammary glands, the woman recovers already after 2-3 days, but the treatment should be continued until tests show the absence of a pathogenic fungus.