Symptoms of thrush in baby

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Newborn babies often cry and refuse to eat for unknown reasons. Check the baby's mouth, you can find the tongue or cheek has a piece of snow white milk coagulation like patch, which is called "thrush" in medicine, also known as snow mouth. Baby suffering from thrush symptoms to tell you.

Symptoms of thrush in baby

Newborn babies often cry and refuse to eat for unknown reasons. At this time, check the baby's mouth, often can find the tongue or cheek has a piece of snow white milk coagulation like patch, which is called "thrush" in medicine, also known as snow mouth.

Thrush is common in infants under one year old. Most of them occurred in the tongue, cheek and soft palate of the mouth. The main manifestations were milky milk like membrane like substance in the gum, buccal mucosa or the inner side of the lip. At the beginning, white plaque often appears on the surface of the tongue, and then spreads to the gum and cheek. There are patches of white plaque at the site of the disease, and the surrounding mucosa is congested.

When the onset of oral burning pain and dryness, some children with low fever symptoms. In severe cases, macular membrane can affect the throat, trachea or intestinal mucosa, and sometimes cause fever, dyspnea or diarrhea. The baby with this disease will have a tingling feeling when drinking milk, so often crying restless or unwilling to eat milk.

matters needing attention

Babies with thrush usually disappear after a few days of medication, but thrush is particularly easy to recur, so parents should continue to take medication for a few days after the disappearance of the baby's disease to consolidate the curative effect. If it is breast-feeding, then the doctor may use antifungal ointment that can be applied on the breast, but it should be noted that the baby should take medicine after a period of time to avoid vomiting.