Antibiotics and preventing thrush

[Jeanne Clelland]

I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to prevent
me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly take
acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time as
the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be doing?

Jeanne

[Jan]

Jeanne Clelland > wrote in message >...
> I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
> infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to prevent
> me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly take
> acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time as
> the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be doing?
>
> Jeanne

Take it 1-2 hours after the antibiotic. If you take it at the same
time, the antibiotic will kill the acidopholus.

[Clisby]

Jeanne Clelland wrote:
> I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
> infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to prevent
> me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly take
> acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time as
> the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be doing?
>
> Jeanne


When my son was taking amoxycillin for ear infection, I dosed both of us
with acidophilus. I took 3 capsules a day, with meals. I timed his to
be in between the 2 doses of antibiotic in a 24 hour period. I can't
recall which type of acidophilus I used - I got it from a pharmacy, and
it had to be kept refrigerated. (Neither of us got thrush, btw.) If I
were you, I'd give it to the baby, too; or possibly feed him yogurt with
acidophilus.

Clisby

[Jeanne Clelland]

In article >,
Clisby > wrote:

> When my son was taking amoxycillin for ear infection, I dosed both of us
> with acidophilus. I took 3 capsules a day, with meals. I timed his to
> be in between the 2 doses of antibiotic in a 24 hour period. I can't
> recall which type of acidophilus I used - I got it from a pharmacy, and
> it had to be kept refrigerated. (Neither of us got thrush, btw.) If I
> were you, I'd give it to the baby, too; or possibly feed him yogurt with
> acidophilus.


Thanks! She's not on solids quite yet, so giving it to her could be a
trick. :-(

Jeanne

[Irene]

Clisby > wrote in message >...
> Jeanne Clelland wrote:
> > I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
> > infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to prevent
> > me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly take
> > acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time as
> > the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be doing?
> >
> > Jeanne
>
>
> When my son was taking amoxycillin for ear infection, I dosed both of us
> with acidophilus. I took 3 capsules a day, with meals. I timed his to
> be in between the 2 doses of antibiotic in a 24 hour period. I can't
> recall which type of acidophilus I used - I got it from a pharmacy, and
> it had to be kept refrigerated. (Neither of us got thrush, btw.) If I
> were you, I'd give it to the baby, too; or possibly feed him yogurt with
> acidophilus.
>
Hmmm...would taking acidophilus help prevent thrush in a newborn, if
the mom is having antibiotics during labor for Group B strep?
Obviously, the newborn wouldn't be able to have yogurt!

Irene
GBS+, EDD 4/10/04!

[Clisby]

Irene wrote:
> Clisby > wrote in message >...
>
>>Jeanne Clelland wrote:
>>
>>>I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
>>>infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to prevent
>>>me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly take
>>>acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time as
>>>the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be doing?
>>>
>>>Jeanne
>>
>>
>>When my son was taking amoxycillin for ear infection, I dosed both of us
>>with acidophilus. I took 3 capsules a day, with meals. I timed his to
>>be in between the 2 doses of antibiotic in a 24 hour period. I can't
>>recall which type of acidophilus I used - I got it from a pharmacy, and
>>it had to be kept refrigerated. (Neither of us got thrush, btw.) If I
>>were you, I'd give it to the baby, too; or possibly feed him yogurt with
>>acidophilus.
>>
>
> Hmmm...would taking acidophilus help prevent thrush in a newborn, if
> the mom is having antibiotics during labor for Group B strep?
> Obviously, the newborn wouldn't be able to have yogurt!
>
> Irene
> GBS+, EDD 4/10/04!

Couldn't hurt. I didn't even think of this when I got antibiotics for
GBS (didn't get thrush), but if it had occurred to me, I'd have taken it.

Clisby

[Clisby]

Jeanne Clelland wrote:
> In article >,
> Clisby > wrote:
>
>
>>When my son was taking amoxycillin for ear infection, I dosed both of us
>>with acidophilus. I took 3 capsules a day, with meals. I timed his to
>>be in between the 2 doses of antibiotic in a 24 hour period. I can't
>>recall which type of acidophilus I used - I got it from a pharmacy, and
>>it had to be kept refrigerated. (Neither of us got thrush, btw.) If I
>>were you, I'd give it to the baby, too; or possibly feed him yogurt with
>>acidophilus.
>
>
>
> Thanks! She's not on solids quite yet, so giving it to her could be a
> trick. :-(
>
> Jeanne

Yeah - the bottle I had said it could be dissolved in water or milk, but
luckily I didn't have to try that. My son was 11 months old, so I just
sprinkled it on cereal or applesauce. He never objected, so it must not
taste too bad.

Clisby

[Em]

"Jeanne Clelland" > wrote in message
> I just got put on a two-week course of amoxycillin for a sinus
> infection, so of course I want to do everything I can to try to
prevent
> me or DD (almost 6 months old) from getting thrush. I'll certainly
take
> acidopholus - but when's the best time to take it? At the same time
as
> the amoxycillin, or in between doses? Anything else I should be
doing?

I had to take a course of antibiotics when DS was a week old due to an
infection I had following his birth. I was very paranoid about us
getting thrush from it. I ate yogurt daily and took Caprylic Acid
supplements (my mom swears by that as a yeast infection treatment). We
didn't get thrush. You can buy Caprylic Acid at health food stores.

Best wishes to you!

--
Em
mama to L-baby, 6.5 months old!

[Jeanne Clelland]

Thanks, all! As it happened, we were just about ready to start solids
anyway, so we went ahead and tried rice cereal. She LOVES it, and I've
been mixing some acidopholus into that, as well as taking it myself.
One week in, and no sign of yeast problems so far! (Now let me find
some wood to knock on...)


Jeanne