Coated Tongue...

Salt water gargles might help.

These treatments are available by prescription: Fungilin lozenges. Nilstat. Diflucan.

Ivy (groggy)/

I have had chronic thrush for 4 years. I use nystatin when it gets bad. It's prescription liquid that you swish and spit or swish and swallow but remember to follow the directions around when to do it. I find that it really helps just before bed and at least a half hour before or after meals. I have also had goos results wiht Aloe Juice. Tastes terrible but it is good for oral hygiene. It was a godsend when I had a tooth removed.

I've been dealing with the same situation the past few weeks. The sad part is your intestines probably look just like your mouth, so it's worth taking it seriously.

Here is what I was doing/did and am doing now:

Quit xifaxan. Went on ketaconazole (an antifungal rx) for 10 days. Cut my carbs and sugars to almost zilch.
Believe it or not, at the end of the drug, the problem was still there.

Started Olive leaf extract. Overnight my mough was better. Kept the carbs and sugars low. (the past 5 days)

During this time (14 days) I also borrowed a yogurt maker and started making my own 24 hour yogurt. It was super fun and give me about 100x the probiotics I could buy in one cup.

I am much better. I am styin gon the olive leaf extract because i was totally blown away by how well it worked. I'm sitting on an rx for diflucan in case I need it, but my sense is the olive leaf extract (I used a liquid) is as or more efficient.

I'm sure also the SCD'er will weigh in here, if you can tolerate the diet, that would be very good too. Alas, I cannot, but I can control my sugars and carbs.

Here is a hug!! We're in the same boat. :) I'm a lot better though so just hang in there.

Thank you janicea, learned a lot by reading your post. Have read that the best olive leaf extract is East Park. LDN will work even better when there is no fungus left. Have used LDN for two years now and I am still feeling terrific!

 

I normally have a coating but it's not thrush. I just regularly use one of those tongue scrapers. I've noticed it goes away when I'm on antibiotics though.

I've thankfully never hadit but it can be quite common from using flagyl and such...anyways the best thing to do of course if get it treated and taking a good probiotic daily and indefinitely can keep it at bay.

:)

Like others have said, cutting down on sugar is good because thrush - that coating on your tongue - is caused by yeast, which loves sugar.

The reason people get thrush when on antibiotics like Flagyl is because the antibiotics hit not only the bad bacteria, but also the good bacteria. Flagyl causes the ratio of bacteria to yeast to go down which can cause an imbalance, since both yeast and bacteria must coexist in balance in your intestines.

So...this means that you might benefit from homemade yogurt, which is far more powerful than store bought. Also, to replenish good bacteria you can take any number of probiotics. For instance, Solgar's advanced 40+ acidophilus.

Cutting down on sugar and probiotics will help Nystatin do its work. But don't take Nystatin for more than a couple of weeks, because, as I recall, Nystatin interferes with the absorption of many nutrients. Diflucan is a very strong, very effective antifungal med but Nystatin is far safer.