So now I have thrush...

I've got it, too. I've taken two courses of clotrimazole lozenges, but they don't seem to be working. I am going back to the doctor later this week, so I am hoping to get something stronger.

I read online (mayo clinic site?) that people with healthy immune systems should be able to treat this with home remedies, but I'm not sure that includes us folks on pred or Imuran. It suggested eating yogurt, rinsing with salt water, sterilizing your toothbrush. I think I also read rinsing with watered down vinegar, but this could be painful.

I've been trying to up my probiotics to get my flora back in balance while I am waiting to see my doc. It hasn't eliminated it, but my tongue seems a little less white than previously.

Good luck.

I'd probably pop some Tylenol to see if it gives you some relief tonight. Yogurt, like pb4 suggested, might help b/c of the probiotics, but also the dairy might coat your mouth and throat and offer some relief. I'd call your doc first thing in the am and check on the prescription, too.

I got thrush immediately after started prednisone a year and a half ago, and I am just now getting over it finally. I was also on an immunosuppressant for a little over a year, and althougth I was told that it would not cause thrush, I believe stopping it helped.

I tried to go on a candida diet while simultanously starting the SCD diet, so I was only eating 4 different foods for about a month...I ended up needing to eat different foods, so that didn't last. However, after building up my repertoir of foods, now I do not eat fruit, especially bananas etc. that are high in sugar. That has helped a lot. Look up the candida diet online and see what you find. Things they generally say to avoid are:

bread (all yeasts actually)
peanuts, cheese (all molds and mold-containing foods)
dairy
fruits
high carb carbs, like carrots

Because I was on prednisone for so long (now tapering off at 1.5 mg), the thrush stayed around, and I pretty much had a sour taste in my mouth all the time.

Now that I am healing, I am able to use a garlic-containing flu remedy - its an herbal mix tincture - and when I used that for the flu, I found that my thrush went away too. You might try that. Or gargling with garlic water. The name of the two flu remedies I used are:

"Cold and Sinus Blaster" spray - it's produced by Sunflower, a local grocery store chain but they might ship things.
"Kick-Ass Sinus" by WishGarden Herbs

Ginger can also soothe the throat. When I would get sick, before I got UC, I would gargle with garlic/ginger tea that I made from cutting up garlic and ginger from the store (organic) and pouring boiling water over them, then waiting for it to cool to a warm tolerable temp before drinking. Sometimes this procudes mucus, just to warn you.

Hope this helps. Hope you find relief soon. Please post your progress - if this stuff doesn't work, I've tried a lot of things and might have something else up my sleeve, or maybe someone else will.

Kat

Gross, every single time I go on pred, about a week later, my mouth & throat are covered with thrush. It's a given, for me. There isn't much to do for it in the way of home remedies, simply because it's directly related to the steroid- if you got it from some other, non drug-related reason, you could probably try a home remedy. Just go pick up your swish & swallow mouth wash ASAP! Which is gross too, by the way. But it works.

I've had a recurring candida (the organism that causes thrush, yeast infections, etc.) problem ever since I was started on Imuran years ago. My docs had tried all the usual remedies for yeast infections; they would knock it down but it would come right back. I'd given up, actually.

I recently was in the hospital for five days getting IV Ceftin, Vancomycin and Flagyl for another problem. Generally my candida will go bonkers when I'm on antibiotics, but the very wise Hospitalist surmised that I have enteral candida overgrowth and put me on oral Nystatin in the hospital. The darn yeast was no problem at all.

Now that I'm home and off the Nystatin it's coming back. When I see my PCP for follow-up this week, I'm for sure going to get a gallon of that stuff!

I have had both. Oral thrush and strep. I didn't think I was going to make it I was so sick when I had strep (courtesy of my little one). I got oral thrush from antibiotics and did the mouth wash.

Do adults get hand/foot/mouth? I know that is going around our area right now and can produce sores in the mouths.

Hope you feel better soon!