Treatment of thrush (Candida albicans infection).

  Thrush, also known as Candida albicans infection, belongs to a kind of fungus, common in breast-fed children and long-term use of antibiotics patients, manifested as white lesions on the tongue or oral mucosa flakes, can be erased, easy to recur, painful, infants and young children usually show crying when eating, increased saliva.  1, first of all, to diagnose clearly, it is recommended to visit the oral mucosa, in general, in addition to clinical manifestations, you can carefully scrape off part of the white material, sent to the laboratory to do routine microscopic examination, if you can see the fungal mycelium under the microscope, the basic diagnosis can be confirmed.  2, after the diagnosis, you can gargle with sodium bicarbonate solution, or coated on the affected area. You can also use a tablet of mycoplasma, crushed and mixed with 10 ml of saline to make a suspension, and apply it to the child’s affected area with a cotton swab three times a day, and it will generally be cured in a few days.  3, because thrush is prone to recurrence, so in order to avoid recurrence of thrush, we must cut off the source of infection. First of all, it is recommended that mothers clean their breasts before breastfeeding, pay attention to personal hygiene, change their underwear regularly, and have their intimate clothing scalded with boiling water and dried in the sun to kill fungi. The child’s clothing should also be disinfected at high temperatures and dried in the sun. Toys that cannot be cleaned can be wiped with sodium bicarbonate solution.