Could you halp me talk about thrush?? lol?
I’m doing an assignment for school and of all things my teacher decieded to get us to do it on thrush… yay (please note sarcasm, lol) anyway, I have a few questions that i can’t reall find straight answers for. They are quite simple questions but are just staying out of my reach. Could anyone help???
Well, here are the question:
1. Describe the treatment and prevention of thrush.
2. If the pathogen that causes candidiasis is in the bodies microflora all the time, explain why the disease is not always present, and describe the conditions under which the disease could develop.
3.Construct a flow diagram that includes illistrations
The last one especially is confusing. Please Help me!!!
By the way i’m in year 12.
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1. Here is a link for the treatment of oral thrush in babies:
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/460/main.html
and one that addresses it’s treatment and prevention in infants and adults:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000626.htm
A short list of preventative steps to take:
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/oral_thrush/prevent.htm
2. Candida Albicans is present in everyone’s body. The amount can grow out of control in people with compromised immune systems; those with HIV, on chemotherapy, or on steroidal therapies, (like steroid inhalers for asthma) and diabetics whose sugar balances may be off leading to excess growth. Since infants do not have fully developed immune systems, it can grow out of control with them as well. Incidentally, it’s the same pathogen that causes yeast infections in women. There’s lots of technical medical information on this. I don’t fully understand it. lol.
3. For the flow chart, look at this example of a simple flow chart. In the top box, I’d have the name of the pathogen, Candida Albicans. From the main box, it would go to two. One for infected, one for healthy. Next I’d break off the infected into the two groups, infants and adults. Each of those boxes would break off into two more (for a total of four) for the treatment and prevention in each population. I can’t really draw this in my answer, or I’d try.
Best of luck. Nothing funny about it. Many babies have it at some point.
The thrush I’m most familiar with is when it gets overgrown in the milk ducts of nursing moms. I’m a breastfeeding educator, so I see this question a LOT.
Probably not what the teacher was thinking, but it depends on who you ask. It usually happens when a new mom either goes for a long time with wet nursing pads (bad idea), or she’s treated for something with antibiotics. The antibiotics will allow the yeast to grow totally out of control. Sometimes the moms can take probiotics (like in natural yogurt) to counteract that. Diflucan is a drug that can get rid of it, though in higher doses and for a longer time than you would take for a yeast infection. The baby has to be treated, too, or they just swap the thrush back and forth a zillion times. It usually hurts the living heck out of mom, and generally doesn’t bother the baby.
Some people also blame an overgrowth of yeast on a whole host of health problems; a Google search would probably bring you a lot about that.
I battle thrush a lot, due to high dosage inhaled steroids for my horrible to control asthma…
Prevention is difficult at these high steroid dosages. Brushing teeth after using the inhalers helps, but doesn’t eliminate the problem. Typically, treatment is with a thick, yellow, disgusting, bitter tasting antifungal (Nystatin) mouthwash usually called "Swish and swallow", used several times a day. It is quite nasty, I assure you!
Have fun!