homeopathic cure for thrush?

[jazzielady]

I'm pretty sure I have thrush from the inhaled steroids I take for my asthma. Anyone know of anything I can do for it besides go to the doctor and get more medicine?

 

[Mandychelle79]

I used grapefruit seed extract on my dd's mouth and my chest when we had thrush. Mix so many drops per oz of water.

 

[KikiFan]

Gentian Violet, you'll have to ask the pharmacist for it - but it's not a prescription med. My daughter got thrush constantly and it worked great.

 

[Green Tea]

In the future always rinse your mouth really well after using the inhaler.

 

[golfgal]

Just because it is "homeopathic" doesn't make it safe to use with other meds. Check with your pharmacist before using anything if you are one medications. You do realize that most medications are already plant/animal based, right?

 

[jazzielady]

Just because it is "homeopathic" doesn't make it safe to use with other meds. Check with your pharmacist before using anything if you are one medications. You do realize that most medications are already plant/animal based, right?

Yeah, I know, I'm just trying to avoid going to the doctor. :/

 

[drag n' fly]

Gentian Violet, you'll have to ask the pharmacist for it - but it's not a prescription med. My daughter got thrush constantly and it worked great.

This is what I used on my babies also if they got thrush...works great!

 

[KristaTX]

Since you are mostly trying to avoid a doctor's visit and aren't opposed to medicinal treatment, just call the doctor who prescribed the inhaler and tell them you have thrush and give them your pharmacy phone #. Since this is a common issue, hopefully he/she will just call in a prescription for you. I work in an allergy/asthma office and we occasionally have this come up.

I teach our patients to at least rinse, but ideally to brush their teeth and tongue after using Advair, Symbicort, or any other inhaled steroid.

 

[bumbershoot]

For something complicated like thrush, along iwth something more complicated asthma, I would go see a homeopath. You might end up with the constitutional remedy that will strengthen your body enough that the reason for the asthma might be gone...ya never know until you go!


For the immediate thrush problem, I'd paint your mouth with gentian violet OR start using grapefruit seed extract. GSE tastes really awful (like the most grapefruity grapefruit you've EVER had), and GV will make you purple. Purple purple purple. Very effective. VERY cheap. LIke, a buck. But not everyone carries it. In '04 I could only find it at Compounding Pharmacies (not bogus ones like Walgreens who SAY they are a compounder but they really aren't). Now I've seen it at some normal grocery stores, usually on a top shelf.


I love homeopathy, and since there's no "findable" substance in it the likelihood of it reacting to anything else makes me giggle, BUT I only self-administer for simple stuff. Asthma is a systemic complication, as is thrush...I wouldn't mess with them (I don't use homeopathy if my own asthma flares up, though I do try to get a cup of coffee or nettle tea right a the beginning of an attack, b/c it clears up the attack better than albuterol and withOUT the nasty side effects albuterol causes in me) on my own. I'd definitely see a homeopath and try to get to the root cause (haven't yet gotten a recommendation to a GREAT homeopath around here, otherwise I would have done just that!).

 

[Green Tea]

Since you are mostly trying to avoid a doctor's visit and aren't opposed to medicinal treatment, just call the doctor who prescribed the inhaler and tell them you have thrush and give them your pharmacy phone #. Since this is a common issue, hopefully he/she will just call in a prescription for you. I work in an allergy/asthma office and we occasionally have this come up.

Good suggestion!

 

[HelenePA]

Gentian Violet, you'll have to ask the pharmacist for it - but it's not a prescription med. My daughter got thrush constantly and it worked great.

it works great! but like someone else said you WILL be purple! VERY purple I ordered mine from drugstore.com since I got it just in case I needed it and I did...

 

[jazzielady]

Since you are mostly trying to avoid a doctor's visit and aren't opposed to medicinal treatment, just call the doctor who prescribed the inhaler and tell them you have thrush and give them your pharmacy phone #. Since this is a common issue, hopefully he/she will just call in a prescription for you. I work in an allergy/asthma office and we occasionally have this come up.

I teach our patients to at least rinse, but ideally to brush their teeth and tongue after using Advair, Symbicort, or any other inhaled steroid.

Thanks, I took your advice and called my doc. Surprisingly, they called in a script for me instead of wanting to see me. Doc prescribed clotrimazole tablets that I have to suck and dissolve 5 times a day for 2 weeks.

 

[KristaTX]

It's a common side effect of the medication that the doctor prescribed, so I didn't figure they would insist on you coming in for something that is pretty obvious.

 

[busyshrew]

I agree it's very common. I've had doctors actually offer to write a scrip for it at the same time they're giving me the scrip for the antibiotics.

 

[Green Tea]

It's a common side effect of the medication that the doctor prescribed, so I didn't figure they would insist on you coming in for something that is pretty obvious.

Is this something that the one time prescription pill that women take for yeast infections would fix? Can't remember the name of it, but it is most every woman's best friend at some point in their lives.

 

[jazzielady]

Well, so far it's working really well. The spots in my throat are gone already.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

My daughter got it ion way to Disney.
A person I was talking to said he was amedic in the army. He said they swished diluted hydrogen peroxide but said he wiould not recomend for kids.