Healing nipples after thrush?
Hi all,
Just wondering if any of you ever dealt with nipple thrush? I saw a lactation consultant over 2 weeks ago now who helped me & let me know that my latch was fine but that I may have thrush. Turns out I do/did. I likely had it for several weeks untreated after antibiotics for mastitis almost 2 months ago. It's severe so I'm on fluconazole (oral antifungal) but at this point the thrush should be gone (my son's thrush is cleared too) but the skin on my nipples is wrecked and I have fissures that aren't healing from pumping. I haven't latched my son for over two weeks now because I wanted to wait until the fissures heal to not restart the cycle hopefully but pumping with watching two kids solo (2 under 2, they're 14 months apart) is getting too hard to manage. Have any of you ever dealt with nipple thrush or something similar? If yes, how did you get the skin to heal? Did you still breastfeed?