Thrush during pregnancy

[chelsea78]

Its driving me mad, im 36wks pregnant and cant seem to shift it! Ive been treating it for ages it seems now, my only concern is passing it to my baby on delivery ive been reading up on it and its not a big problem if my child does get it but i would rather she don't. Any1 no of anything else i can do to try and treat is awful fungal infection?
Thanku inadvance

[mrs_overall]

What are you treating it with?

[eggnoglatte]

If you have not tried Canestan I highly recommend it but if you dont want to use something like that in your pregnant state how about natural yogurt - it does work but not as fast
Good luck

[chelsea78]

what my doctor prescribed canesten cream

[mrs_overall]

Without being too graphic, Canesten cram can only be applied externally or part-way internally, so won't solve the problem.
With my last pregnancy I was prescribed some pessaries (I forget their name) which did the trick.

Go and see your GP again.

Good luck.

[chelsea78]

Sorry you got there before me eggnoglatte, yeh thats the stuff im using but i will give the yogurt a go thank you

[chelsea78]

yeah the doctor prescribed me the canesten duo which is cream and pessarie but i didn't fell comfortable using the pessarie even though the doctor prescribed it so it should have been safe but he ain't the brightest of sparks ive had to correct him before when going to give me medication

[babalicious]

i had thrush towards the end of my pregnancy, and i got canestan duo of my doctor. i used the pessarie and everything was fine it cleared up in a day or two! the pessarie is fine to use after all you can have sex up until the baby is born so the pessarie is ok!