Any babies on Nystatin? Green sticky poo & painful bowel movements?

[QTPie]

Sorry to have disappeared for so long... TRYING to re-emerge...

My little boy (5.5 weeks) is completely breastfed (well breast and one expressed bottle a night). All bowel movements easy and all normal (yellow, runny) poo until 4 weeks when he started Nystatin Suspension (4 times a day) for thrush (I am on the cream). Since then green, sticky poos and painful bowel movements.

Have been to GP and Health Visitor - BOTH said it was unlikely to be the Nystatin (HUGE coincidence then! I have had no change in diet...). GP thought it might be a virus... (helpful!), health visitor thinks that son has just started to eat quicker... (not convinced!).

I think that I will get the Health Visitor to weigh up options and prescribe something else (just to remove Nystatin from the equation...).

Anyone have similar experiences?

QT

 

[Seraphim]

I have no clue about the Nystatin, but Hazels went like this with too much foremilk. I started doing at least 2 feeds from one boob before giving the other side and normal poos resumed.

We run into the problem again every time she has a growth spurt, and I have to go back to the block feeding

 

[messymum]

my daughter is 4 weeks old and had to go on nystatin but she hasn't had any side effects like that. in fact she didn't seem to have any side effects apart from just a couple of runny nappies but that was it and at the time i was still under mw care and she said that was normal.

 

[Mellage]

Finlay's been on that twice and it didnt have any side effects like that, but every baby is different

 

[Buffy71]

Hi hon. Could be growth spurt related? H has had these symptoms everytime she gets a growth spurt. However you know best and I'm definitely learning to trust my instincts and that's what I'd say to you too. If you think it's the medicine, it probably is. Worth a chat to the hv again anyway, or the doc or a pharmacist might be your best bet as hv's don't always know the medical answers. Nip into your nearest pharmacy. ?

Xx

 

[Mrs Muffin]

Darwin has green diarrhoea and is often explosive (rather windy!). He's not on Nyastin. Dr + hv think it's just a virus but he's had this for 2 weeks now. I'm starting to think it's too much foremilk like Seraphim said.
Do you have a overactive let down? My often spurts out!

 

[dacosta]

it does sound like too much foremilk... try expressing a bit off first and then getting lo to feed. mine was on nystatin which we gave a small amount to coat the tongue and roof of mouth at every feed (not the large amount it says on the instructions) and i didnt have this problem.

 

[suzanne108]

Hey QT ... no advice but I'd been wondering how you were doing! x