Thrush

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THRUSH

Main Symptoms

• White, irregularly shaped patches in the mouth.
• Coats the inside cheeks or inner lips.
• Sometimes coats the tongue (if the only symptom is a uniformly white tongue, it's due to a milk diet, not thrush).
• Adherent to the mouth (cannot be washed away or wiped off easily like milk curds).
• Causes mild discomfort or no symptoms.
• The child is bottle-fed or breast-fed.

Cause

• Caused by a yeast (called Candida).

See More Appropriate Topic (instead of this one) If

• It doesn't look like thrush, see MOUTH ULCERS.