Thrush is the devil!

So as I mentioned in a previous post, Laila came down with a case of thrush during the road trip. It was really a frustrating thing but the bright side is she was never in any pain. We took her to Urgent Care the second we got to Fort Sill. She was given a prescription for Nystatin and we were told she needed to follow up in a week. Well we used Nystatin for a week and the thrush went from just spots on her tongue to her lips, corners of her mouth, sides of her mouth and roof of her mouth!!! I was getting irritated by all this and the straw that broke the camel's back was my two month old becoming hoarse due to all this. So I went to the Internet and searched and stumbled across an article about Gentian Violet. I went around town looking for this stuff and ended up overpaying for it to the tune of $18; but at this point I just had to have it. Now as far as treatment, I diluted it with water and used q-tips to swab the inside of Laila's mouth with the mix. Now, it did in fact turn her mouth purple for several hours; but we saw improvement by the next morning. We had to apply Gentian Violet two more days and in those days she also developed nappy rash! UGH but after applying an antifungal cream we also saw that improve also. This was quite the battle but I am thankful it is over. Also want to add that daily all her bottles were sterilized after every use. Oh and because Gentian Violet stains, I applied Vaseline to the outside of Laila's mouth before applying and we had no real issues with stains.