In most cases, the problem of yeast mouth Thrush in the mouth: a nasty fungus   encountered in pediatric practice. Parents need to seek qualified professional help to pass the appropriate exam. The reasons why the thrush affects the oral cavity, are quite diverse, and therefore to the question of the treatment should be approached comprehensively. The most negative effects may result from self, so this approach should be discarded.

Basic principles of therapy

The amount of therapeutic measures for thrush in the mouth should be determined taking into account the underlying cause of the disease. If the mother is breastfeeding and has clinical manifestations of the disease, the treatment should be administered at the same time mother and child. Fungal infection quite easily spreads from child to mother, and in the opposite direction. There is a high risk of acute infection through a short period of time, if the mother does not receive treatment.

The child is prescribed oral treatment with antifungal agents. These include:

• Candida drug
• Nystatin drops

The most convenient way to treat a small child's mouth - is to use a special cotton swabs. They may be necessary to moisten the sodium and accurately perform processing several times a day. With regard to the appointment of tablet forms of antifungal drugs (eg drug fluconazole), they are allowed to take only into account the child's age and under direct medical supervision. Currently available child-friendly form of soluble tablets, so even a small child would not be difficult to make the necessary course of therapy. Typically, this group may be receiving drugs from the age of six months. Each case is individual, so the appointment of any drug should be entrusted to a specialist.

With the purpose of treatment can be used soda. The solution is prepared at the rate of one teaspoon per cup of boiling water. Such a solution should not only handle the baby's mouth, but also handle pacifiers.

Practical recommendations for the mother

Very often the child directly from the infected mother. For the treatment of thrush should be treated responsibly, so the mother should be treated in the presence of signs of disease. If the woman has not passed the treatment of thrush Treating Thrush: how to get rid of bad fungus   during pregnancy, it should be done in the postpartum period. There are drugs that are not absorbed and do not have a systemic impact on the body, allowing you to assign them to nursing mothers. They act only on the local level and such drugs include the following:

• vaginal suppositories containing sertaconazole. They are very easy to use, since they need to be administered only once a time. When it comes to severe thrush, it is enough of one candle. In the treatment of chronic yeast Chronic yeast infection - how to win illness   should re-enter another candle in a week;
• vaginal suppositories based on chlorhexidine. They prescribed twice a day for ten days;

Thrush in the mother can occur with damage to the skin of the breast. In this situation, the mother with the child should undergo systemic and local antifungal therapy to prevent the progression of infection in the child. Very often in the background of a fungal infection Fungal infection: to prevent and defeat   attaching occurs secondary or bacterial infection that clinically severe disease. To avoid complications, must be assigned to antibiotic therapy in conjunction with antifungal therapy.

Marina Solovyov

Prednisolone, like all other glucocorticoids, has on the human action on the level of activity similar to surgery. Therefore, doctors try to prescribe this drug in extreme cases when no other treatment helps.

The use of prednisone in chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases

Prednisolone is used for hard occurring chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases when they are accompanied by considerable swelling and severe pain. Most often, such a purpose it is used in diseases of the joints - arthritis and polyarthritis. It perfectly removes swelling and pain.

Since when sharply reduced immunity simultaneously administered antibacterial or antifungal agents (depending on the cause of inflammatory bowel disease). Prednisone is usually prescribed short courses and in small doses. If you need it for a long assignment, after a course of treatment with prednisolone lifted gradually.

In severe cases of arthritis prednizoloen administered in the form of intraarticular injection - it reduces inflammation, pain, and also reduces the risk of proliferation of connective tissues and disorders later joint function.

The use of prednisone in allergic diseases

In acute allergic processes, such as allergies to medications in the form of anaphylactic shock and angioedema, which threaten the destruction of the patient, prednisone is administered intravenously in high doses. Usually, it causes no side effects and quickly stops the development of an allergic process.

In chronic allergic diseases prednisolone Prednisolone - against inflammation, allergy and pain, but with complications   try to assign as little as possible and as short courses. It is prescribed for bronchial asthma, chronic year-round and seasonal rhinitis (runny nose).

Dosage forms for topical prednisolone are commonly used in the treatment of skin allergies. Ointment prednisolone administered in atopic dermatitis, neurodermatitis, eczema, allergic contact dermatitis, and so on. Prednisolone perfectly removes swelling and itching of the skin. Applications (including external) prednisone can only be done under medical supervision. For it is addictive, which requires a constant increase in the dose, and it is fraught with numerous side effects.

Used prednisone and autoimmune diseases that are caused by allergies to their own tissue. It diseases such as glomerulonephritis, rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis - a variety of forms and complications , Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis - a lot of patience is required   and so on.

The use of prednisone with systemic connective tissue diseases

Such diseases include systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma Scleroderma - affects all the organs   and so on. A feature of these diseases is systemic proliferation of connective tissue, which leads to disruption of the function of various organs and systems. In rheumatoid arthritis proliferation of connective tissue in the heart leads to the formation of heart defects. When the disease is important not only to suppress proliferation of connective tissue, but also anti-inflammatory effect of prednisolone, so it is used in rheumatic myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).

Prednisolone suppresses the growth of connective tissue, since it violates the synthesis of proteins - collagen. When systemic connective tissue diseases prednisone appointed short courses as part of an integrated treatment of the disease.

The use of prednisolone as replacement therapy

When adrenal insufficiency (the adrenal cortex produces glucocorticoid hormones), including Addison's disease, is produced by an insufficient number of endogenous corticosteroids, leading to dysfunction of organs and systems.

In this case, prednisone administered as replacement therapy. Thus initially assigned a high dose drug, and then move on to receive maintenance dosage for a long time.

The use of prednisone for eye diseases

Prednisolone an external means (ophthalmic suspensions) are often used in the treatment of ophthalmic diseases, such as chronic allergic blepharoconjunctivitis; inflammation of the allergic nature of the cornea (keratitis) with intact mucosa, sclera and the choroid. Apply as prednisone after traumatic lesions of the eyeball after eye operations with long-term stimulation of the eyeball. In all these cases, prednisone is appointed as a part of complex treatment.

Prednisolone quickly removes phenomena such as inflammation, swelling, pain and itching, so is used for many diseases.

Galina Romanenko