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Does this describe your symptom?

  
  • 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).

If not, see these other symptoms
  1. Should I Call?
  2. Care at Home

Parent Care for Pediatric Symptoms. Copyright © 2000-2008. Barton D. Schmitt, MD
Reviewed/Modified: Sept 2008 by Intermountain Healthcare, Inc.


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