Follow up about thrush
Mmmmm, doesn't my medicine look yummy?! Last time, I blogged about thrush and asthma medicines. I realized I had thrush and I knew I needed nystatin to treat it (thrush is an infection that you can get from using your maintenance inhaler.) If you use a daily inhaler or discus for your asthma medicine, it's VERY important that you rinse your mouth out after using the medicine. Those medicines are made with a yeast base, so you can get an infection in your mouth from using them. To prevent that, I rinse my mouth out and usually eat something after using my medicine or brush my teeth to make sure my mouth is cleared out. Last week, I had nasty head cold, so I wasn't thinking clearly. I must not have been as careful as I usually am, because I ended up with thrush. If you have thrush, your tongue will be white and you may also have sores on your tongue or throat. It's VERY uncomfortable. And my food tastes weird too. There are different forms of n