Since children’s immune systems are not fully developed, they do get the whole range of childhood sicknesses sometimes and seem to bring home from school whatever is going around at the time if their immune system is weakened. This usually means a trip to the doctor for some good ole’ antibiotics, which is the number one cause of yeast infection in children. I am a firm believer in letting the immune system deal with illness before I have to take such drastic action.
For example, my 8 year old recently was ill, probably the flu, and what I did was simply let it take its course while I gave her natural supplements. I do not give my kids anything to knock down a fever. A fever is the immune system in action trying to defeat the disease naturally. If you give them aspirin or Tylenol, it will knock down the fever and let the disease take control, then they will be sick for a week or so. Anyway, she was well in two days on her own.
Give them Pedialyte to drink. Herbs and supplements can be given based on symptoms. Try to get them to eat, and let them rest. If it does drag on then a trip to the doctor may be needed, of course, but antibiotics are a last resort. I have to add, my 13 year old has never been sick for more than 3 days. And out of the 4 of us in my family she is the only one that doesn’t have a yeast infection in children based on the spit test. The rest of us have a yeast infection at one stage or another. Of course, I cured myself with the treatments listed on this website. I am also constantly treating my 18 year old daughter, since she never seems to listen until she is sick.
NOTE: Aspirin and other salicylate containing medicines have been linked to Reyes Syndrome. Tylenol and other acetaminophen medications damage the liver and death from overdose is common.
If you do give your child antibiotics, have the doctor prescribe Nystatin to be taken with the antibiotic. Nystatin is a prescription anti-fungal derived from a soil-based bacteria and yeast, believe it or not, and is completely safe since it does not enter the blood stream. Nystatin will keep the yeast fungi from over running the intestines, since you are killing the good bacteria as well as the bad with the antibiotic. After they finish taking it, please give them Total Immune Booster or CP-1 for treating yeast infection in children and to restore the good bacteria that the antibiotic killed so they do not get a yeast infection in children.
