My son who is 7 weeks old has had difficulties feeding almost from birth. Won’t feed more than 5-10 mins max and starts crying like he’s in pain. We have persisted with breast feeding and seen the GP/health visitor/feeding support team/midwife etc... we have constantly complained about our son crying for hours on end each day (worse evenings/night). No real help or solution offered and just told things will get better!
Last night, we noticed by chance that his tongue was white with what appeared like black spots/patches on top of the white. Went to out of hours doctor and told it was thrush! No swab was taken.
Prescribed nystatin 1ml for baby 4x/day (after feed) and daktarin gel for Mum to use on nipple (after feed).
Just wondering if anybody has come across anything similar with ‘black patches/spots’ on white tongue and how it was treated and how we know if infection had spread in body etc or not.
Out of hours doctor said we don’t need to see our own GP until 1 weeks time when we go for our 8 week routine GP check up.
Just worried as to whether it is thrush or not and if so, why the black on tongue and not just white as google images seem to show?