PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF THRUSH (OIDIAL STOMATITIS)

摘要: Thrush, or oidial stomatitis, has been comparatively neglected in recent medical literature, 1 and its importance, both as a clinical an epidemiologic problem, too generally minimized. Clinically, it is commonly regarded innocuous infection, readily curable self-limited duration, whereas not uncommonly severe occasionally fatal; infrequently fails to yield even vigorous treatment, without treatment may run course of many weeks. As problem institutional hygiene the prevention control epidemics, particularly wards for new-born infants, importance second only that impetigo. It considered stomatitis due contamination from imperfectly sterilized nursing bottles nipples, introduction unsterile cleansing solutions into mouth mother's breasts hands attendants. believed premature, weak, athreptic infants