What are the positions in the mouth where oral thrush affects?My mother is 46,has hyper thyroid and has recently undergone a topical corticosteroid treatment.Since then she has had white patches on her tongue,white spots on the inside cheeks and a whitish deep pocket like area where the lower cheek meets the gum line around the lower jaw.When felt by the tongue an uneasiness is felt.The physician diagnosed them to be thrush.Are they actually thrush?Can thrush affect all these areas?Please advice.
thelittleinuit
Yes thrush is common on the tongue (a furry white appearance) and back of the throat. They are the most common places but it can also be in the vestibule (between your lips and teeth) and inside of cheeks. If you want to look it up on medical sites the proper name is oral candiasis.
It's easily treated with oral antibiotics but it may be recurrent due to the corticosteroids (the fungi thrive off them). Chat to her doctor about managing it.
Edit: i mean oral antifungals not antibiotics
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