Wash the baby s hands gently before each feeding and dry with a soft paper towel. Little fingers are a warm, moist growth medium for yeast. Anything that goes into baby s mouth should be sterilized daily. Replace all rubber nipples after a week of treatment. Any toys that go into the mouth can be wiped with vinegar and water or a weak bleach solution.
Damp towels can harbor yeast.
Use paper towels to affected areas of baby and mom and discard. Be sure to use paper towels in the bathroom and kitchen for the whole family and cleaning during an outbreak of thrush. Use all towels, bras and re-usable bra pads only once and wash in very hot water with bleach. Vinegar in the final rinse helps kill yeast as well. Too much bleach can cause holes in your clothes.