The good news is that it will usually go away on its own within a few weeks, but in the meantime you can speed healing by:
- boiling any pacifiers and bottle nipples for 20 minutes after each use to sterilize them
- dab a little acidophilus on the spots in his/her mouth, or
- dissolve 1/8 teaspoon of lactobacillus bifidus in his/her bottle
If you are breastfeeding:
- take probiotics
- supplement with vitamin c
- avoid sugar (very important since yeast lives on sugar)