Oral thrush among Infants admitted at Tikrit Teaching Hospital

A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted at Tikrit Teaching Hospital in Salahaddin Governorate during a period 15^th January-1^st May 2014. Total cases were (462) infants (23.6%) had oral thrush, (84%) were from rural areas, no significant difference in occurrence between male and female (23.3% and 23.8%) respectively. Highest affected age was those of infants below 6 months, those were bottle fed and those were using pacifier had highest risk factor association (63.3%, 46.7% respectively). Breast feeding infants were the least to be associated with oral thrush. Neonates admitted to septic ward were affected with as double as those admitted to aseptic wards (25.77%, 12.96% respectively) with insignificant difference (P value: 0.064) while was statistically highly significant between breast and bottle fed (13.25%, 27.38%; P value: 0.009). Meanwhile, the difference between mixed fed and exclusive bottle fed babies was statistically insignificant (22.8%, 27.38%; P value: 0.341). In relation to use of pacifier, was statistically highly significant (49.04%; P value: 0.00001).