What does lactation mean?

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Postpartum lactation fever. Postpartum fear is sick, sick baby's rations can not be guaranteed. Today we talk about a phenomenon very similar to mastitis, lactation fever. So what is lactation fever? What does lactation fever mean? Let's share my experience with you.

What does lactation mean?

Postpartum lactation heat lactation heat: milk postpartum 3-4 days increase, due to extreme breast filling, swelling, body temperature up to 37.8-39 ℃. If the labor process is long and overworked, the body temperature can rise slightly in the first 24 hours after delivery, no more than 38 ℃. Lactation fever phenomenon of maternal, body temperature generally continued 4-16 hours after falling to normal temperature, not morbid.

Postpartum lactation fever lactation fever how to do, lactation fever is not pathological, do not need special treatment. But we must let the baby more sucking, to avoid distension of milk at the same time, can also prevent milk deposition lead to mastitis. Mothers at this time must avoid greasy, all kinds of milk soup and other tonic food. The diet is light and soft. It's not too late to make up when it's normal for about ten days.

Postpartum lactation heat postpartum mastitis is how to return a responsibility postpartum mastitis, also known as lactation mastitis. The disease is not rare, most of them are acute. Women who give birth for the first time are prone to suffer from this disease, and it often occurs about one month after giving birth. Because the baby begins to grow teeth after 6 months, it is easy for the baby to hurt the nipple by mistake when breastfeeding. Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus haemolyticus are the main pathogenic bacteria, most of which are caused by damaged nipple wound or blood infection. This kind of inflammation often occurs in postpartum 3 ~ 4 weeks, maternal weaning is also prone to suffer from this disease, we must be vigilant.

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1. General mastitis will be accompanied by breast pain, local swelling or lumps, lactation heat is breast pain, rather than local pain; 2. If you go to the hospital to test blood items, the increase of white blood cells in mastitis is obvious, and the blood items of lactation fever are not abnormal; 3. Mastitis may appear in the whole lactation period, and it is more likely to appear in confinement, while lactation fever usually occurs 3-4 days after delivery; 4. If mastitis later, breast local will have a very obvious abscess, and lactation fever is easy to distinguish.