Symptoms of lactation mastitis?

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The incidence rate of mastitis has improved in recent years. Young mothers usually do not maintain breast maintenance at normal times. They do not understand the symptoms of mastitis. They do not realize that they are precursors of disease in the early stage of disease, thus delayed the best time to treat, and increased mastitis. What are the symptoms of mastitis during lactation? Now let's take a look.

Symptoms of lactation mastitis?

Lactation women have more milk, often give the baby after feeding there is more milk, stored in the breast, often this will cause swelling and pain, local skin temperature is higher, pressing pain. Slowly, there will be a hard knot with unclear boundaries. At the beginning of these symptoms, mothers may not pay much attention to them, so they cause mastitis.

Many mothers breast milk for their baby, let the baby eat while sleeping, causing nipple damage. Early symptoms of mastitis will appear nipple rupture symptoms. It leads to the invasion of bacteria. Cause local skin redness, heat, swelling and pain. More serious cases of induration is more obvious, there may be high fever, chills, headache and fatigue symptoms.

If the infection in the breast continues to develop, the infection foci of different sizes will fuse with each other to form an abscess. If the symptoms of mastitis patients are obvious, and the effect of drug treatment is not obvious, it is necessary to pay attention to puncture and aspiration. If there is pus, the diagnosis has formed abscess. Effective treatment should be taken as soon as possible.

matters needing attention

1. The early treatment of mastitis should focus on milking, seize the early favorable opportunity to control the development of the disease. The choice of traditional Chinese medicine treatment is generally Shugan Qingre, Tongru detumescence. The method of massage is to massage the breast with both hands from the breast base and push it slowly towards the breast. The degree of force of massage is based on the patient's tolerance. At the same time, gently pull the breast several times to expand the breast collaterals. This method can promote smooth discharge of milk. Lactation mastitis treatment for the course of more than 6-10 days of chronic mastitis, can be added with intravenous penicillin drugs systemic anti-inflammatory treatment, mostly cured in 1-2 weeks. 2. The focus of medium-term treatment of mass is to dissipate the mass and avoid suppurative infection. Many patients lose the favorable opportunity of early cure and form inflammatory mass, which is mostly related to the early use of high-dose antibiotics. The main traditional Chinese medicine is soothing the liver and clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation and removing swelling. Hot compress can be used as adjuvant treatment, and local hot compress can play an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. If local swelling is obvious, 25% magnesium sulfate wet hot compress can be used. At the same time, the patient massages along the direction of breast root to breast for 8 to 10 minutes every 3 to 4 hours, and squeezes the milk as much as possible or sucks it out with a sucking device. Early mastitis, mild symptoms can not stop breastfeeding.