What is mastitis symptom

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Mastitis in general, if the symptoms are not very serious, you can continue to feed the baby milk. If the symptoms are serious, stop breastfeeding. Understand the symptoms of mastitis, in order to better grasp the way of treatment, then what are the symptoms of mastitis? Here is to introduce the symptoms of acute mastitis.

What is mastitis symptom

The first is: the mastitis patients will have swelling and pain at the beginning of the breast. When the baby is fed the lotion, the pain will be more obvious. The milk will not be removed smoothly. There will be swelling or absence or sometimes the symptoms of skin redness, chest tightness and irritability. To control the disease, we should deal with the initial symptoms in time.

Second: continue to develop will develop into suppurative, breast lumps gradually become larger, local hardening, pain is pulsatile, accompanied by high fever, weakness and other systemic manifestations. The formation of abscess, with inflammation on the side of axillary lymph node enlargement, swelling area skin, central part of the soft, with hands will wave motion.

Third: the abscess of mastitis will burst in the later stage. The lighter part can pierce the skin and sometimes the emulsion spills from the wound. Pus can also flow into other tissues of the breast, severe cases may form sepsis. At this time, incision and drainage operation should be performed to discharge the pus.

matters needing attention

Mastitis in the early stage will have certain symptoms, generally patients will have tingling. Accompanied by milk stasis or caking, sometimes one or two milk tube blocked. Then the breast local swelling pain, caking or with or without, accompanied by tenderness, skin color is not red or slightly red, skin is not hot or slightly hot. Systemic symptoms are not obvious, or accompanied by chills, fever, chest tightness, headache, irritability, easy temper, loss of appetite. The breast mass did not disappear or gradually increased, local pain aggravated, or pulsatile pain, very persistent strong pain, accompanied by obvious tenderness, red skin, burning skin, and strong heat, thirst, nausea and anorexia, swelling and tenderness of ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes.