Symptoms and causes of mastitis

Update Date: 2024-02-08 Source: Network

summary

Mastitis is a common disease in women's childbearing age. It often occurs in menopause. Suffering from breast disease makes many women feel very painful. This disease is not sudden or accidental, but a long-term accumulation of disease. For women who have just given birth, bacteria invade the breast through milk for various reasons, leading to the occurrence of mastitis, If not treated in time, it will lead to abnormal breast pain, infection, and even breast cancer, so we must understand the symptoms and causes of mastitis, and actively treat it.

Symptoms and causes of mastitis

The causes of mastitis include trauma and rupture of the breast, which are more common in the newborn. During lactation, the baby bites the nipple, causing infection and inflammation of the breast, causing mastitis. May also be because too much milk, not timely breast-feeding, breast pain, accumulated for a long time, will cause mastitis.

The symptoms of mastitis, at the beginning, will have the performance of breast swelling and pain, usually for one side of the breast pain, and then can develop into bilateral breast pain, with peripheral pain hard, feel hard lump, surrounding skin red swelling and bruise, nipple damage or breast damage, rupture.

matters needing attention

Patients with mastitis will appear swelling and pain of the breast, nipple will appear chapped and pain, there will be lumps in the breast, suppurative mastitis in the late stage will appear lumps soft, breast tissue suppurative, the degree of pain in patients with increased symptoms. Usually for their own breast to pay more attention, should often wash the breast with warm water, especially the nipple, patients should pay attention to choose the right underwear, don't let the breast have the feeling of oppression.