How to avoid acute mastitis?

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About 80% of women of childbearing age have breast tube blockage, which can cause breast pain during lactation, reduce milk secretion, and even cause mastitis. Dredging mammary gland during lactation can effectively avoid future milk deposition, nipple damage and prevent mastitis. So let's understand how to avoid acute mastitis??

How to avoid acute mastitis?

First: timely and correct treatment of breast distension: postpartum available orange core 30g, decoction, generally 2-3 doses can prevent milk stagnation. Primary breast distension can be relieved by frequent sucking. For secondary breast distension, wet and hot compress before breast feeding, massage the breast, and then squeeze out some milk to reduce breast distension, so that the baby can suck better, cold compress after breast feeding can reduce congestion and pain, and avoid tension and anxiety.

Second: the discharge of silted milk, dredge the mammary duct: there are many ways to discharge milk, such as manual milking, sucking pump (or sucking device) milking, needle massage, etc., but no matter which method is adopted, we should try our best to discharge the silted milk and dredge the mammary duct. The commonly used method is manual milking, so at the same time of helping lactation, we should teach lactating mothers to master the correct milking method, so as to relieve breast swelling in time and reduce the occurrence of mastitis. If necessary, the breast can be emptied by spouse sucking.

Third: insist on breast-feeding, do not stop breast-feeding: breast-feeding is the best natural nutrition for infants, which is convenient, economical, nutritious and safe. It can also enhance the relationship between mother and child, and the antibody can improve the disease resistance of infants. Therefore, even if the occurrence of acute mastitis, do not easily back to milk, stop breastfeeding. If the acute mastitis can be treated as soon as possible, the blocked mammary duct will be unobstructed, and the accumulated milk will be discharged, the condition will be improved quickly. Therefore, before the formation of abscess, the baby should be allowed to suck more, suck frequently to help discharge milk, and dredge the mammary duct.

matters needing attention

In late pregnancy, nipples were often washed with warm water or 75% alcohol; Postpartum every time before and after lactation to clean the nipple, and keep local clean and dry.