What is mastitis

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Carbuncle in fact usually said that the milk sore, mainly occurs in the lactation period, will give the child's feeding influence. Let's see what is mastitis.

What is mastitis

First of all: mastitis is an acute suppurative disease characterized by redness, swelling and pain of the breast, poor discharge of milk, resulting in abscess and carbuncle. Most of the cases occurred in postpartum lactation, especially in primipara. It is commonly known as whelk.

Secondly: according to the different periods of onset, there are several names: those occurred in lactation, called external blowing mastitis; those occurred in pregnancy, called internal blowing mastitis; those occurred in non lactation and non pregnancy, called non lactation mastitis. Acute suppurative mastitis in modern medicine belongs to the category of mastitis.

Finally: its clinical characteristics are: breast lumps, swelling pain, accompanied by systemic fever, thick pus after ulceration. Most of them occurred in lactating women who were not full moon after delivery, especially in those with broken nipples or stagnant milk.

matters needing attention

To prevent nipple rupture, nipple rupture is not only easy to accumulate milk, but also may cause bacterial infection due to wound. Active treatment of nipple rupture, to prevent complications