Symptoms of a baby's nipple infection

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There are white spots on the baby's nipple. I always worry about whether the baby is ill. There is a popular saying that if the baby's nipple has white spots, it will be squeezed out. If the baby's nipple is not squeezed out, the breast will grow up later. If the baby's nipple is not squeezed out, it will be easy for her to suffer from nipple depression or breast disease later. In fact, there is no scientific basis for this. It is totally caused by the myth! Baby's nipple infection symptoms? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of a baby's nipple infection

The main performance is a part of the breast, usually outside or inside the upper quadrant sudden swelling and pain, unclear boundary, more obvious tenderness. At this stage, the internal inflammation of the breast is cellulitis stage, has not yet formed abscess. The color of breast skin is normal or slightly red, or slightly hot.

Sudden high fever, chills, pain, swelling, local bright red, soon suppurative ulceration, accompanied by chest tightness, headache, loss of appetite, etc. If you have chapped nipple, you will feel the pain of nipple like needle pricking when breastfeeding. One or two small pus spots or small cracks can be seen on the surface of nipple.

When bacteria invade and the nipple collapses, it is difficult for the baby to suck milk, which is easy to cause damage around the nipple, causing bacteria to invade along the lymphatic vessels and cause infection; When babies sleep with nipples, the inflammatory bacteria in the baby's mouth will directly invade and spread to the mammary duct, and then spread to the breast stroma, causing suppurative infection. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common pathogenic bacteria, and a few of them are hemolytic streptococcus.

matters needing attention

Adequate nutrition is also very important for breast maintenance. Breast health needs to appropriately increase the intake of some animal protein and fat. Some female friends in order to lose weight often choose to eat less meat, or even vegetarian, such a diet is not conducive to breast health. If you want to get plump breasts, it is also very important to eat a diet with high protein and animal fat.