How to check mastitis

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Breast is the unique physiological characteristics of women, a healthy breast can not only show the personal charm of women, but also represent the health of the body, but the breast is also easy to get sick, the most common is mastitis. So how to determine if you have mastitis? Generally speaking, mastitis is a common disease in women's puerperium, which is caused by the acute suppurative infection of the breast, and this phenomenon can also lead to postpartum fever, especially in primipara. Therefore, lactation is a high incidence period of female mastitis, especially when just lactating. So once diagnosed as mastitis, what are the symptoms?

How to check mastitis

First: nipple tingling, which is generally a common symptom of mastitis, especially in the sick maternal lactation, usually will feel the phenomenon of nipple tingling; and after the disease, the breast will also swell, accompanied by red, burning and other symptoms. At the same time, the patient's nipple has the symptoms of chapped, but also with the occurrence of milk overflow phenomenon, need to pay attention to.

Second: systemic symptoms: if the nipple has tingling sensation without timely treatment, and slowly will develop to breast local pain, will give patients tenderness, skin color will appear red or reddish, systemic symptoms are not obvious; sometimes may also have chills, fever, chest tightness, headache and other phenomena, the whole person will become irritable, big temper, even loss of appetite .

Third: burst out of pus: when the disease gets further development, such as acute abscess mature will burst out of pus, there may be the use of surgical incision to discharge pus; but if the pus discharge is not clean or unobstructed, the swelling does not disappear, it is likely to appear bag pus, or pus wave and other hazards, if long-term treatment, the formation of galactorrhea.

matters needing attention

In addition to the above symptoms, mastitis can also bring systemic symptoms to patients, such as sudden chills, fever, chills, fatigue, elevated body temperature, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms, which directly make women unable to live a normal life. Therefore, if the above symptoms appear in patients with timely treatment, we should know that in order to avoid the trouble of mastitis, then we must take preventive measures, at the same time, the treatment of mastitis needs to start from the etiology.