Symptoms of lactation mastitis

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The incidence rate of mastitis has improved in recent years. Young mothers usually do not maintain breast maintenance at normal times. They do not understand the symptoms of mastitis. They do not realize that they are precursors of disease in the early stage of disease, thus delayed the best time to treat, and increased mastitis. What are the symptoms of mastitis during lactation? Now let's take a look.

Symptoms of lactation mastitis

First of all: lactation women milk more, often give the baby after feeding, there are more milk, deposit in the breast, often this will cause swelling pain, local skin temperature is higher, press pain. Slowly, there will be a hard knot with unclear boundaries. At the beginning of these symptoms, mothers may not pay much attention to them, so they cause mastitis.

Second: many mothers breast milk for the baby, let the baby eat while sleeping, causing nipple damage. Early symptoms of mastitis will appear nipple rupture symptoms. It leads to the invasion of bacteria. Cause local skin redness, heat, swelling and pain. More serious cases of induration is more obvious, there may be high fever, chills, headache and fatigue symptoms.

Finally: if the infection in the breast continues to develop, the infection foci of different sizes will fuse with each other to form an abscess. If the symptoms of mastitis patients are obvious, and the effect of drug treatment is not obvious, it is necessary to pay attention to puncture and aspiration. If there is pus, the diagnosis has formed abscess. Effective treatment should be taken as soon as possible.

matters needing attention

During lactation, we should form the habit of regular lactation. After each lactation, the remaining milk must be completely sucked or squeezed out, not left in the breast. If the milk is too thick, the new mother must drink more water. At the same time, to do a good job in breast and baby oral hygiene. Before each lactation, wipe the nipple with warm water. If the nipple is chapped, it should be treated in time to avoid breast infection caused by retrograde bacteria in the nipple. It is also necessary to wipe the baby's mouth with fingers every day, that is, wrap the cotton with fingers and gently wipe it with light saline.