How to treat chronic mastitis

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Mastitis is a very common disease in female patients, postpartum due to the lack of experience of many new mothers, or improper feeding care, such as some mothers have more milk, the baby can not finish eating, and did not squeeze it in time, it will be very easy to have pain, if accumulated for a few days, it is easy to cause mastitis, if postpartum women suffer from mastitis, how to treat, the next step I'll share it with you.

How to treat chronic mastitis

First: wash your hands before feeding. At the same time, wake up the mothers at this time. During pregnancy, they should often wipe the breast to reduce the multiplication of bacteria and enhance the disease resistance and damage tolerance of nipple skin. At the same time, when feeding the baby, they should pay special attention to using 3% boron solution or warm water to clean the nipple and areola before and after feeding.

Second: every time the baby sucks milk, try to let the baby suck empty milk. If the baby can't suck empty, it can be squeezed out by massage or sucked out by sucking machine. Don't let the milk stop accumulating in the breast, without milk nutrients, even if the bacterial infection and inflammation will not worsen.

Third: if there is early mastitis, mild symptoms can not stop breastfeeding. At this time can be local hot compress, this method can promote smooth discharge of milk. At the same time, the patients should massage along the direction of breast root to nipple for 8 to 10 minutes every 3 to 4 hours, and try to squeeze the milk or suck it out with a sucking device.

matters needing attention

If in the process of breast-feeding, there is a nipple crack, this time you can choose to apply cod liver oil or castor oil bismuth agent, before feeding the medicine to wipe clean. When severe punishment is given to chapped patients, breast-feeding should be suspended. Milk should be squeezed out by hand or sucked out by suction device. After wound healing, breast-feeding should be conducted.