Can mild mastitis still be breastfed
Release time : 05/09/2025 09:30:02
Mastitis is a relatively common disease, especially during lactation.
If a woman does not pay attention during lactation, it is easy to develop mastitis.
If a woman develops mild mastitis, can she continue to breastfeed? Can you still breastfeed with mild mastitis? Every woman is relatively weak after giving birth. If it is not properly maintained, she will be prone to gynecological diseases.
The most common disease is mastitis. Mastitis has a great impact on pregnant women and can also affect the health of children.
If I have mild mastitis, can I still breastfeed? 1. After childbirth, if you have mastitis and the symptoms are not very serious, you can still continue to breastfeed. However, if it is serious, you need to terminate breastfeeding.
If a woman suffers from acute mastitis in the early stages, she must stop nursing her child. If she continues to breastfeed, it may lead to more serious inflammation, so the best solution is to stop breastfeeding.
2. When acute mastitis occurs, breastfeeding must be stopped and active treatment is needed.
If acute mastitis has developed to the suppurative stage at an early stage, it is necessary to pay attention to that the milk has been seriously contaminated and will be very serious. In order to protect their own health and the baby's health, it is necessary to stop breastfeeding.
3. After the breastfeeding has ceased, treatment must be initiated immediately, during which anti-inflammatory drugs such as antibiotics are used.
These medications can enter the breast milk, so it is not advisable to breastfeed during their use. Additionally, there are other treatment options available, such as applying the medication topically for localized relief of symptoms.
These medications can also enter the breast milk, and it is not suitable for breastfeeding at that time.
During treatment, it is essential to express all the breast milk to avoid engorgement. Moreover, after treatment, it is necessary to express all the breast milk and wait for two to three days before breastfeeding, as residual medication in the milk may pose harm to the child.
What are the causes of mastitis? It is a common disease among women during lactation.
If this disease is not treated in time, it will lead to serious consequences. At the same time, when this disease occurs, we need to stop breastfeeding so as not to affect the child.
Breast inflammation is caused by the invasion of bacteria.
The pathogenic bacteria mainly include staphylococcus aureus and few cases are streptococcus.
If the skin of the nipple breaks, or the areola cracks, it is easy for bacteria to enter. And they can go along lymphatic vessels into the mammary gland lobules and acini, and then into fibrous tissue, finally causing purulent hemorrhagic phlegmon.
2. In lactation, if breast milk accumulates, it also facilitates the invasion and proliferation of bacteria.
Mammary engorgement is partly due to the female breast being too small or retracted, preventing normal lactation.
This can also occur when breast milk accumulates due to insufficient emptiness, eventually leading to mastitis.
3. If the nipple is cracked, it can easily get infected by bacteria when a baby sucks at it inappropriately or if a mother does not master the correct breastfeeding technique after giving birth.
4. If the mammary duct is blocked, secondary milk accumulation is prone to occur. If a woman does not empty her breasts or does not breastfeed regularly during lactation, milk accumulation will occur.
In some first-time women, the milk contains many exfoliated epithelial cells, which can easily cause obstruction of the mammary duct and aggravate milk accumulation.
What are the symptoms of mastitis? Mastitis is a relatively common disease.
Many women suffer from this disease.
When the disease reappears, there are some common symptoms.
Moreover, women need to understand the characteristics of the disease so that they can detect it early and receive treatment.
1. In the early stages of mastitis, nipple rupture occurs. This is a relatively obvious symptom, and nipple rupture can easily lead to bacterial infection. Therefore, when symptoms appear, women must pay attention to them and go to the hospital as soon as possible for examination and treatment.
2. After mastitis occurs, a woman will have a hard mass in her breast. At this time, the patient will experience breast pain, and the pain will feel hard when touching it.
Symptoms of redness and swelling may appear on the skin of the patient's breast.
These are the more common symptoms of mastitis.
3. The symptoms of early patients with mastitis are not very obvious, but they will worsen with the disease.
Some patients may experience nipple discharge, which may be hemorrhagic or serous.
Symptoms are severe, so treatment should be administered promptly.
4. After mastitis occurs, a lump appears in a woman's breast, and the skin will show protruding symptoms, and local skin will also have symptoms similar to orange peel.
Some patients may develop symptoms such as breast eczema and discoloration, and the breast may also undergo deformation.
These are common symptoms of mastitis, and should be checked promptly and treated when they occur.
Treatment of mastitis Mastitis is a relatively common breast disease. When it appears, it must be actively treated, because mastitis brings great harm to women.
If mastitis is not treated promptly, cancer is prone to development.
What are the methods to treat mastitis? 1. Mastitis is generally divided into two stages. One is before the formation of an abscess, mainly due to milk accumulation.
In this situation, observation is generally recommended. In the early stages, if only mastitis is present without other symptoms or localized symptoms, patients can continue breastfeeding, but it is crucial to maintain hygiene and ensure that the milk is expelled after each feeding.
2. If the patient exhibits symptoms of concomitant pain, it is necessary to temporarily cease breastfeeding and apply a local wet dressing. 25% magnesium sulfate should be used for this wet dressing, and whether antibacterial medication should be added based on the local condition is also considered.
3. The pathogen of mastitis is usually staphylococcus aureus, so when choosing antimicrobial drugs, it is necessary to select those sensitive to staphylococcus aureus for treatment. If an abscess forms, surgical treatment is required. The common method used is incision and drainage, followed by regular dressing changes. In addition to these measures, the recovery process will be relatively fast.
Breast abscess diet: If you do not treat breast abscess in time, it will cause serious harm to women. Moreover, breast abscess can easily trigger other more serious diseases.
The emergence of mastitis requires active treatment and more attention is needed in daily diet.
1. When mastitis occurs, most of it is caused by the accumulation of heat poison, so some spicy and irritating foods cannot be eaten, because these foods will help heat and make a fire and cause further spread of inflammation. Therefore, patients must not eat Garlic, curry, pickles, mustard, spicy oil, hot sauce, chili peppers, etc.
2. Patients should not eat some milk promoting foods in normal times, such as squid fish, hairtail, sea shrimp, hyman, eel, crucian carp, carp, cuttlefish, etc.
This type of food easily generates heat and helps fire, making inflammation difficult to control, so it cannot be eaten.
3. Patients with mastitis can eat more light and nutritious foods, such as red bean soup, fresh lotus root, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, cucumber, loofah, green vegetables, tomatoes, mung bean soup, etc.
Patients can also eat more fresh fruits and vegetables in normal times.
These can not only provide nutrition, but also provide vitamins and improve resistance.
Patients with mastitis should reduce fat intake, such as fat meat, cream, cheese, etc.
Protein intake also needs to be limited, because protein also contributes to the secretion of milk. After mastitis recovers, you can appropriately increase the intake of protein food.
Mastitis is a relatively common disease for women and can easily affect women's normal life and health. Therefore, active treatment should be carried out when mastitis occurs.
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Should there be any discomfort, it is advised to seek medical attention immediately. The diagnosis and treatment should be based on the professional medical advice provided by a face-to-face consultation.