Treatment of mastitis during breastfeeding

Mastitis, which is an inflammatory process, localized in the mammary glands, is quite common during breastfeeding. That is why many young mothers, having first encountered the disease, do not know what to do and how the mastitis is treated during feeding.

Why does mastitis occur during lactation?

Before starting to treat mastitis, frolic during breastfeeding, it is necessary to determine the exact cause of its appearance. Most often it is:

However, the main possible cause of mastitis in nursing is lactostasis - milk stagnation, leading to the development of pathology.

What are the signs of mastitis?

In order to start treatment of the disease in a timely manner, all women who are breastfeeding should know the signs of the development of the disease. So the main symptoms of mastitis in nursing, which depend on the stage of the disease, are:

  1. Serous stage of the disease - characterized by an increase in body temperature to 38 or more degrees, which is accompanied by a headache, chest pain and a feeling of raspiraniya in iron.
  2. The stage of infiltration - the breast increases in volume, becomes edematous. The body temperature rises to 39-39.5 degrees.
  3. The purulent stage of the disease is accompanied by painful sensations during palpation, the chest in the place of the inflammation focus becomes fiery red. In the milk expressed by the mother, there are purulent impurities.

Is it possible to get rid of mastitis?

Independent treatment of mastitis in her nursing mother can not do. To do this, you need to contact your doctor. However, in the event that the disease is caused by lactostasis, a woman is able to alleviate her condition. For this, it is necessary to try as often as possible to express the breast, not allowing the stagnation of milk.

In case the disease has passed into the purulent stage, then the treatment of mastitis in the nursing should be exclusively done by a doctor. Wherein a woman is given tests, and milk is also taken to establish pathogens. Only after this, appropriate medications are prescribed.

If antibiotic therapy does not bring results, then surgery is prescribed. The woman opens an abscess during the operation, the contents are completely removed, and the cavity is treated with an antiseptic solution.

Thus, the process of treatment of mastitis in nursing women completely depends on the stage of the disease.