Once a nursing mother has a fever, coupled with swollen breasts or other symptoms of breast discomfort, she doubts whether she will have mastitis, but it is not.
Although mastitis can manifest as a fever, the reverse is not true, that is, not all fever symptoms are caused by mastitis.
And for nursing mothers, even the most common fever may be accompanied by symptoms of breast discomfort. So, how should mothers correctly understand mastitis and distinguish between mastitis fever and ordinary fever?
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Lactation mastitis, which can be medically explained as acute purulent infection of the breast, is a common disease in the postpartum period and one of the causes of postpartum fever, most common in lactating women, especially in the first trimester. This condition can occur at any time during lactation, with the onset of breastfeeding being the most common.
When the mother is breastfeeding, if she does not pay attention to breast care, it will increase the probability of mastitis.
Acute mastitis mostly occurs in the first place of women who lack breastfeeding experience, 1 month after childbirth is a high incidence of mastitis, and after 6 months of the baby begins to grow teeth, the nipple at this stage is also susceptible to damage, should be carefully prevented, weaning period should be more vigilant against the occurrence of acute mastitis.
If you have acute mastitis, you will feel breast pain at first, local hard lumps, swelling and pain, and as the disease progresses, you may also have cold intolerance, chills or mastitis fever, and sometimes the body temperature can reach more than 39 ° C.
Once sick, most patients develop symptoms of fever. So what causes fever caused by lactating mastitis? The answer is that milk stasis leads to the multiplication and growth of invading bacteria.
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Under normal circumstances, the mother's milk will pass through the breast duct very smoothly with the smooth progress of the milk discharge process, but some special circumstances, such as poor nipple development, excessive milk secretion or less breast pumping in the baby, incorrect breastfeeding posture, unobstructed breast ducts and other reasons, are easy to cause milk to accumulate in the breast, promoting the multiplication and growth of invading bacteria, resulting in breast inflammation and mastitis fever.
In addition, bacteria can also invade the mammary ducts directly when the baby sleeps with a nipple in the mouth or when the baby is pumping with stomatitis, causing an infection and causing fever.
There is a clinical difference between mastitis fever and ordinary fever. Although mastitis fever, like ordinary fever, will have symptoms such as runny nose and muscle soreness, the common cold fever will not have regular breast pain, while mastitis fever will appear on the basis of the symptoms of ordinary fever, breast lumps, and there is a strong feeling of pain when touching the breast.
Mastitis is a great trouble for lactating mothers, unlike other periods of mastitis, at this stage, due to the increase in hormone secretion and breast development, it will aggravate the pain of mastitis, and more importantly, if it is more serious, it will also affect the normal breastfeeding of breast-milking babies.
Although mastitis is a common disease of mothers, but the so-called disease-free early prevention, early treatment of disease, the following for everyone to introduce some specific methods of prevention and treatment of mastitis.
1． Prevention method:
Maintain breast hygiene. Breast hygiene during pregnancy is very important, starting from the first 6 months of pregnancy, scrub the nipples and areolas with water or neutral soapy water every day, or apply nipples and areolas with cotton balls dipped in white wine to improve local resistance of the breasts.
Pay attention to rest, keep your mood comfortable, keep your mood stable and optimistic, and avoid irritation and melancholy.
Chinese medicine believes that negative emotions are easy to cause internal fire, and when the internal fire is strong, it will transpire the jin liquid in the body; in addition, the breast passes through the liver, and emotional depression will lead to liver depression and stagnation, which will cause milk accumulation. For this, the care of family members is certainly one thing, but the self-regulation role of mothers is more important.
Diet should be light and nutritious, such as often eat fresh lotus, loofah, etc.; avoid spicy, irritating, greasy, too greasy food will make the milk become too thick, resulting in blockage of the breast duct and then induce acute mastitis.
If the mother has congenital papillary deformity, it will be corrected after pregnancy. Mothers can usually use the breast pump to pump milk, 1 to 2 times a day, and then perform breast massage, or gently pull with the hand. In addition, those who already have a cleft nipple should be actively treated and should not be underestimated.
Keeping milk unobstructed, milk stasis is an important factor in triggering mastitis and should never be ignored.
Breastfeeding regularly, each time the milk is sucked out, if it is not exhausted, you can use a breast pump or massage to squeeze out, so that the milk is emptied as much as possible; once the milk is found to be too thick, it is easy to block the milk duct at this time, and the mother should eat more soup diet to play a role in diluting the milk.
During pregnancy or breastfeeding, if the mother has other infectious diseases, it is necessary to treat them properly.
Pay attention to keep warm, prevent colds, and avoid breastfeeding when the wind exposes the chest. External cold or too cold can cause poor milk production and cause blockage, which in turn can induce breast inflammation.
Pay attention to the baby's oral hygiene, such as the baby with oral diseases also need to be treated in time, and change the way of breastfeeding. Do not develop the habit of sleeping with nipples in nursing babies, and pay attention to the breastfeeding position.
2． Early treatment of the disease, proper care
Emotional disorders are inextricably linked to the disease, and patients should be advised to relieve their troubles, eliminate bad emotions, and pay attention to mental conditioning.
Early and timely dredging, to avoid nipple blockage, and to drain in time, it is not easy not to empty milk for too long (such as more than 4 hours).
During lactation, the nipple should be kept clean, and the nipples should be cleaned with warm water; regular breastfeeding, each time should be drained as much milk as possible, such as too much milk, the baby can not suck it all, should use the breast pump to empty the milk; fever, body temperature up to 39 ° C should not be pumped.
Herbal medicine is applied externally. Applying to the affected breast area can reduce breast pain and have an anti-inflammatory effect.
Diet should be light, eat less meat, avoid spicy.
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