Xiao Wang had been a month since he had given birth. But recently she suddenly felt that after feeding her baby, her breasts would be a little red and she would feel a lot of pain. Not knowing what the reason was, she immediately rushed to the hospital for a check-up, and after the doctor's diagnosis, the doctor told her that it was because she did not empty her breasts in time after feeding, which caused mastitis.
So what is mastitis?
Mastitis occurs due to excessive breast filling, or due to an infection secondary to blocked ducts in the breast. At the beginning of the disease, there may be lumps in the breasts, or local tenderness, or local redness of the breasts, at this time, the mother does not have a fever and generally feels good. Further develops, the mass hardens, the local pain is obvious, the original local redness can become a piece of red, the mother feels serious discomfort, often high fever.
This is not just in Xiao Wang alone, many new mothers will feel headaches because of mastitis, plagued by this problem. But in fact, mastitis is only a common postpartum disease during postpartum lactation. But this disease is not just to make the mother feel discomfort and pain, over time will also affect the quality of breast milk, affect the health of the child. However, mothers should not be afraid of this, in fact, as long as they do a good job of daily health care protection during lactation, they can effectively prevent the occurrence of postpartum mastitis. As long as the following four points are done, you can effectively prevent postpartum mastitis.
1. Empty the breasts in time after breastfeeding
Timely breast emptying is an important part of effective prevention of mastitis, because if the mother ignores the matter of breast emptying, long-term milk stasis is the prelude and basis of bacterial infection. Too much milk, poor milk drainage, milk can accumulate into lumps. Stalted milk is the best medium for bacteria. Milk stasis is mostly caused by insufficient breastfeeding experience or improper methods, the pathogenic bacteria are mostly Staphylococcus aureus, a few are hemolytic streptococcus, through the nipple skin damage or the duct invades the breast parenchyma, a large number of reproduction destroys the breast tissue, the formation of polyamorous abscess, so it will cause the mother's mammary duct blockage, resulting in breast swelling, and then mastitis.
Therefore, every time the mothers feed the babies, if there is still some milk left in the breast, it must be emptied in time, if the baby of their own family has a small amount of food, so the mother's milk remaining more is too late to fully discharge, the mother can consider using a breast pump to suck out the excess milk.
And the breast pump is easy to use and easy to carry. New mothers can easily adjust the suction to choose the suction that suits them, and it will not hurt. Frequent and timely emptying of breast milk can help improve breast emptying. In this way, the milk that the baby sucks out and drinks will have a higher fat content, which will help the child grow.
In addition, the mother should not worry about what milk will be wasted, because our mother's milk is not limited, and it is impossible to suck it, on the contrary, the more you suck, the more milk will be. Therefore, mothers must empty their breasts in time after breastfeeding!
2. The feeding method should be paid attention to
Many mothers have some unscientific wrong methods in feeding their babies, such as some mothers will let the baby eat only one side of the nipple for a long time, or some mothers feed at a short interval and cannot grasp the time. Nipple dysplasia, nipple depression, nipple inversion or division, breast duct drainage is not smooth and stasis, so there should be a good feeding method to care for the nipple.
Therefore, we recommend that mothers feed their babies every three hours, not too often. In addition, when feeding their babies, mothers must not let the baby eat one side for a long time, and must choose alternating feeding left and right, so that it will not cause the long-term baby to bite only one side of the nipple and finally lead to the asymmetry of the left and right nipples. There is also the time when breastfeeding, mothers should also pay attention to whether the baby contains the entire areola or only the nipple, to avoid the nipple cracking situation. And after the mothers finish feeding the baby, they need to wipe it with warm water to avoid bacterial infection caused by the baby's sucking and residual milk. If any mother finds that her nipples are too dry, don't worry too much, just use mutton cream or vaseline to moisturize and moisturize the nipples, so that the nipples become more elastic.
In short, the method of breastfeeding the baby is also very important, and the scientific method can effectively prevent mastitis.
3. Correct conditioning
I believe that many mothers will start to undergo various kinds of conditioning after giving birth. In particular, many mothers will worry that they are not in good health and have less milk. I am very worried that my baby will not eat well and will not be able to meet the needs of the baby. So they will be in a hurry to go to the doctor, thinking that supplementing themselves with nutrition is the best choice, so they frantically began to eat those nutritious supplements for themselves, such as chicken soup, rib soup, fish soup and other high-calorie and high-fat supplements.
But this large number of highly nutritious foods to supplement the mother's body, there will be a very obvious effect in the short term, the milk will suddenly become more. However, this sudden increase in milk in large quantities can easily cause the mother to have a milk stasis, thereby blocking the mother's breast canal, thus triggering mastitis. It is the same as the need to empty the breasts in time as mentioned earlier.
Therefore, postpartum mothers must pay attention to the way of supplementing body nutrition, according to the scientific and reasonable combination of diet, scientific conditioning of their bodies. Families with the capacity can invite professional confinement nursing staff for mothers to carry out more professional nutrition treatment for mothers, or go to some postpartum body conditioning institutions for professional care. This can be effective in avoiding the situation of postpartum mastitis.
4. Pay attention to breast cleaning
The mother worked hard to conceive the baby in October, and after experiencing such a painful and painful period of time, the mothers were seriously injured and their bodies became very weak. Immunity and immunity will decline, and they are particularly susceptible to the invasion of bacteria. Therefore, mothers must pay attention to the cleaning environment and their own hygiene, especially the cleanliness of the breasts, because the child will have milk residue after pumping, which will breed a lot of bacteria. During this period, the mother's immunity has declined, and the immune system will let the bacteria take advantage of the loophole, so it is easy to get sick. Therefore, paying attention to the cleanliness of the breasts is to destroy bacteria from the source and prevent the invasion of bacteria.
Therefore, after each feeding of the baby, mothers can gently wipe the breasts with a wet towel, and mothers need to change their underwear frequently to keep their underwear clean. And when mothers buy underwear, they must choose pure cotton and no underwire for pregnant women. The choice of special maternity breastfeeding underwear can effectively prevent the mother's chest from sagging, not only that, because there is no steel rim and no pressure, it will not squeeze the breast, which can maintain the circulation of breast blood circulation. This can effectively allow the mother to have a healthy breast during breastfeeding, thus avoiding the occurrence of mastitis.
In fact, there may be many mothers who do not pay attention to mastitis, thus ignoring the management of the breast after childbirth, lactation will not pay attention to so much, but if you suffer from mastitis, it will bring serious damage to the mother's body, many times there will be some redness and swelling pain in the early stage, maybe many mothers will not care, but if left unattended, the bacteria will accelerate infection, and it will suppurate and produce pustules. At this time, you need to go to the hospital for incision and drainage. And after the onset of the disease, not only the mother's body will become very uncomfortable, so the nursing mother must pay more attention.
【Transferred from: Sohu Original - Parenting Little Tree】