What to do if you have a lump in your breast during lactation

Many women are immersed in joy after becoming mothers. Breastfeeding is something every mother must do, and children who are breastfed have stronger resistance. However, many mothers develop breast lumps during lactation. What should they do? We also consulted authoritative experts in gynecology to hear what they say. I hope my introduction can give you some inspiration.

1. Initial stage:

At the beginning, there are often nipple cracks, nipple pain during breastfeeding, accompanied by milk stagnation or lumps, and sometimes one or two milk ducts are blocked. Then there is local swelling and pain in the breast, with or without lumps, accompanied by tenderness, the skin is not red or slightly red, and the skin is not hot or slightly hot. The systemic symptoms are not obvious, or are accompanied by chills and fever, chest tightness and headache, irritability, temper tantrum, and loss of appetite.

Second, the suppuration stage:

Mastitis will develop, and after the initial stage, it will enter the purulent stage, that is, the lump in the affected breast does not disappear or gradually increases in size, the local pain worsens, or there is throbbing pain, or even persistent severe pain, accompanied by obvious tenderness, red skin, burning skin, high fever, thirst, nausea and anorexia, and enlarged and tender lymph nodes in the ipsilateral axillary. = Around the 10th day of breast redness, swelling, heat and pain, the center of the breast lump gradually becomes soft, and there is a sense of fluctuation when pressed. The local area is diffusely swollen and hot, and there is obvious tenderness. Pus is aspirated during puncture, and sometimes pus can flow out of the nipple. Systemic symptoms worsen.

3. Post-collapse stage:

When an acute abscess matures, it may burst and discharge pus on its own, or it may be drained through surgical incision. If the pus flows out smoothly, the local swelling and pain will decrease, the fever and chills will disappear, and the wound will gradually heal. If the pus does not drain smoothly after ulceration, the swelling does not go away, the pain does not decrease, and the fever does not subside, it may form a pus bag, or the pus may spread to other milk networks to form a hereditary mastitis. There are also cases where milk overflows from the sore after ulceration, and it cannot be cured for a long time, resulting in milk leakage.

How is mastitis treated?

Expert advice: American MG multidimensional combined therapy

This therapy is based on modern breast disease treatment technology and traditional Chinese medicine meridian therapy methods. It combines energy color light, magnetic effects and electric pulses, external application of plasters, diet therapy and other multi-dimensional combined therapies to act on breast diseased tissue, promote local metabolism and activate the immune system, change the excitability of peripheral nerves, and at the same time enable the diseased tissue to better absorb external medications to achieve ideal therapeutic effects.

The above article mainly tells you the basic knowledge about breast lumps during lactation from three stages. I believe that after reading the above article, you should have a deep understanding of these basic knowledge. I hope mothers will carefully observe their breast conditions during the breastfeeding period, and go to the hospital for treatment immediately if they find a lump until they recover.