Causes of breast swelling, heat and pain

The health of the mother is closely related to the health of the newborn. Only when the mother is healthy enough can the newborn get more nutrition. When there is a problem with the mother's health, the newborn will also be affected. Now let’s talk about the causes of redness, swelling, heat and pain in the breasts.

reason

1. Bacterial invasion

The pathogenic bacteria of this disease are mostly Staphylococcus aureus, and a few are Streptococci. Bacteria enter through the cracks in the nipple skin or the chapped areola, spread along the lymphatic vessels to the fat and fibrous tissue between the mammary lobules and the glandular lobules, causing acute suppurative cellulitis of the breast. There are also a few cases where postpartum infection complications occur in other parts of the body, and the bacteria spread to the breast through the blood circulation, causing the disease.

2. Milk stasis

Breast milk facilitates the growth of invading bacteria. Causes of milk stasis include:

① The nipples are too small or inverted and are not corrected in time before birth, making it difficult for the baby to suck milk or even unable to breastfeed.

② Excessive milk and incomplete emptying. The mother does not understand the secretion of milk, and the excess milk cannot be discharged in time and is retained in the breast.

③ Blockage of the milk ducts makes it difficult to discharge milk. Inflammation, tumors and external compression of the milk ducts themselves can all affect normal breastfeeding.

3. Cracked nipples

After delivery, if the mother fails to master the correct breastfeeding technique, or the baby's sucking is abnormal, or if irritants such as soap or ethanol desiccant are used excessively on the nipples, or if the baby's oral motor function is disordered, nipple fissures may occur, allowing bacteria to invade through the small cracks in the nipple and reach the subcutaneous and interlobular tissues through the lymphatic vessels to cause infection. When the nipples are cracked, breastfeeding is painful and the milk cannot be fully sucked out, causing milk stasis and creating conditions for the reproduction of invading bacteria.

Problems with the mother's breasts will prevent the newborn from obtaining breast milk normally and thus from obtaining the necessary immunity, which will threaten the newborn's health. I hope mothers can realize their own problems and cooperate with treatment so that their newborns can receive breastfeeding normally.