How to deal with milk blockage and fever

Important reminder: If a pregnant mother experiences milk blockage and fever during breastfeeding, she should take immediate measures to clear the milk ducts. In addition to letting the baby continue to suck milk, mothers with milk blockage can also use a breast pump to express milk to promote smooth milk ducts. Secondly, massaging the breast to unclog the breast and relieve discomfort symptoms is also a very effective method.

For example, for female friends who are breastfeeding, milk blockage is a relatively common condition, but when it is serious, it will cause symptoms such as mastitis, fever, breast pain, etc., which is not only harmful to their own health, but also affects the feeding of the baby. Therefore, once problems such as milk blockage and fever occur, timely measures must be taken to treat them. The following are some effective ways to treat milk blockage and fever.

1. Insist on letting the baby suck milk: The fundamental reason for milk blockage fever is that breast milk is not discharged smoothly, and milk swelling will occur after milk blockage. Once this happens, do not stop breastfeeding, but let the baby insist on sucking milk. Through breast pumping, the mother's mammary ducts can be unblocked, promoting the smooth discharge of milk. After the mammary ducts are normal, the mother's milk secretion will be more abundant. In addition to letting the baby continue to suck milk, mothers with blocked milk can also use a breast pump to express milk to promote smooth mammary glands. What needs to be noted is that no matter whether you let the baby suck or use a breast pump to express milk, you should always take good care of the nipples. It is best to clean the nipples with warm water to avoid problems such as breast inflammation and nipple chappedness.

2. Massage the chest: When milk blockage and fever occur, the effect of massaging the mammary glands and relieving discomfort symptoms is very quick and obvious. When the mother does self-massage, she should first wash her hands with warm water, then expose her chest, hold the entire breast with both hands, and use appropriate amplitude to push, massage and squeeze from the periphery of the breast to the position of the nipple. If you find obvious swelling and pain in a certain part of the breast during massage, you can also squeeze it with a little force.

3. Use appropriate methods to reduce fever: If the mother's fever during breastfeeding does not exceed 38.5 degrees, there is no need to take antipyretics. Physical methods can be used to reduce the temperature. However, if the fever exceeds 38.5 degrees, taking antipyretics requires stopping breastfeeding. At this time, letting the baby continue to drink milk will have certain effects, and the milk may be squeezed out and lost.

The above is the treatment method for milk blockage fever introduced to you today. I hope that after reading it, it will be helpful for the treatment of this condition. Finally, I want to remind you that during the treatment period, you must also pay attention to maintaining a light diet and do not eat too much food that increases milk secretion to prevent the milk swelling symptoms from becoming more serious before the mammary ducts are unobstructed.