Can using a breast pump cause mastitis?

A breast pump is an instrument developed specifically for breastfeeding women, because many women will experience blocked mammary glands during breastfeeding, and a breast pump can help women clear their mammary glands. At the same time, the breast pump can also suck out the remaining milk in the woman's breasts, put it into some small bags, and store it in the refrigerator for the baby to drink next time. But many women are worried that frequent use of breast pumps will cause mastitis?

The main time of occurrence of mastitis is during the lactation period. After all, the repeated secretion of milk will further irritate and affect the breast area. Especially in some lactation periods, when the milk is not sucked out in time after secretion, mastitis will occur after the milk accumulates in the breast for a long time. After suffering from mastitis, it will cause breast pain and burning and even purulent lesions, so patients need to pay special attention when facing the presence of mastitis.

Many female friends are unable to breastfeed their babies every time during the breastfeeding period due to work needs. However, since the secretion of milk needs to be effectively sucked out, they will use a breast pump to effectively suck out the secreted milk. This way, the milk secretion can be gradually completely sucked out without causing various problems such as breast engorgement and mastitis.

Of course, there is a chance that some female friends will get mastitis after using a breast pump. After all, after using a breast pump to extract milk, if some female friends do not extract it very cleanly, it will easily cause further milk accumulation and irritation inside the mammary gland, which will lead to mastitis.

The probability of getting mastitis from using a breast pump varies to a certain extent, and it mainly varies from person to person. It does not mean that using a breast pump will definitely cause mastitis. Therefore, when using a breast pump to express milk during breastfeeding, you must pay attention to completely sucking out the milk inside. In effectively preventing various milk retention problems, you can achieve the ultimate treatment effect.

From the above, we can see that whether using a breast pump will cause mastitis depends on the individual. After all, if you are not particularly careful to suck out all the milk when using a breast pump, the accumulation of milk will repeatedly affect and irritate the breasts and cause mastitis. So whether it will cause mastitis depends on how the individual uses the breast pump.