What causes breast lumps during lactation?

Breastfeeding mothers often experience tingling pain during feeding, and in more serious cases, they may feel a lump in the breast. What causes breast lumps during lactation? Common lumps and nodules are caused by diseases such as milk stasis and breast hyperplasia. Breastfeeding mothers should pay more attention to their breast problems and seek medical attention as soon as possible if any disease occurs.

Breast hyperplasia is a common gynecological disease. The early symptoms of breast hyperplasia are single or multiple growths of lumps in different parts of the breast. The lumps are soft in texture, have unclear boundaries, are movable, and are often accompanied by varying degrees of pain. The early symptoms of breast hyperplasia are enlargement of the lump and aggravation of pain, especially before menstruation, after fatigue, or when there are emotional fluctuations such as anger (called qi stagnation in traditional Chinese medicine). After menstruation, the lump will significantly shrink and the pain will be relieved. The pain is usually distending and rarely stabbing.

Consider the lump to be caused by milk stasis. The causes of milk stasis include: nipple hypoplasia (too small or inverted) interfering with breastfeeding; too much milk or the baby sucking too little milk, resulting in the milk not being completely emptied; milk duct blockage affecting milk discharge. You can use hot water for hot compresses and local massage. After breastfeeding your baby, you can use a breast pump to help you express milk and try to express as much milk as possible. If the lump does not go away, or if fever or unbearable pain occurs, you need to go to the hospital and receive timely treatment under the guidance of a doctor to avoid mastitis.

Breastfeeding precautions

Breastfeeding is the process of feeding your baby with your mother's milk. Studies have shown that breast milk contains calories, protein, fat, calcium, iron, vitamins, etc., and is the best choice for infant growth and development.

Correct feeding posture:

The mother should completely relax herself, sit or lie in a comfortable position, and use pillows or quilts to support herself or the baby when breastfeeding. Let the baby approach the mother, with his face facing the mother's breast and his nose facing the nipple. The baby's head, neck and body are in a straight line, and the baby's belly is close to the mother's belly. If it is a newborn, the mother should support the baby's head, shoulders and buttocks.

The mother can hold the breast with her hands and gently touch the baby's upper lip. When the baby's mouth opens wide, she can quickly hold the baby close to the breast (not moving the mother's body) and let the baby hold the areola and nipple at the same time, rather than just the nipple.

Drugs prohibited during lactation :

When breastfeeding women take medication, they often only focus on whether the medication affects milk secretion, rarely consider the effect of the medication on the baby, or simply don't know which medications have an effect on the baby. In fact, many drugs can enter the baby's body through the mother's breast milk and thus affect the infant. Although the concentration of some drugs entering breast milk is very low, they can cause serious harm to the baby.