What to do if mastitis causes pus?

Mastitis with pus does indicate that the condition is quite serious and you must take effective treatment measures in a timely manner. You should massage the breast area regularly to remove the accumulated milk. If the condition is serious, surgical treatment is necessary.

1. Breast massage: Use negative pressure suction to drain out the remaining milk, such as using a breast pump or manual suction. Excessive negative pressure suction can easily cause temporary narrowing of the milk ducts, affecting the milk discharge effect. Breast massage uses the effect of squeezing to empty the milk ducts and promote the dissipation of congestion. This method is suitable for patients with blocked milk ducts, milk stasis, or early stages of lobular inflammation. This method is contraindicated if local edema is obvious, accompanied by fever, or an abscess has already formed.

2. Cold compress therapy: Cold compress can lower local temperature, reduce capillary exudation, and slow down the conduction of peripheral nerve impulses. It has the effects of relieving pain, reducing swelling, inhibiting the spread of inflammation, and reducing milk secretion. Abscess formation is faster with hot compress than with cold compress. The incision and drainage rate of cold compress is 40.42%, which is lower than that of hot compress (the incision rate of hot compress is 82.9%). The earlier the cold compress is applied, the better.

3. Hot compress treatment: 3 days after the onset of acute mastitis, local lesions show infiltration and exudation changes. At this time, hot compress can increase local tissue blood flow, promote leukocyte chemotaxis, improve the phagocytic function of leukocytes, promote the absorption, localization and liquefaction of inflammatory exudates, and has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.

4. The occurrence of this disease will cause great harm to the patient. If not treated in time, it may lead to very serious consequences. Therefore, after being diagnosed with this disease, the patient must receive treatment as soon as possible so that the condition can be alleviated as soon as possible. I hope all female friends can take this disease seriously to prevent it from gradually worsening and causing more serious harm to their bodies.