How to treat mastitis?

According to a survey, the incidence of breast hyperplasia in my country has increased sharply. The number of patients with breast hyperplasia is large, the scope is wide, and the onset is rapid. Breast cancer has become the number one killer of women. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, one person dies from breast cancer every minute! Experts suggest: one in every 10 patients with breast hyperplasia may develop breast cancer! However, many patients with breast hyperplasia do not pay enough attention to it. If women fail to face and treat breast hyperplasia in the early stages, they may eventually pay with their lives! So, today we will talk about the treatment of mastitis.

1. Pay attention to cleaning

Pay attention to rest in the early stage, stop breastfeeding, clean the nipples and areola, and promote milk discharge (using a breast pump or sucking). Those who need incision and drainage should stop breastfeeding. This is the first prerequisite for treating mastitis.

2. Use milk-reducing drugs

Stop breastfeeding on the affected side and use a breast pump to express the milk. Appropriate lactation drugs can be used, such as oral administration of 1 mg of ethinyl estradiol 3 times a day, or 2.5 mg of bromocriptine 3 times a day.

3. Systemic antibiotics

To prevent and treat severe infection and sepsis, antibiotics are selected based on bacterial culture and drug sensitivity, and intravenous antibiotics are given when necessary.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment

Heat-clearing and detoxifying agents are used to treat early mastitis. The main symptoms in the initial stage are milk stasis and internal accumulation of heat and toxicity. The treatment principles are detoxification, heat-clearing, lactation and swelling reduction. Oral medication: You can take Trichosanthes and Burdock Soup (9g each of cooked burdock, raw gardenia, honeysuckle, forsythia, 12g each of whole kudzu vine (crushed) and dandelion, 4.5g each of tangerine peel and tangerine leaves, 6g of bupleurum, and 9g of Scutellaria. Decoction in water, one dose per day). For swelling and pain, add frankincense, myrrh, and red peony root.

5. Heat

Apply local hot compress, or wash 60 grams each of fresh dandelion and honeysuckle leaves, add a little vinegar or wine, and mash them for external application. Support your breasts with wide bands or a bra.

6. Closure

60-80 ml of 0.25% procaine for breast sealing can reduce inflammation. Choose broad-spectrum antibiotics orally or intravenously. One million units of penicillin can be dissolved in 20 ml of normal saline and injected around the inflammatory mass.

7. Drainage of pus

If an abscess has formed, it should be incised and drained. The incision should be radial to the nipple, avoiding the areola. For retromammary abscess or deep abscess under the breast, an arc-shaped incision can be made at the sternotomy fold under the breast.

Combining the seven methods of treating mastitis, patients should maintain a good attitude and take a two-pronged approach, and the treatment effect will be better. Breast disease is not incurable. As long as we maintain a good attitude, strictly follow the doctor's instructions, take medicine on time, and pay attention to hygiene, mastitis will soon say goodbye to us.