Why can't you apply heat to treat mastitis?

Mastitis is a common breast disease in clinical medicine, which often occurs in breastfeeding women. Generally speaking, if the symptoms of mastitis are not serious, you can continue breastfeeding, but if the symptoms are serious, you need to stop breastfeeding. At this time, you can use physical methods to alleviate the symptoms. The following mainly introduces to everyone whether mastitis can be treated with heat.

First of all, mastitis refers to a subacute suppurative infection of the female breast, which is one of the common diseases in the confinement period. The cause of the disease is related to the fever of women after giving birth, especially the chance of disease is very high in the first period of life. The main symptoms after the disease are breast pain, local skin temperature, tenderness, etc. At the same time, there will be some hard lumps with unclear boundaries and dull pain.

Secondly, subacute mastitis develops more rapidly. Three days after the onset, local infiltration and extravasation of the breast skin disease occur. At this time, when the condition is not very serious, it is recommended to use physical methods to alleviate the symptoms. Among them, hot compress on the breast is a method that can increase the blood flow to the breast tissue, promote chemotaxis of leukocytes and enhance the phagocytic function of leukocytes. In addition, it can effectively promote the absorption of inflammatory exudates and has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.

Then mastitis can be treated with hot compress. The specific hot compress method needs to be understood. The time for hot compress is 24 hours after the onset of mastitis in women who have given birth. The hot compress group is women whose inflammation has been localized. Women should use a hot compress of about 50℃, directly place it on the swollen part of the breast, cover the top of the breast with a gauze pad for insulation, each hot compress time is about 30 minutes, and the frequency of hot compress is 3 to 4 times/d.

Finally, in addition to using hot compresses to relieve symptoms, you can also perform breast massage on the basis of hot compresses. This has a certain effect on relieving the swelling and pain of mastitis. If the symptoms are serious, you need to seek medical treatment.

In short, hot compress is a very good way to relieve breast inflammation. Persistent use of hot compress every day can effectively help women who have just given birth to relieve breast inflammation. In addition, maintain a happy and comfortable mood, and try to avoid eating some light foods that secrete milk to prevent excessive milk secretion from aggravating breast inflammation.