What should I do if there is a lump when I express milk?

Many people have experienced hard lumps after expressing breast milk. The reason is that there is a lump in the breast or the milk is not expressed in time and is retained in the mammary gland, causing scarring. Breast pain caused by conditions near the breast. The human body is a system of interconnected entities, and a change in one location usually causes changes in nearby locations. Diseases such as pneumonia and costochondritis can easily cause breast pain and discomfort.

Regular breast pain caused by menstrual physiology. The menstrual cycle affects the changes in human hormones, which also affects the comfort level of the breasts. The pain caused by this physiology is normal, and most young women suffer from pain. The pain can be relieved by drinking brown sugar water, massaging the lower abdomen, etc.

Many pregnant women secrete enough milk right after giving birth, so that the baby can have sufficient digestion and absorption, improve resistance, and reduce various possible diseases. However, some parents have lumps in their breast milk after expressing breast milk, so they are very worried that it is due to bacterial infection and are afraid to raise babies. In this case, everyone should treat it in time and remove the lumps in the breast.

What should I do if there are hard lumps in my breast milk?

1. You can use a hot cotton towel to relieve pain. If there is a lump in the breast and it hurts, you can use a hot towel to warm the lump area, which can help unclog the mammary gland and relieve pain.

2. You can use boiling water to shower the breasts and massage them. Shower the breasts with boiling water, gently massage the chest, and shake the breasts up and down, which is beneficial to the discharge of breast milk and thus beneficial to the patency of the mammary glands.

3. You can use a manual breast pump to extract the milk. If you have milk knots, you can buy a manual breast pump to suck out the milk. It may be a little painful when sucking, but you just have to bear with it if the milk knots are not very serious. You can use a manual breast pump to clear the milk and remove the hard lumps. If the manual breast pump cannot remove the hard lumps, you can ask a professional lactation consultant for help, because they have professional skills and experience, and should be very helpful in how to remove them.