How do you know if your breasts are blocked?

Postpartum mothers must learn more about whether their mammary ducts are well unblocked, because poor mammary duct unblocking will not only affect the baby's breastfeeding, but may also easily cause mastitis or other breast pain problems. Therefore, you must understand it in time. If you find that there is little milk in the breast, the breast rarely swells, or there are always milk congestion and lumps in the breast, then you must pay attention.

1. There is little milk in the breasts and the breasts rarely feel swollen.

2. The breast pain is unbearable. No matter what methods are used, the milk will not come out and the baby will not be able to eat it.

3. I always feel there is milk congestion or lumps in my breasts. They will disappear after rubbing them for a while, but will return if I stop rubbing them.

4. In the early stages, the breasts may feel swollen and painful. However, due to various reasons such as the baby not being around, being angry, or the baby not wanting to eat, the milk supply will become less and less, and the breasts will no longer be swollen.

5. The entire breast is swollen and hard as a rock. No amount of massaging, hot compresses, or sucking can help, let alone using a breast pump.

6. The milk supply is sufficient, but the breasts sometimes feel tingling, and there is a slight tenderness when touched.

7. Milk accumulation and breast heat are early symptoms of mastitis.

8. There are lumps of different sizes in the breasts, which slide when touched and feel painful when pressed.

9. Milk accumulation causes lumps in the breast, which will not go away no matter how hard you try. Sometimes there are lumps in the armpits, which also cannot be rubbed away.

10. During pregnancy, the breasts are not in the right position, the baby sucks or the breasts massage themselves too much, but the milk still cannot come down, causing nipple ulceration or cracking.

11. Most of the above-mentioned breast problems are directly related to blocked milk ducts. Chinese medicine emphasizes that "milk meridians are blocked; if they are unblocked, there will be no pain, but if there is pain, it means they are blocked." This is the principle.