Detailed explanation of the symptoms and treatment of chronic mastitis

Mastitis is a common disease among women during breastfeeding. This disease is very harmful to women's breasts and also affects the baby's breastfeeding. Mastitis is generally divided into acute mastitis and chronic mastitis. Let us introduce the specific symptoms of chronic mastitis.

Symptoms of chronic mastitis

Generally speaking, mastitis is divided into two types: acute mastitis and chronic mastitis. The following mainly discusses the symptoms of chronic mastitis.

There are two causes of chronic mastitis: one is the improper treatment of acute mastitis, such as improper use of antibiotics; the other is that the onset of the disease is a chronic inflammatory process, mostly due to poor milk discharge and milk stasis forming nodules. The symptoms of chronic mastitis are slow onset, long course, difficulty in healing, and long-lasting difficulty in disappearing; lumps can be felt in the breast, with lumps as the main manifestation. The lumps are hard in texture, with unclear boundaries and tenderness. They can adhere to the skin, but the lumps do not rupture and are not easy to form pus or dissipate. There is no typical redness, swelling, heat and pain in the local breast, and systemic symptoms such as fever, chills, and fatigue are not obvious. When you experience the above symptoms, you need to pay attention and be alert to whether it is chronic mastitis. The symptoms of chronic mastitis are as follows:

1. Chronic mastitis is different from acute mastitis. The symptoms of chronic mastitis are not very obvious in the early stage, the course of the disease is long, the lump is hard, the skin temperature is not high, the pain is mild, and it is suspected to be a tumor.

2. Inflammatory lumps: Acute mastitis often softens and forms abscesses as the disease progresses. The lumps of chronic mastitis are hard and tough, movable, with clear boundaries from the surrounding tissues, and can be as large as 5 cm or more.

3. Tuberculous lumps The incidence of breast tuberculosis is low, and the lumps are mostly located in the upper outer quadrant of the breast and are mostly unilateral.

4. Among hyperplastic masses, cystic hyperplasia and lobular hyperplasia of the breast are the most common.

5. Breast cysts are mostly solitary lumps, the size of soybeans and ping-pong balls, with a diameter of more than 5 cm. They are spherical, smooth in appearance, with clear boundaries from surrounding tissues, movable, soft and elastic.

6. Intraductal papilloma often occurs in the enlarged part of the milk duct near the nipple.

Chronic mastitis symptoms: residual mastitis

Residual mastitis: months or years after weaning, residual milk is still secreted in the mammary gland and causes infection. The clinical course is long, and abscesses are rarely formed. It only manifests as local pain and nodules. It occurs when the body's resistance is reduced and is prone to recurrence. It may be mistaken for inflammatory cancer. Pathological diagnosis is most valuable. Chronic fibrous mastitis is the remnant in the mammary gland or milk duct after acute suppurative mastitis.

Chronic mastitis symptoms - chronic fibrous mastitis

Chronic fibrous mastitis: After acute suppurative mastitis, one or two or three hard inflammatory nodules remain in the breast or milk duct, or the inflammatory abscess blocks the milk duct, causing fluid retention in the milk duct and the appearance of a lump. There is slight tenderness in the early stage, which then gradually shrinks. When the body's resistance decreases, the tumor may swell again and become painful. Mastitis can easily be misdiagnosed as a malignant tumor and needs to be diagnosed in combination with medical history or pathology.

The above is a brief introduction to the symptoms of chronic mastitis. Everyone must pay more attention to observation in daily life and not give this disease any opportunity to take advantage.

How to treat chronic mastitis

The treatment of chronic mastitis is based on the principles of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting lactation and reducing swelling. Different treatment methods and different medicines are used according to different stages. Generally, Chinese medicines such as dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, etc., and ready-made medicines such as Xinhuang tablets can be taken orally. Local physical therapy and hot compress can be applied. At the same time, use a bra to lift your breasts. In cases of plasma cell mastitis, surgery can be done to remove the dilated ducts and the inflamed glands they are located in when there is discharge from the nipple.