Causes of nipple pain during breastfeeding

For those of you who have just started to become mothers, you may not have the experience to take care of your children, which may lead to your children sucking milk incorrectly or your feeding method being incorrect, which may cause your nipples to always hurt. It may also be because your excessive milk secretion causes your nipples to always hurt. For the symptom of constant nipple pain, we recommend that you relieve it in time, otherwise it will have a great impact on your breastfeeding.

If your nipples are painful, it may be due to nipple fissures, which is related to incorrect sucking, improper breastfeeding method, or oral motor dysfunction in the baby. If the pain is mild, you can continue breastfeeding. If the pain is severe on the affected side, you should stop breastfeeding. You can express milk by hand or use a breast pump to extract milk and feed it to the baby. Nipple herpes is mostly caused by oral virus infection when the baby sucks after the nipple is cracked. You can prick the white spots with a needle, squeeze out some blood, apply erythromycin ointment, and remember to wipe the medicine clean when feeding.

Using a breast pump is a bit painful. You can sometimes squeeze it with your hands. You can also try to let the baby suck it out as much as possible. If it doesn’t work, ask your husband to help you suck it. This will be more comfortable. If there is too much milk and it is not squeezed out, it will cause lumps. To avoid the pain when the baby is sucking, you can buy a nipple protection shield, which is a bit like the nipple of a bottle. You can cover it on it and let the baby suck, so it won’t hurt. Especially when the baby is teething, this can prevent the baby from biting with his teeth.

It is mainly caused by breast lymph retention, venous congestion, interstitial edema and obstruction of mammary ducts. Prevention and treatment methods: Mothers should breastfeed as early as possible. If there is a lump, you can apply hot compress and massage the lump before breastfeeding; you can also use a breast pump to draw out milk to promote patency of the mammary ducts. Also, you should clean the nipples promptly after breastfeeding to prevent inflammation and infection.

In order to help female friends relieve breast engorgement and the effects of incorrect feeding methods during breastfeeding, we recommend that mothers save the content of this article, which will help you relieve nipple pain. The nipple pain we encounter during breastfeeding is mainly caused by milk engorgement. You just need to discharge the milk on time.