Can I breastfeed if I have mastitis?

After suffering from mastitis, more mothers are not worried about whether their disease can be cured, but they are worried that their children will not be able to eat milk, because breast milk is the best food for children. If children do not eat milk, their resistance will not be very good. Only children who eat breast milk have the strongest body. However, because they are troubled by the disease, they do not know whether they can breastfeed their children. So, can patients with mastitis breastfeed their children?

Can a new mother breastfeed if she has mastitis? Mastitis is a common gynecological symptom, and it mainly occurs in women 3 months after giving birth. This makes many new mothers very troubled because they still have to breastfeed under such circumstances.

Can a new mother breastfeed if she has mastitis?

Postpartum women may not breastfeed frequently enough, or their babies may not have the correct sucking position when feeding; or their clothes may be too tight, or they may wear bras at night, or the mother may squeeze the breasts too hard with her fingers when breastfeeding, which may cause milk to not flow out in time; or the breasts may be damaged by external forces, or nipple cracks may cause bacterial infection, which may lead to mastitis.

Mastitis often causes flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, headache, breast pain, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. Usually, symptoms occur in only one breast. The breasts often show symptoms of swelling, pain, and localized redness. Therefore, whether you can breastfeed if you have mastitis depends on the specific development. If it is in the early stage, you must continue to breastfeed and increase the frequency of breastfeeding, which is very necessary for the inflamed breast to recover as soon as possible. Because stopping breastfeeding not only affects baby feeding, but also increases the chance of milk stasis.

When mastitis worsens, the symptoms become more obvious, the pain becomes more severe, lumps become obvious, the skin becomes red and hot, and abscesses form. It is not easy to feed the baby during this period, or to feed with the other healthy breast. To promote smooth discharge of milk, stop breastfeeding and express the milk by hand or use a breast pump.

If you have a high fever during mastitis, you should stop breastfeeding your baby. The high fever has affected the quality of breast milk and it is not suitable to feed the child. Breastfeeding should be suspended for a period of time and other methods should be used to drain milk. Correct treatment under the guidance of a physician.

During the treatment process, if you take therapeutic drugs, you should determine whether you can breastfeed your child based on the characteristics of the drugs and under the guidance of a doctor. Some drugs are taken orally and absorbed by the body, which may affect the quality of breast milk, making it difficult to breastfeed. Generally speaking, Western medicine has a greater impact on breast milk, while Chinese medicine has a smaller impact or even no impact.

Through the above content, we know that when a mother has mastitis, she can breastfeed her child. If mothers do not breastfeed their children during mastitis, it will be very bad for the disease. When the pain of mastitis comes, it is best not to feed the child. If there is ulceration, do not feed the child. This will make it difficult for you to bear the pain and it will be more likely to cause infection.