Does mastitis affect breastfeeding?

Many mothers often find themselves suffering from some diseases when they are breastfeeding their children, such as mastitis. Many mothers who are breastfeeding their children will suffer from this disease. There are reasons for this, such as milk backlog, children not eating, improper care, infection and other reasons can cause mothers to suffer from mastitis. However, mothers are very worried when they suffer from the disease at this time, worried that their children can't breastfeed. So does mastitis affect breastfeeding?

Of course, many mothers infected with mastitis will experience unbearable pain. New mothers are also afraid that mastitis will affect the health of breast milk, so they are naturally concerned about whether they can breastfeed with mastitis. In fact, for new mothers, they should be able to breastfeed normally.

When a nursing mother experiences warmth, swelling, or pain in one breast or part of a breast, she may have mastitis.

Mastitis generally does not cause milk infection, so you can continue breastfeeding. If you stop breastfeeding, mastitis may worsen and increase the pain.

When the mother is unwilling to breastfeed with the affected side due to unbearable breast pain, she can feed the healthy breast first, open the bra on the affected side, let some milk flow out to relieve pressure, and then feed the affected breast.

If a breast abscess occurs and an incision and drainage is performed, breastfeeding can continue as long as the drainage tube is far away from the areola and does not affect breastfeeding. You can also temporarily wean the affected breast, express the milk and discard it, and then resume breastfeeding after the breast abscess heals.

Puerperal mastitis often occurs after the first delivery and is divided into the following two types according to the development of the disease: stasis mastitis and suppurative mastitis. Symptoms of mastitis: breast swelling, pain, tenderness of lumps, redness and swelling on the surface, and fever; if the disease continues to develop, the symptoms will worsen and the breast will have throbbing pain. In severe cases, there is a high fever, chills, obvious breast swelling and pain, local skin redness and swelling, nodules, tenderness, and enlarged and tender lymph nodes under the affected side. The inflammation softens within a few days, forming breast swelling, fluctuation, abscesses, etc. Can you breastfeed if you have mastitis: You can take self-care measures such as hot compresses and massages. Going to the hospital for treatment usually cures the disease in about a week. Since mastitis only infects breast tissue and has nothing to do with breast milk, it will not be transmitted to the baby and you can continue breastfeeding.

If the mastitis is not serious and it is not painful to feed the baby, then the baby can be breastfed. And patients with mastitis should let the baby suck more after suffering from the disease. This is beneficial for the treatment of mastitis. Mothers should not be anxious after suffering from mastitis. If they are anxious, they will blindly take medicine to treat themselves. They cannot take medicine indiscriminately when breastfeeding their children.