For nipple swelling, pain and hardness, consider the following factors: I. Symptoms of breast hyperplasia, if during breastfeeding may be the manifestation of acute mastitis, the typical symptom is the breast cycle of swelling, pain, may be combined with breast nodules, or there is a nipple overflow. Second, acute mastitis, most of the occurrence in the breastfeeding period, nipple damage, the typical manifestation is the redness, swelling, heat, pain in the breast, the breast combined with inflammatory masses, inflammatory masses may form abscesses, need to maintain the patency of the milk, choose the appropriate anti-inflammatory drugs for symptomatic treatment, third, the formation of abscesses, puncture and pumping pus if necessary, can be repeated, or can be placed in a tube to drain, if the effect is unsatisfactory, if necessary, you can choose to Incision and drainage, abscess in the areola is to take the ring areola incision, to ensure that the abscess is separated from the open, to ensure that the drainage is smooth, if necessary, you can carry out more than one incision of the counterpart of the drainage.