Several methods of mastitis prevention.
1. Avoid stagnation of milk.
2. Prevent nipple injury and treat any injury promptly.
3. Don’t give your child the habit of sleeping with the nipple.
Many mothers are always used to letting their children sleep with their nipples when breastfeeding them, which is an important cause of mastitis in breastfeeding women.
4, eat more coarse food: eat more whole grain foods, beans and vegetables, control the reporting of animal protein, while paying attention to the supplementation of appropriate trace elements. The trace element selenium is the king of anti-cancer and can effectively inhibit cancer cells.
5, pregnancy massage health care: about 6 months pregnant to start the above massage methods, daily adherence, not only can smooth the mammary glands, so that breastfeeding to reduce pain, but also to reduce the incidence of mastitis and breast cancer after breastfeeding.
Massage methods.
(1) hands up and down around the breast, do gentle squeezing, stroking, strength to drive the entire breast movement is appropriate, should not be too hard to avoid injury to the surrounding tissue.
(2) daily unilateral breast massage for about 15 minutes.
Treatment of mastitis
When there is redness, swelling, heat and pain in the breast but an abscess has not yet formed, the following methods of treatment can be used.
(1) Promote milk evacuation: When you feel breast pain, swelling or even local skin redness, breastfeed your child diligently and let your child eat as much milk as possible from the breast, and if necessary, use suction to evacuate the breast. When the inflammation worsens, the skin is edematous, hard and hot, purple-blue, and the nipples are edematous. Swollen, painful hard nodes in the armpits, so that the arms cannot lean into the trunk, are the result of excessive lactation of the parammary glands. You should milk your baby by hand 7-8 times a day, emptying the milk as much as possible each time. You can use an oiled wooden comb to gently massage the back towards the nipple to unclog the mammary glands, and if necessary, ask a surgeon to help with the massage, which is the most effective measure to treat early mastitis and prevent further development of inflammation.
2, local physiotherapy and hot compresses: available physiotherapy or hot towel hot compresses, 20-30 minutes each time, 3-4 times a day, effective for early inflammation.
3.Application of antibiotics: When the above methods are ineffective, penicillin or other antibiotics should be added promptly, intramuscular injection or intravenous drip can be used.
4, Chinese medicine treatment: Chinese folk medicine has many remedies to treat mastitis with significant effect.
Treatment when the mammary gland is locally suppurated
1.Let the child take breast milk from only the healthy side of the breast.
2, must go to the surgical treatment, the local abscess will be incised and drained, insist on changing medicine to promote healing as soon as possible.
3.Cooperate with physical therapy to promote local blood circulation and wound healing.
4.Combine with Chinese medicine treatment.