Mastitis during breastfeeding (IV): Use antibiotics with caution in mastitis during breastfeeding

  In the early stage of canker sores, the main problem is milk stagnation, and the blocked milk ducts can be reopened by massage, which usually heals in two or three times.  The abscess gradually forms during the pus-filled period, and at this time, bacterial infection can occur, but most of them are limited in scope and do not invade the whole body, and the use of antibiotics is not advocated, and if a large number of insensitive antibiotics are used, it is easy to form a stiff mass, which is difficult to heal and brings trouble to the treatment.  If the swelling spreads rapidly to the surrounding area, the skin color turns dark, high fever and chills, headache, irritability, or even fainting and convulsions, such as sepsis and septicemia, it indicates that there is an internal trap, and should be used in conjunction with a sufficient amount of sensitive antibiotics to fight the infection, and generally choose antibiotics that are sensitive to G+ cocci.  The young mothers now pay more attention to their own bodies and will not let the milk knots develop into this situation, so once you find yourself with milk knots or mastitis, please use antibiotics with caution, please press and rub by yourself or find a family member (the technique must be gentle, if the pain is screaming is definitely not right) or go to the nearby massage department in time. In fact, breastfeeding mastitis should not only be used with caution antibiotics but also with all the bitter and cold products, even if you want to use Chinese medicine, it should be sweet and cold to clear heat as the principle of treatment. The reason for being cautious with the bitter cold products can be broadly categorized as follows: 1. The use of cold medicine will make the breast lumps “want to eliminate not eliminate, want to pus not pus”, and then the formation of stiff lumps into chronic or subacute migratory mastitis, easily resulting in chronic mastitis repeatedly acute attacks. This is also the reason why antibiotic patients are prone to mastitis again, and the reason why the effect of massage treatment for these patients is not as good as for patients without any treatment; 2, the bitter cold products are easy to bitter cold defeat the stomach, the spleen and stomach in the middle jiao, water and grain essence depends on its transmission, is the source of biochemical energy. The spleen and stomach are healthy, the blood is strong, the organs and limbs are all nourished. After the canker sores have been ulcerated, the pus and blood will leak out, and the water and grain must be nourished to help the qi and blood recover and accelerate the healing of the sores; 3. Therefore, early treatment of canker sores should be based on acupressure techniques, and even with Chinese herbal medicine, the use of sweet, cool, heat-clearing or bitter-cold medicines such as honeysuckle, scutellaria, dandelion, etc. should be chosen, and appropriate warming and dispersion products such as deer horn tablets should be added, because qi and blood are condensed when they get cold, but warm when they get warm.  If you have got mastitis during breastfeeding, please choose your treatment carefully, and may you take less detours.