Postpartum breast disease of see the trick to dismantle the trick
Postpartum Lactation.
When breastfeeding your baby, if you feel that your breasts are not swollen, your milk is scarce or absent, or if your breastfeeding was once normal and later your milk decreases, then you are likely to suffer from postpartum lack of milk. At this time, your breasts may not feel any discomfort, but may also feel swollen and painful, or be accompanied by breast lumps.
1, found less milk, must be treated early, generally within half a month after delivery treatment effect is better.
2, maintain an optimistic, relaxed mood, regular life, sleep enough.
3.Strengthen nutrition and avoid excessive greasiness.
4. Develop good breastfeeding habits, feed your baby as early as possible, breastfeed regularly, and suck one breast before sucking the other. If the breast is not sucked, or if you still feel breast swelling and pain after breastfeeding, you should squeeze out the excess milk or suck it out with a breast pump.
Usually, simple medication is only the basis, and a relaxed mood, increased nutrition and reasonable breastfeeding methods can often make the treatment of postpartum breast deficiency twice as successful.
Postpartum milk out: When not breastfeeding, milk flows out naturally and the amount of milk is often not enough to feed the baby because it is too small, called postpartum milk spontaneous out. Most patients have no breast discomfort, a few may have a feeling of swelling and pain, and the milk drips down from one or both nipples and soaks the clothes.
1, before and after the birth of the baby are appropriate to strengthen nutrition, pay attention to rest, reasonable arrangements for diet.
2, emotional stability, optimism and cheerfulness, avoid quarrels, anger, etc..
The occurrence of breast milk from out, to actively treat, at the same time diligently change clothes, can be in the bra pad small towel or gauze, timely replacement, keep the nipple, areola dry and clean, to avoid milk impregnation skin, eczema or inflammation.
Broken nipples: Most of the nipples and the neck of the breast are broken, but they can also extend to the areola. The nipple can be softened by the milk and cause pus-like white ulcers and flushed erosions, making it painful and cut like a knife when the mother is breastfeeding. Sometimes the fissure is deep enough to cause bleeding, or the discharge from the fissure may dry up and crust over, causing dryness and pain. Due to the broken nipples, or because of the pain, the mother is reluctant to breastfeed her baby, or the milk is not squeezed clean when milking, which can easily cause local inflammation, or even acute mastitis, and can also cause diarrhea or pseudo black stools in babies.
1, after the nipple is broken, the first thing you should do is to stop the baby from sucking directly, so as not to cause a prolonged or even aggravated condition, resulting in infant diarrhea or pseudo-black stool.
2.For mothers with mild symptoms, you can apply the medicine after breastfeeding, swab it off before breastfeeding, and suck out the milk with an inhaler for feeding.
3.But if yellow pus is seen in the milk, it is not advisable to feed the baby. Take care of yourself in order to take better care of your baby. Likewise, take good care of your own breasts in order to ensure normal milk secretion and feed your baby to be fat and white. So, please make sure the mother-to-be pays attention to the following!
Stage 1: Pregnancy
1, the adjustment of the state of life before the birth of the baby, the mood should be relaxed, to ensure that more than 8 hours of sleep every day, do not over-stressed and tired. Reasonable diet, meat and vegetables, there should be 2-3 snacks between the three meals. Scientific supplementation of adequate protein, vitamins and trace elements.
2, the state of the breast preparation after pregnancy, the breasts tend to have a great change. As the nipple, mammary glands fully developed, early pregnancy will feel breast swelling or pain, late squeeze the breast when there is thin yellow liquid overflow, these are normal physiological phenomena, there is no need to overstress. The first time a mother, the nipple skin is more delicate, after pregnancy should be scrubbed daily with warm water nipples, or once a week with 75% ethanol scrubbing, to prevent the occurrence of nipple cracking after childbirth.
If the congenital nipple is sunken, you can use your fingers to gently pull the nipple outward every day in early pregnancy, while massaging the nipple and areola to promote the development of the smooth muscle of the nipple, which can prevent the newborn from sucking difficulties when sucking the breast. As your breasts increase in size, you should wear a suitable bra to support your breasts and prevent them from being traumatized or squeezed.
Stage 2: Breastfeeding
1, breastfeeding, the benefits of many, the mother should try to take breastfeeding. Mothers who adopt breastfeeding can reduce the risk of breast cancer. You can start breastfeeding 1-3 days after delivery. Wash your hands with warm water and scrub your nipples and areolas before breastfeeding. Generally, breastfeed once every 3-4 hours for 15 minutes, alternating breastfeeding between the two breasts, and try to suck up as much milk as possible. If the nipple and areola are broken, or if there is an infection around the baby’s mouth and lips, they should be treated promptly to prevent bacterial invasion and maternal acute mastitis.
2, breast state care breastfeeding women should prevent breast sagging, not breastfeeding should wear a bra, more loose is appropriate, but not too loose, preferably the front button, in order to facilitate breastfeeding to the baby.
3, avoid exposure to harmful substances breastfeeding women to avoid exposure to benzene, lead, organophosphorus and other harmful substances and X-rays, careful use or do not use tetracycline, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, sleeping pills and hormonal drugs, so as not to cause harm to the baby. Pay attention to various health products and tonic products in the market, especially those containing a certain amount of hormone ingredients (such as royal jelly), which may have adverse effects on the normal growth and development of children.
Stage 3: Weaning period
Breastfeeding has many advantages, but generally breastfeeding for no more than 1 year, with 6-12 months being appropriate. Breastfeeding for more than one year will not only fail to meet the physiological needs of the baby in terms of breast milk nutrients, but will also lead to excessive atrophy of the mother’s mammary glands and other genitalia. When weaning, the mother should enter less food containing soup so that the milk will gradually decrease and wean. If there is still more milk, take a decoction of 30 grams of raw Chinese hawthorn and 30 grams of raw malt, or crush 250 grams of skin nit, wrap it in a cloth bag and put it on the breast.
Be alert to acute mastitis.
Acute mastitis is one of the most common breast diseases that mothers who give birth for the first time can contract. It is a purulent infection of the breast caused by the invasion of bacteria into the breast.
Causes of acute mastitis.
The causes of acute mastitis, in addition to congenital causes such as nipple depression and inaccessible milk ducts, are improper breastfeeding methods are the main cause of acute mastitis. The first time you have a baby, the baby sleeps with the milk, or sucks and chews the nipple causing the nipple to break, or the mother is weaned improperly, resulting in the milk can not be emptied and depressed, creating conditions for the reproduction of bacteria, easily triggering secondary infection. Secondly, the first baby mother is more nervous, or too much postpartum consumption of high-protein, high-fat food, so that the milk is too thick, can affect the secretion of milk, inducing acute mastitis. In addition, the woman’s ability to fight infection after giving birth is reduced, and if she suffers from upper respiratory tract infection, acute tonsillitis and other diseases, viruses and bacteria from the respiratory tract circulate to the breast through the bloodstream, which can also cause the occurrence of acute mastitis.
Symptoms of acute mastitis.
If you are infected with acute mastitis, you will first experience breast swelling, pain, lumpiness, skin that is not red or slightly red, poor milk secretion, and generalized discomfort that may not be felt. If you take timely treatment measures to clear the blocked milk ducts, suck out the accumulated milk and eliminate the local pain and lumps, you will be cured. If the treatment is not timely, the lump will not disappear, the pain will increase, the skin will become red, there will be a burning sensation, and there will be fear of cold and fever. As the lump on the affected side of the breast increases in size, the skin becomes more red and swollen, and the pain becomes severe, even with a chicken-peck-like throbbing pain.
Patients with acute mastitis usually have a tendency to become septic by about the 10th day, with the following manifestations.
1. The central part of the breast lump gradually becomes softer.
2. The patient’s entire breast is significantly larger than the non-diseased breast, with slightly red or non-red skin color, significant pressure pain, and prominent nipples.
3. Sometimes the patient unintentionally finds yellow thick pus mixed with milk when sucking or milking, which overflows from the nipple.
When an acute abscess is formed, it can break down on its own, or the doctor can perform a surgical incision to drain the pus. If the pus comes out freely, the sore usually heals gradually in 10-15 days. If the local swelling does not subside, the pain does not decrease, and the fever does not subside after breaking, it may be that the pus site is deep and the broken sore is only a superficial abscess or there are multiple abscesses.
Treatment of acute mastitis.
Some patients, in the process of suppuration of the breast, due to the simple application of a large number of antibiotics, the lumps that have formed become stiff, the skin color changes to dark red or light brown, no lumps are not easy to dissipate, has changed from acute inflammation of to chronic stiffness, often delayed and difficult to heal. The key is early detection and early treatment. Once suppuration occurs, it should be treated promptly and accurately. For patients in the early stages of acute mastitis, as long as they are treated with Chinese herbal medicine, they can generally be cured by taking one or two Chinese herbal medicines; in the middle of the infection is serious, local and systemic symptoms are obvious, treatment should be based on Chinese medicine, supplemented by Western medicine.