Symptoms and prevention of mastitis during breastfeeding



Symptoms of mastitis during lactation include breast swelling, hardness, and increased skin temperature. To prevent this disease, you need to strengthen the resistance, avoid milk stagnation and keep clean.

1. Symptoms: In the early stages of the disease, there are symptoms of breast swelling and pain, increased skin temperature, accompanied by pressure pain. If in the inflammation development stage, there will be obvious hard nodules, chest skin will appear red, swelling, heat, pain and other manifestations, some patients may be accompanied by fatigue, high fever, headache, weakness and other systemic symptoms.

With the further development of the disease, abscesses may form in the chest and break out easily.

2. Prevention: If you need to prevent breastfeeding mastitis, you need to strengthen your resistance, exercise properly, and ensure a balanced intake of nutrients. At the same time, you need to avoid milk stagnation, each time you can use an inhaler to drain the milk, you also need to pay attention to keep the breast clean, after breastfeeding need to wash the nipple.

If you are breastfeeding and experience any of the above symptoms, you need to be on the alert for mastitis and go to the hospital promptly. In general, it is necessary to strengthen the health education of this disease, and early prevention.