What harm can mastitis cause?

Mastitis refers to acute purulent infection of breast, which is more common in female lactation, especially primipara. Mastitis is harmful. In addition to breast pain, mastitis will also form a breast abscess if it is not treated in time, which will lead to nipple rupture, high fever and chills, seriously affecting the health of women's breasts, endangering their health and causing great psychological pressure to female friends. Female friends must be taken seriously. Next, specifically 1, systemic symptoms: patients with severe mastitis may be accompanied by high fever, chills, obvious breast swelling and pain, local skin swelling, induration and tenderness, and axillary lymph node swelling and tenderness on the affected side. The inflammation softens within a few days, forming a breast abscess. After the abscess is ruptured, the pus is drained smoothly, which can reduce swelling and relieve pain. Acute mastitis is often accompanied by axillary lymph node enlargement, tenderness and other symptoms, which causes great mental distress to female friends. 2. Pulsating pain: Mastitis is mostly in lactation at the initial stage. At first, the breast was swollen, painful, tender, swollen and feverish. If it continues to develop, the symptoms will get worse. Breast is an acute purulent infection. At first, the symptoms were swelling, pain, tenderness and so on. At the same time, the nipple appears red and swollen and fever. If not treated in time, the condition will get worse, breast pain will get worse, and even pulsatile pain will appear. 3, breast lesions: mastitis if not treated in time or improper treatment, it will cause very serious harm. Breast abscess can break through the loose connective tissue in front of the fascia of pectoralis major, forming a retromammary abscess, or the milk overflows from the self-created mouth to form milk leakage, and even septicemia occurs, endangering the life and health of patients. Therefore, female friends must pay attention to it and choose a regular professional hospital for examination and treatment in time. Mastitis is a great threat to the breast health of female friends, so female friends should pay enough attention to it and actively do corresponding preventive work in daily life to avoid its occurrence. So, how to prevent mastitis? 1, prevent nipple rupture: nipple rupture is not only easy for milk deposition, but also may cause bacterial infection due to wounds. After 6 months of pregnancy, women can scrub their nipples with a towel dipped in water every day; Don't let your baby get into the habit of sleeping with nipples during lactation. 2, to prevent milk deposition: breastfeeding as soon as possible after delivery; Hot compress the breast before breastfeeding to promote smooth breast milk. If the pregnant woman feels breast pain, she should apply hot compress in time. Press the breast by hand after hot compress to promote nipple; Pay attention to cleaning nipples and remove dirt from breast nipples. 3, actively treat nipple rupture to prevent complications: mild nipple rupture can still breastfeed, but it should be protected. Severe nipple rupture, severe pain during breastfeeding, indirect breastfeeding with nipple cover, or breastfeeding with bottle after sucking out with breast pump, etc. 4, should often do self-massage: pregnant women should develop the habit of self-massage breast. . If the breast feels pain, or there is a lump on the breast, the manipulation can be heavier. At the same time of self-massage, you can squeeze the breast a little and squeeze the milk out of the nipple. After repeated several times, the mammary duct will be unobstructed. 5, eat less irritating food: female friends should eat less irritating food such as onions, ginger, garlic and so on. Chinese medicine believes that acute mastitis is caused by accumulated heat and toxic heat. Therefore, eat less hot food in the diet, so as not to help the fire and get sore. Experts remind that if mastitis is not treated in time, it will seriously endanger the breast health of female friends and bring great psychological harm. Female friends should not be underestimated, and they should actively do preventive work to avoid mastitis. Once you get sick, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.