Sore breasts: 5 ways to help emergency nursing mother

Many women have the entire period of the natural feeding I feel fine. But sometimes it happens that suddenly my mother aching breasts or sore nipples. Inexperienced woman can get confused, especially since it just falls shaft conflicting recommendations of relatives, friends, health workers and neighbors.

Some say that it is necessary to apply the most crumbs to the breast, the other - on the contrary, that it is necessary to take time off to breastfeed. My mother's head is spinning from these tips. How can understand the causes of pain and quickly get rid of it?

5 Reasons of chest pain and how to help mom

1. If sick chest, and the temperature is kept at least 2 days, It is usually medical attention is required. The main thing with this - do not crush his chest and continue to feed your baby breast milk. You can contact the consultant on breastfeeding for more comprehensive recommendations or bring it to the house for a soft rastsezhivaniya. In most cases, lactostasis (stagnation) and mastitis (breast inflammation) are not caused by the fact that you chilled breasts and applying a shallow, awkward posture during feeding, improper technique sucking. by GW Consultant will correct those moments.

2. If nipples hurt badly at the moment, when you just put the baby to the breast, and while sucking the pain subsides, it is a sign of a shallow applying to the breast and / or uncomfortable position during feeding and / or improper sucking art. The kid is lazy suck. There are other reasons, for example, short frenulum under the tongue kid, neurology. If there are no cracks or they were less than 7-10 days ago, and the pain in the nipples (strong burning, stabbing pain) between feedings is missing, the reason to go to the doctor there. It should be in the coming days to see a specialist for GW to identify and eliminate the cause of sore nipples.

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3. If, in addition to pain when feeding, nipples began to whine and after feeding (Backache from the nipple to the breast) and / or cracks have appeared more than 7-10 days ago, this is usually the signs of nipple infection.
You need to see a gynecologist, who has experience in the treatment of the nipples. He will appoint the treatment of the infection. But this doctor does not correct the defects of breastfeeding, so the parallel is necessary to address and a consultant on breastfeeding.

4. If the results of ultrasound will be revealed abscess (Appearance in the breast cavity with pus), the need to consult the surgeon. Of all the stagnation of Statistics only 2-5% become the abscess. Autopsy abscess is usually performed on an outpatient basis (in the clinic), and then you need a few days will be like dressings. With local anesthesia syringe is sucked pus, an incision is made in the chest about 5 mm long and placed drainage tube. If the bandage away from the nipple, the breast-feeding does not stop. If the close, from this chest a few days need to express milk. Sutures are not applied, then place the notch itself is tightened almost imperceptibly.

5. If chest pain, and the temperature is kept for more than 2 days, then you need to apply to the competent gynecologist for a prescription of antibiotics compatible with breastfeeding. Before taking a doctor is better to make breast ultrasound, and ask that you were given ultrasound protocol and picture. on the sonogram technician makes the description of the painful place, its size, but the exact diagnosis is made it is a gynecologist, based on the description of the ultrasound, the symptoms, the time of disease, inspection and palpation.
Medications - this additional treatment, that there were no complications, but does not contribute to antibiotic resorption stagnation. The main measure - is the improvement of milk outflow from the chest (soft rastsezhivanie, deep breastfeeding and frequent feeding), so in parallel, refer to the HS consultant.

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Emergency assistance for acute chest pain

• Call an ambulance or not? This solves the nursing mother. Sometimes such calls "fast" does not arrive, you will be advised strongly to massage the breast, or to go to a surgeon. Sometimes doctors come to make a shot with dipyrone dimedrolom or bruising chest massage (which is undesirable) and sent to the surgeon.
• Whom should I contact? Mammolog doctor has been treating breast tumors, not stasis and mastitis. It is better to refer to the HS consultant.

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Why can not crush the chest and rastsezhivatsya through pain

1. The mammary gland is very delicate, and it is very easy to injure.
2. If you squeezes the chest, it increases the swelling of tissues and milk is worse then coming from his chest.
3. When severe pain produced little of the hormone oxytocin, while decanting milk outflow from the breast is very bad.
4. There may be a risk that the stagnation of milk will become a place of suppuration (abscess).
5. Some moms after such a painful shock (fear of repeating the procedure) throw breastfeed at all.

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