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How Can I Tell If I Have Mastitis?

Hi I am a healthy 26 yr female. I had my daughter a year ago and only breast-fed for 6 weeks before she had to be put on special formula. Yet I am still lactating and its starting to get painful because I can feel the sensation like my milk is "dropping". Im worried something might be wrong with the milk ducts as to the fact when my daughter was 3 weks old I developed severe mastitus. please help.
Thu, 16 Apr 2015
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Hi,
I understood your query.
-Dropping of the milk is a normal thing in lactating mothers. It happens when baby is not fed for a long time, it overflows. It's not a sign of milk duct problem.
- Stagnation of milk in breast may cause little pain.
- mastitis is a condition of swelling, hardness, painful/tender breast- which is many a times following some trauma / hard push to a lactating breast.Many times it is associated with fever.
A healed mastitis is not known to cause defect in milk ducts unless it was treated by incision & drainage.
* I don't know why your baby was put to formula- Enquire it to your doctor.
- If there is possibility that baby will return to breast feeding-
- You have to keep on emptying the breast,
- Maintain breast health & wait for the breast feeding
- But if doctor is advising to keep baby on formula milk ( ? lactose intollerance)-- you should ask medicines to stop the lactation, & get rid of the risk of developing an abscr=ess.
Thanks..
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How Can I Tell If I Have Mastitis?

Hi, I understood your query. -Dropping of the milk is a normal thing in lactating mothers. It happens when baby is not fed for a long time, it overflows. It s not a sign of milk duct problem. - Stagnation of milk in breast may cause little pain. - mastitis is a condition of swelling, hardness, painful/tender breast- which is many a times following some trauma / hard push to a lactating breast.Many times it is associated with fever. A healed mastitis is not known to cause defect in milk ducts unless it was treated by incision & drainage. * I don t know why your baby was put to formula- Enquire it to your doctor. - If there is possibility that baby will return to breast feeding- - You have to keep on emptying the breast, - Maintain breast health & wait for the breast feeding - But if doctor is advising to keep baby on formula milk ( ? lactose intollerance)-- you should ask medicines to stop the lactation, & get rid of the risk of developing an abscr=ess. Thanks..