Mastitis
Mastitis: Introduction
Mastitis is a breast infection or inflammation that mostly occurs in breast-feeding mothers.
The typical presentation is a young lactating women with mastitis symptoms such as fever, flu-like symptoms,
and breast tenderness and/or breast redness.
In such cases, mastitis often progresses rapidly over hours, and it is common
for breast-feeding mothers to try to fight off the fever (which may precede
any breast redness), and the fever then rapidly progresses
to more severe symptoms such as high fever, chills, nausea, and so on.
Early treatment of mastitis is desirable for practical comfort in treatment of fever,
and avoidance of the complications of mastitis.
Symptoms of Mastitis
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- Breast pain
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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Causes of Mastitis
- Blocked breast ducts
- Cracked nipples
- Breast milk oversupply
- Breast bacterial infection
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Prevention of Mastitis
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and may be inaccurate or incomplete.
None of these methods guarantee prevention of Mastitis.
- Breast hygiene
- Massaging breast lumps - during breastfeeding
- Massaging blocked breast ducts
- Avoiding cracked nipples
- Treating cracked nipples
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Definitions of Mastitis:
INFLAMMATION of the BREAST, or MAMMARY GLAND.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Inflammation of a breast (or udder)
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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