The symptoms and treatment of mastitis

Generally, mastitis develops in only one breast during the first three months after birth. He can suddenly appear at any time or during feeding baby Breastfeeding - a personal choice . The most common symptoms of mastitis:

• Increasing the temperature and sensitivity of the breast
• The feeling of nausea Nausea - there may be problems with the nervous system   and feelings of depression
• The increase in breast size
• Burning and pain when feeding
• Redness of the skin
• The sharp increase in body temperature
• Aching and symptoms of the flu

Causes of mastitis

A bacterial infection that enters the breast through a crack or hole in the nipple milk ducts in the nipple.

Bacteria appear on the skin of the breast while feeding the baby, the risk of penetration into the mammary gland increases when the baby crouches to the chest.

This increase in the number of bacteria leads to inflammation of the mammary gland Inflammation of breast cancer: what is more dangerous - acute or chronic? .

Treatment of mastitis

Mastitis is usually treatable by simple methods. For treatment of mastitis, the following techniques:

• Antibiotics prescribed for at least two weeks, but medication should not be stopped, even if the symptoms go away.
• Warm compresses reduces the appearance of mastitis and bring temporary relief.
• Heavy drinking also helps in the treatment of mastitis.
• Breastfeeding should not be in any case to stop, even if the symptoms are particularly hard hit.
• Generally, mastitis disappear after application of these techniques. If, in rare cases, this treatment is not effective, it is necessary to consult a doctor to make a diagnosis and to determine the malignancy of the seal.
• To reduce pain and swelling, impose a warm compress on the chest. It may also help warm shower immediately before feeding.
• Bags of ice also reduce discomfort and swelling.

Prevention of mastitis

To some extent, help prevent mastitis following steps:

• Express all the milk remaining after feeding.
• To completely empty one breast before giving a child another.
• If the child suck the milk of one breast, the next feeding, start with the breast milk which is left untouched last time.
• Change your position at each feeding.
• Do not make the chest to the nipple and do not let the kid just suck it without sucking milk.

Conservative treatment of mastitis

Breast disease - is a disease that is very common and does not always require treatment. But women with mastopathy, must observe a breast surgeon, as the breast can turn into a form that requires conservative or surgical treatment.

Modern ideas of mastitis

Breast develops in the mammary glands of a woman under the influence of hormonal disorders Hormonal disorders - oversupply and a lack of equally dangerous . Basically it is the increased secretion of female sex hormones estrogen and pituitary hormone prolactin, and reduced secretion of the hormone of the second half of the menstrual cycle - progesterone. This leads to the fact that in the breast tissue grows, mainly the connective tissue, which in the form of a fine mesh permeates the mammary gland, and formed cysts. In addition, the breast is exposed to cyclical changes associated with the menstrual cycle in the second half of the menstrual cycle, it swells, causing pain. The pains come from minor to severe, causing a woman to see a doctor.

There are two types of breast disease (many researchers believe that the two phases of a single process) - diffuse (the process is more - less evenly distributed on both breasts) and node (against the background of diffuse changes in the mammary glands are formed by one or more nodes). Nodal mastopathy is dangerous because the nodes often develop a process that is regarded as a precancerous condition.

Conservative treatment

Diffuse breast Breast - the mirror Women's Health   not always be treated. In some cases, the woman simply observe and periodically examined. Treatment is mainly indicated for major complaints: severe pain in the breast or discharge from the nipple. It should be comprehensive, long-term, take account of hormonal disorders, metabolic disorders and various comorbidities.

All women with mastopathy, explain the basics of good nutrition Proper nutrition - the basic precepts of healthy food Which allows you to restore normal hormonal balance. It is recommended not to eat fatty meat (it helps to stimulate the formation of estrogen), the amount of meat is generally better to reduce it and use only boiled or steamed. Do not eat smoked, salted and canned products. Eat more vegetables, fruits and cereals.

In order to identify the cause of the disease and to eliminate its first full inspection is carried out by women. Be particularly careful to try to identify inflammatory processes of female genital mutilation and neuroses - they are the basis of the majority of diffuse mastopathy. Detection of the disease being treated well, and this often prevents the further development of mastitis.

At the beginning of the disease, when the pain in the breast only appeared after a preliminary examination, and further diagnosis is often recommended to the woman to have a baby, and as long as possible to breastfeed. At the same time the state of the mammary glands carefully watched.

Drug therapy is aimed at the normalization of the liver (which is degraded in the liver, estrogens, which are often the cause of mastitis). For this purpose, introduce various drugs that restore its function (CARS essentiale, vitamins) as well as contributing to the normalization of the biliary tract.

If a woman in the second half of the menstrual cycle in the blood revealed insufficient contents of the female sex hormone progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology Then it is prescribed prolonged use of 0, 25% potassium iodide solution.

To suppress the function of another hormone, "guilty" in the formation of mastitis - prolactin prescribe homeopathic herbal drug - mastodinon. This drug also has beneficial effects on the function of the ovaries.

The positive effect has the introduction of the mammary gland and Novocaine oxygen. Novocaine painkillers and oxygen, moving in the breast tissue, as if massaging her inside.

Hormone therapy mastitis conducted in accordance with the revealed hormonal disorders. When the content in the blood of a large number of estrogen are assigned male sex hormones, which suppress the activity of estrogen in the blood if a lot of prolactin, bromocriptine is prescribed. With a lack of progesterone in the second half of the menstrual cycle (it inhibits the proliferation - overgrowth of tissue in the breast) is assigned its synthetic counterparts. In recent years, in order to correct hormonal gynecologists commonly prescribed hormonal contraceptives.

Surgical treatment of mastitis

Surgical treatment is carried out at a nodal mastopathy. But as an independent nodular form is rare (it is usually combined with diffuse mastopathy), the operation is usually performed with conservative therapy.

During the operation unit is removed together with the portion of the breast. This is called a sectoral resection of breast cancer. Removing the unit does not relieve a woman from diffuse mastopathy, which continue to be treated with conservative methods.