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How to treat breast abscess during lactation? Whether you are a man or a woman, please save this for her or yourself, it may be helpful to you in the future.

The following conditions may cause breast abscesses:

1. Some mothers have had mastitis before, or the mastitis was not treated in time. The inflammation continues to occur, causing pus accumulation, breast swelling, and abscess formation.

2. Some mothers who have mastitis do not follow the doctor's instructions to take antibiotics, or they choose the wrong antibiotics and the course of treatment is not long enough. Some mothers think that antibiotics are harmful to the body, so they shorten the course of treatment or reduce the dosage at will, causing the condition to worsen and abscesses to form. Some mothers also fail to achieve the treatment effect because they are resistant to the antibiotics they use.

3. The affected breast is not emptied, or the mother avoids breastfeeding on the affected breast, causing milk stasis and worsening the condition. Some mothers also suffer from breast abscesses due to sudden weaning.

How to Minimize Breast Abscesses

1. Seek medical treatment immediately after breast inflammation occurs. Once a breast infection occurs, it must be treated quickly and breastfeed frequently. If breastfeeding is not possible, hand-express or use a breast pump to extract milk from the affected side.

2. When your mother is sick, do not use antibiotics casually to avoid developing drug resistance.

3. When breastfeeding, pay attention to the baby's latch, try to effectively drain the milk in the breast, and try to avoid milk stasis. If it occurs, it should be drained in time. If the mother wants to wean, it is best to plan in advance and try to wean gradually rather than suddenly.

There are several ways to drain pus:

Surgical drainage. In the past, the most commonly used method was surgical drainage. This method causes large wounds, and the mother is usually in pain and has difficulty continuing to breastfeed. However, some abscesses are more serious and require surgical drainage.

Needle extraction, or ultrasound-guided puncture. Now more and more doctors are considering using a needle to extract pus or using ultrasound-guided puncture to extract pus. This not only has a smaller wound than traditional surgical drainage, but also has a higher success rate and less pain for the mother. During the treatment process, the mother can continue to breastfeed to avoid the situation becoming so serious that drainage is required.

Unless the surgery affects the baby's ability to latch on properly, the baby's ability to breastfeed will not be affected. If this does affect the latch, the mother will have to express the milk by hand or use a breast pump.

Weaning or restricting breastfeeding after an abscess has developed may prevent rapid resolution of the abscess by causing more mucus to be produced, making the breast swelling worse.

However, the concentration of proteins, sugars and electrolytes in the milk of the affected breast may change. In particular, the lactose level decreases and the concentration of chloride and sodium increases, which can cause the milk to taste salty temporarily. Some babies may refuse to breastfeed because of the change in the taste of the milk. If the baby is unwilling to feed on this side of the breast no matter what, the mother should try to express or pump out the milk on the affected side while breastfeeding on the other side.

The reduced lactose level in the affected breast milk may cause a decrease in milk production. Mothers should not panic too much, as the condition of breast abscess may recover after it improves.