How to determine if breast milk is festering?

If women do not protect their breasts properly during breastfeeding, they are very likely to develop breast diseases during this period, including suppurative mastitis, which is an inflammation caused by the so-called suppuration of milk. This disease can cause abscesses in the breasts and is accompanied by pain, which can seriously affect breastfed babies. The following will teach you how to judge whether the milk is suppurative.

How to determine if breast milk is festering?

1. Smell the breast milk. Normal breast milk has a milky smell, and some say it has a milky flavor, which varies from person to person. But the festering milk has a slightly foul or rotten smell.

2. Look at the shape of the breast. The root cause of milk suppuration is acute mastitis, which is usually caused by milk accumulation in the breast. It is not discharged in time and becomes cheese-like, blocking the mammary gland. If the breasts become red, swollen and painful and you start to have a fever, then you may have mastitis.

3. Look at the color of breast milk. Normal breast milk is white or off-white. The color of purulent breast milk will change and it will contain some pus.

How to deal with suppuration of breast milk

1. Stop breastfeeding. The suppuration is caused by mastitis. It is best not to feed the baby with milk containing pus.

2. Hot compress and massage. Hot compress and massage are mainly used to relieve milk congestion, dissipate lumps, and relieve symptoms of breast inflammation.

3. In severe cases, surgery and drainage are required. Acute mastitis can cause a high fever, which requires medication or intravenous infusion to reduce the fever. However, blocked breast glands can only be drained through surgery to promote the discharge of milk and lumps.

Every mother hopes that her breast milk can feed her baby well and provide adequate nutrition, but her own health cannot be neglected either. If postpartum care is neglected, resulting in breast blockage and inflammation, you will not be able to take good care of the baby while suffering from the illness. Breasts are not only a symbol of femininity, but also an important part of the body. We should take good care of them.

The main symptoms are enlargement of one breast, local lumps, redness of the skin, tenderness or throbbing pain. In daily life, do not eat spicy and irritating food, eat more light and easily digestible food, avoid accumulation of damp heat, apply hot compresses locally, and drink (Suicao Ji Ru Kang Tea), two cups each morning and evening, and start brewing with it. It can make the breasts soft, disperse blood stasis and relieve pain.