What to do if breast ducts are blocked

You can try applying a hot towel around your breasts for a few minutes to promote blood circulation around your breasts. It is important to drain the breast milk out of the body in time, otherwise it may turn into a cyst. Every time you feed your baby, make sure to let him finish sucking to prevent nipple infection. Even if the baby has not finished washing, the remaining milk must be discharged manually. It must not be retained, otherwise the consequences will be immeasurable.

Breast lumps caused by milk stasis are due to mammary lymph retention, venous congestion, interstitial edema and obstructed mammary ducts. It is caused by poor milk discharge from one gland lobe, resulting in milk accumulation in the breast. It is very common during lactation. Milk stasis is also one of the initial symptoms of acute mastitis during lactation.

Therefore, we must actively deal with it. Milk stasis not only easily leads to breast lumps, but also is often accompanied by pain. Long-term milk stasis can easily block the mammary ducts, leading to poor milk discharge and the formation of breast cysts.

Treatment method: After feeding the baby, you need to squeeze out the remaining milk, massage the breasts more often, and use a warm towel for hot compresses. During the treatment process, special attention should be paid to cleanliness to avoid infection, high fever, and worsening of mastitis.

Immediately perform manual milk expression, and invite an experienced confinement nanny or doctor to do it. Squeeze and comb from the periphery to the center. The most important thing is to pull the nipple up and down, stimulate the nipple, create negative pressure, and actually simulate the child's sucking. Non-professionals may not be able to do it well.

1. Allow your baby to finish breastfeeding each time. If the baby does not finish breastfeeding, you can massage with your hands or use a breast pump to squeeze out the remaining milk. If the milk ducts are blocked during breastfeeding, try not to let the baby sleep with the nipple in the mouth, as this may cause the baby to cut and bite the nipple and induce infection. The amount of milk is controlled by endocrine hormones and also depends on the development of the breast tissue itself, which are all congenital conditions.

2. To maintain sufficient milk supply, mothers must also pay attention to getting enough sleep and rest during the lactation period, getting more sun exposure, breathing more fresh air, having a regular daily routine and diet, and not being too nervous about their life rhythm.

3. Develop the habit of regular breastfeeding.

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