What are the symptoms of mastitis? Understanding is for better prevention

In recent years, more and more women have suffered from breast diseases. This disease not only brings a lot of discomfort to women, but also causes great psychological pressure on them. Therefore, it is very important to understand the relevant symptoms of mastitis and prevent and treat them. So what are the specific symptoms of mastitis?

1. Acute simple mastitis

In the early stages of simple acute mastitis, there is breast pain, high local skin temperature, tenderness, unclear nodule boundaries, and tenderness.

2. Acute suppurative mastitis

In acute suppurative mastitis, the local skin becomes red, swollen, hot and painful, with obvious nodules and more tenderness. At the same time, the patient may experience chills, high fever, headache, weakness, rapid pulse and other general weakness. At this time, swollen lymph nodes may appear in the armpits, which are tender and the white blood cell count in blood tests may be elevated. In severe cases, sepsis may occur.

3. Ineffective treatment measures

Abscess formation occurs due to ineffective treatment measures or further aggravation of the disease, local tissue necrosis and liquefaction, and infection foci of varying sizes merge together to form an abscess. Abscesses may be unilocular or multilocular. Superficial abscesses are easy to detect, while deeper abscesses are less noticeable and difficult to detect.

If the patient with mastitis has obvious systemic symptoms and local and systemic drug treatments are not effective, it is important to puncture the painful area and wait for pus to be extracted or white blood cells to be found in the smear to confirm the diagnosis of abscess.

4. Breast pain

Breast pain accompanied by tenderness are manifestations of breast inflammation, which are more common in acute mastitis and breast abscess. If there is local pain in the breast, it should be related to the menstrual cycle, which is generally more common in simple and cystic hyperplasia of the breast.

5. Breast lumps

Breast lumps are the main symptom of breast tumors. Breast lumps are also seen in breast tuberculosis, breast hyperplasia, etc.