What should I pay attention to if I have mastitis?

I believe everyone has heard of the disease called mastitis. Symptoms of mastitis include headaches, fear of cold, and lack of strength to climb stairs. Friends who suffer from mastitis should not eat foods such as carp, crucian carp, eel, shrimp, and hairtail, as eating them will aggravate the condition. Also, you cannot eat spicy, greasy, or acidic foods. Below are some precautions for mastitis that the editor has collected. Let’s take a look.

1. Pay attention to cleaning

Pay attention to rest in the early stage, stop breastfeeding, clean the nipples and areola, and promote milk discharge (using a breast pump or sucking). Those who need incision and drainage should stop breastfeeding. This is the first prerequisite for treating mastitis.

2. Use milk-reducing drugs

Stop breastfeeding on the affected side and use a breast pump to express the milk. Appropriate lactation drugs can be used, such as oral administration of 1 mg of ethinyl estradiol 3 times a day, or 2.5 mg of bromocriptine 3 times a day.

3. Systemic antibiotics

To prevent and treat severe infection and sepsis, antibiotics are selected based on bacterial culture and drug sensitivity, and intravenous antibiotics are given when necessary.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment

Heat-clearing and detoxifying agents are used to treat early mastitis. The main symptoms in the initial stage are milk stasis and internal accumulation of heat and toxicity. The treatment principles are detoxification, heat-clearing, lactation and swelling reduction.

Oral medication: You can take Trichosanthes and Burdock Soup (9g each of cooked burdock, raw gardenia, honeysuckle, forsythia, 12g each of whole kudzu vine (crushed) and dandelion, 4.5g each of tangerine peel and tangerine leaves, 6g of bupleurum, and 9g of Scutellaria. Decoction in water, one dose per day). For swelling and pain, add frankincense, myrrh, and red peony root.

5. Heat

Apply local hot compress, or wash 60 grams each of fresh dandelion and honeysuckle leaves, add a little vinegar or wine, and mash them for external application. Support your breasts with wide bands or a bra.

The above are some precautions for mastitis that the editor has collected. I believe everyone should know that there are many diseases, not just mastitis, which are not isolated diseases and can cause other symptoms. Especially some diseases caused by some bad living habits of patients. We must develop good habits so that diseases will not easily find us.