Evolution of the symptoms of acute mastitis

The occurrence of acute mastitis: acute mastitis is an acute purulent breast disease, more common in the early breast-feeding mothers.
Etiology is:
First, the occurrence of mastitis milk is the basis of deposition. To improper feeding, poor feeding, breast duct blockage milk most likely to occur under silt and become a hotbed of bacteria;
Second, retrograde bacterial infection, rupture of the nipple, or nipple deformity nipple trauma cases, the bacteria can be retrograde from the nipple into the breast and spread to the mammary gland substance.
Early: patients with acute mastitis in the beginning of breast fullness, pain, breastfeeding and even more poor milk secretion, breast lump with or without the skin reddish or red, or with general malaise, poor appetite, chest tightness irritability and so on.
Suppuration of: local breast hardening, the mass increases, this time may be associated with high fever, chills, general weakness, dry stools, pulse accelerated, ipsilateral lymph nodes, increased white blood cells, often abscess formation in 4-5 days, can be appear breast rebound tenderness, swelling and local skin translucent, soft mass in the central, according to the a sense of volatility, if the breast deep abscess, there may be swelling of the whole breast, pain, high fever, but local skin irritation and volatility is not obvious, and sometimes a breast There can be several simultaneously or successively abscess.
Late collapse: superficial abscess can often pierced the skin, formation of mouth ulcers or overflow of milk to form own milk leakage. Ministry of deep abscesses, can be worn between the breast and pectoralis major fatty, the formation of posterior breast abscesses, severe sepsis can occur.

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