Symptoms of acute mastitis

Suppurative mastitis refers to the breast caused by bacterial invasion of acute and chronic mastitis, breast abscess.
Acute mastitis is most common in lactating women, mainly milk ducts are not smooth, so that the milk deposit, secondary bacterial infection, acute inflammation of the treatment of mastitis is more critical stage, appropriate treatment, can absorb and heal inflammation, or will form abscesses, the disease to be completely cured if you do not, breast-feeding will be a recurring problem, even after the formation of necrotic lesions within the breast, leading to cancer. The incidence of acute mastitis has three stages and at different stages of the performance of different treatment methods are not the same, therefore, should understand the pathogenesis of all stages.
1, early stage
Often since the beginning of nipple, breastfeeding nipple tingling sensation, accompanied by poor or caking of milk stasis, and sometimes there are one or two of duct obstruction unreasonable. Followed by local swelling breast pain, lumps or without, accompanied by tenderness, skin color is not red or reddish skin without heat or fever. Obvious systemic symptoms or fever accompanied by chills, chest tightness, headache, irritability, easy temper, loss of appetite.
2, into the pus stage
Needless suffering from breast tumor or increased, increased local pain, or pulsating pain, even persistent severe pain, with marked tenderness, skin color, red, hot skin, and strong heat to subside and think drinking thirst , nausea, anorexia, tenderness ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes. Painful swelling of the breast to the first 10 days, the central breast lumps gradually softened by the volatility should mean there is a sense of local diffuse swelling, fever, tenderness apparent aspiration with pus, pus and sometimes awakened in the outflow from the milk, symptoms worse.
3, after the stage collapse
When the acute abscess mature, self-rupture the pus, or surgical incision. If the pus out of smooth, the local swelling and eliminate pain reduction, fever, cold symptoms, sores gradually healed. After the collapse of the poor if the pus, swelling potential Needless, pain diminished, the body heat to subside and may form bags of pus, or pus spread to other milk, milk carbuncle capsule transmission network formation. After the collapse of milk from the sore also overflows and permanently, the formation of milk leakage.

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