Common breast issues symptoms are swelling, hurting, and lumps as well as mastitis.
Follow the doctor’s advice because it is a sensitive issue that can result in breast milk insufficiency and also the baby’s poor weight gain.
Use appropriate positioning and increase the frequency of breastfeeding if you find swelling or lumps. Moreover, express breast milk between and after feeding to take care of lumps or swelling. Expressing the breast also helps with burning because of lumps. If left untreated, lumps have the potential to become mastitis in the mammary gland. A big warning of mastitis is the baby not wanting breast milk anymore.
Mastitis is a breast disease that causes fever, pain chills, flu, and engorgement in addition to other systematic symptoms.
Mastitis can happen anytime during the breastfeeding period but it is most common 2 to 3 weeks postpartum.
There are two primary types of mastitis, one is with bacterial infection and the other is without it.
This type of mastitis doesn’t cause bacterial infection but brings breast inflammation. It also causes engorgement, lumps, redness, burning in breasts, and also fever. You should make sure to position appropriately while breastfeeding if you have these symptoms and try to cope with the breast milk disruption.
If the symptoms like fever, flu, chills and body pain don’t improve even 24 hours after the start, there is a possibility that you are infected by the bacterial form of mastitis. In case of severe symptoms, you should consult a specialist and you may have to go through a course of antibiotics.
