thelilbump
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Hi girls.
well i think I may have got mastitis after much investigation. Yesterday one of my boobs got really sore and stingy and about half an hour later i came over quite ill. I was boiling (tho oh said i was freezing) and felt like i was going to be sick. I had to feed Millie and decided to put her on the sore breast to see if it would ease it which it did and i started to feel better. Then the next time i fed her on that breast i came over all sickly again. This morning theres some red blotching to my breast. My oh's mum said it sounded like classic symptoms of mastitis (which i'd never even heard of) and i've just looked it up on the nhs website and it seems to match.
Has anyone had this? Should i go the doctors or just try to express to see if that'll force the blocked duct open (i've got an electric modela pump, quite powerful )? It says on the nhs website about being 2 forms, the later one being a bacterial infection but how can you tell if it's infected or not? Also what causes the blocked duct? Is it from her not latching on properly? I've always thought she was doing it correctly though she takes less of the areola now.
Any ideas at all girls? Thanks x
well i think I may have got mastitis after much investigation. Yesterday one of my boobs got really sore and stingy and about half an hour later i came over quite ill. I was boiling (tho oh said i was freezing) and felt like i was going to be sick. I had to feed Millie and decided to put her on the sore breast to see if it would ease it which it did and i started to feel better. Then the next time i fed her on that breast i came over all sickly again. This morning theres some red blotching to my breast. My oh's mum said it sounded like classic symptoms of mastitis (which i'd never even heard of) and i've just looked it up on the nhs website and it seems to match.
Has anyone had this? Should i go the doctors or just try to express to see if that'll force the blocked duct open (i've got an electric modela pump, quite powerful )? It says on the nhs website about being 2 forms, the later one being a bacterial infection but how can you tell if it's infected or not? Also what causes the blocked duct? Is it from her not latching on properly? I've always thought she was doing it correctly though she takes less of the areola now.
Any ideas at all girls? Thanks x