Is breast pain a sign of pregnancy?

Chest pain cannot be used as a symptom of pregnancy to determine whether you are pregnant. Chest pain is more likely to be inflammation of tissues and organs in the body. If you want to confirm pregnancy, you can test it yourself with a test strip. In addition, if the chest pain symptoms persist for a long time, you should go to the hospital for relevant examinations. If it is an inflammation, you should still seek treatment as soon as possible. The following editor will briefly introduce the basic situation of chest mastitis.

Overview of Mastitis

Mastitis is a common disease among women. Depending on the cause, it can be divided into acute suppurative mastitis, paraareolar fistula, plasma cell mastitis, etc. Here we will discuss the most common acute suppurative mastitis. Acute suppurative mastitis often occurs during the lactation period, especially within 1 to 2 months after delivery in primiparas, so it is also called acute lactation or puerperal suppurative mastitis, and is called "mast abscess" in traditional Chinese medicine. The incidence of acute mastitis in primiparas is as high as 2% to 4%, which is twice as high as that in multiparas.

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Acute mastitis should be treated as early as possible. Early mastitis is mainly characterized by milk stasis inflammation, which has not yet formed into pus, and can be treated with ultrashort wave therapy. If the fever is high, it can be treated with infusion, penicillin, and cephalosporin antibiotics. It is recommended not to breastfeed while taking antibiotics.

When acute mastitis reaches the stage of abscess formation, timely incision and drainage are required. The size and position of the incision should be based on the principle of ensuring smooth drainage of pus. Because breast abscesses are often multi-chambered, it is necessary to use fingers to separate the connective tissue partitions of multiple abscess cavities so that drainage can be unobstructed. Abscesses deep in the breast are mainly characterized by high fever and chills. The local redness and swelling are not obvious, and there is no fluctuation. A puncture and pus extraction test can be done first, and then an incision can be made after the presence of pus is confirmed. It is best not to wait for breast abscess to rupture on its own, because the abscess cavities are often multiple or occur one after another, and the spontaneous rupture cannot be drained completely. Generally speaking, as long as the pus is drained and the fever subsides, suppurative mastitis will enter the wound healing period. The dressing will be changed every other day, and the wound will usually heal within a month.

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