What to do if you have a fever while milking

Many mothers often get sick during breastfeeding, and they may also have a fever due to milking when breastfeeding their babies. In fact, milking during breastfeeding is very common. Many mothers will have hard lumps, redness, swelling and pain in their breasts, and they will also have a fever after milking. This situation may be caused by fever due to mastitis, hyperplasia, incomplete breast milk discharge, and accumulation of leftover milk. First of all, you should drain the remaining milk after breastfeeding. You can drink more warm water, and use your hands to gently massage and squeeze to reduce the fever caused by milking.

Solution: Fever caused by milking during lactation is probably caused by mastitis. What should you do if you have a fever while milking? The first principle is to avoid milk stasis, prevent nipple damage, and keep the breasts clean. If milk squeezing occurs during lactation, you can take 30 grams of tangerine seeds decocted in water after delivery, usually 2-3 doses, to prevent milk stasis. Try to drain out all the milk each time you breastfeed. If you have too much milk and cannot drain it all through breastfeeding, you can use a breast pump to drain the milk, or gently squeeze and massage with your hands to drain the milk. Before weaning, the number of breastfeeding times should be gradually reduced, and 60 grams each of malt and hawthorn, or 15 grams of raw loquat leaves should be boiled into a decoction and drunk as tea. If your nipples are already damaged, you can apply sesame oil or egg yolk oil on them and treat them promptly. In the later stages of pregnancy, you should frequently use warm water or 75% alcohol to scrub the nipples and areola area to enhance the breast skin's ability to resist infection. Keeping breasts clean is the most basic preventive measure. Postpartum women should wash their nipples with warm water and keep them clean after regular breastfeeding. If you experience breast lumps, swelling and pain, you can apply Glauber's salt externally to help it disappear. ?

Question 1 : 1. Children cannot drink the squeezed milk. Is it milk that has gone bad due to a virus? If acute mastitis is caused by milk stasis, the cause is most likely that the breasts are squeezed or collided, or that breastfeeding is not frequent enough and the milk is not emptied in time. There is no need to rush to use medication at this time. It is recommended to use a towel for local hot compress on the basis of protecting the nipple from damage, and let the baby suck as much milk from that side as possible. If the baby cannot eat it, use a breast pump to suck out the retained milk several times. Of course, the milk does not carry viruses, so you can let the baby drink it with confidence.

Question 2 : 2. The milking side cannot be touched. Do I need to give the baby an injection to reduce inflammation and stop breastfeeding? If milk stagnation occurs within twelve hours, the lumps must be scraped away with the back of a wooden comb or a scraping board. The technique is very simple: apply olive oil on the breast on the side where milking is taking place, and comb the mammary glands several times along the outside of the lump toward the nipple to clear the mammary gland. It will be very painful at first. Chinese medicine often says "pain occurs if there is no blockage" and "when the disease first occurs, the main approach is to disperse the pain, supplemented by clearing away heat". This means that don't rush to take medicine to reduce fever, and don't treat the symptoms instead of the cause. You should focus on the main contradiction and clear the meridians first.

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