Can I breastfeed if I have mastitis?

Mastitis is a common breast disease in clinical practice, which has a great impact on women's body. In particular, many women suffer from mastitis during breastfeeding, which may affect their children. Whether you can breastfeed if you have mastitis actually depends on the symptoms and severity of the mastitis. Learn more below.

1. In the early stages of mastitis, there are often nipple cracks, milk stasis or lumps, and one or two milk ducts may be blocked. Breast pain and tenderness. If there are or not lumps, the skin is not red or slightly red, the skin is not hot or slightly hot, and the symptoms are not serious, you can breastfeed your child, and you should breastfeed your child by breastfeeding, try to let the child suck all the milk, promote the emptying of milk, and help improve the condition.

2. When mastitis worsens, the symptoms become more obvious, the pain becomes more severe, the lumps become obvious, the skin becomes red and hot, and abscesses form. It is not easy to feed the baby during this period, or to feed with the other healthy breast. To promote smooth discharge of milk, stop breastfeeding and express the milk by hand or use a breast pump.

3. If you have a high fever during mastitis, you should stop breastfeeding your baby. The high fever has affected the quality of breast milk and it is not suitable to feed the child. Breastfeeding should be suspended for a period of time and other methods should be used to drain milk. Correct treatment under the guidance of a physician.

4. During the treatment process, if you take therapeutic drugs, you must determine whether you can breastfeed your child based on the characteristics of the drugs and under the guidance of a doctor. Some drugs are taken orally and absorbed by the body, which may affect the quality of breast milk, making it difficult to breastfeed. Generally speaking, Western medicine has a greater impact on breast milk, while Chinese medicine has a smaller impact or even no impact.