Breast pain during breast feeding (mastitis)

Breast pain or mastitis is an infection that occurs in breast tissue, resulting in the breasts become swollen, red and painful. Sometimes fever might also occur. Usually mastitis is experienced by breast feeding mothers, even though it can also be experienced rather than during feeding (rare). It is estimated that mastitis can be experienced by 1 out of 10 people nursing mothers.

Usually, mastitis or breast due to breast pain usually occurs during the first 3 months after delivery. This condition can cause the mom to be exhausted and difficult to care for the baby. Sometimes, because mastitis can also make the mom stopped giving milk to the baby, even though not wish it. But actually women experiencing breast pain or mastitis can continues to give milk to their babies.

Mastitis is usually caused due to milk stasis, which is where the milk into the breast tissue because it is not excluded. This can happens when the baby does not empty the breast milk when breast feeding, which can be caused by inappropriate feeding.

Beside this, there are also some things that can cause mastitis,
* The size of the breast that grows massive and did not return to normal size.
* Schedule of breast feeding that is too tight.
* The wound in the breast.

Occasionally, these cans deteriorate and become infective mastitis. This can occurs if the wound has a nipple / cracked, so the infection cans enter the lymphatic system in breast tissue.

Here are the symptoms of mastitis,

* Breast reddish color.
* Breast feel hard.
* Pain or pain in the breast.
* Breast hot.
* Swelling in the breast.

It can also feel like a lump in the breast, which is often called the mammary gland is clogged. But it is not because of the blockage, but because there is breast milk into the breast tissue rather than into the mammary gland.

Besides the above symptoms, usually a woman who experienced mastitis also will feel:

* Chills.
* Headache.
* Body temperature> 38.5 ° C.
* Easily tired.

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