Clogged duct
How did you go getting yours out any tips? Anyone had it like this on areola? It’s been about a week started from a milk bleb which I got out last weekend.
Got antibiotics at the ready to use if I get sick / fever or hit a wall.
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Personally I found it helped to try to time ibuprofen to take it about 20 min before nursing, breast gymnastics and lymph massage especially just before nursing or pumping, and I iced after nursing for 5-10min max. With mastitis, rest is also huge too! Easier said than done though.
This is going to sound strange but hear me out… cabbage leaves. Refrigerate a whole cabbage and take the leaves and put them in your bra. They help with pain, swelling and mastitis. It helped me!!!
My doula actually had me rub castor oil on it. And then my LC said to have at least 4 pills of sunflower letichin and that did the trick. Had multiple
Oh man, so sorry to hear that! There was a protocol that came out end of 2022 from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine that led to me switching how I dealt with clogs and mastitis symptoms (several times chills, low fever, but I think only once did I technically have mastitis). You can Google recs but summary is to decrease inflammation with ice and ibuprofen (not heat and aggressive massage), and do not contribute to oversupply (feed on same schedule). Super gentle lymph massage and breast gymnastics also really helped reduce swelling/inflammation and pain for me. https://www.instagram.com/yourtwojugs?igsh=cGQ5MWNxNDQ1dzI2 Long-term of course you'd want to figure out why it happens/ keeps happening to prevent it, and additional support from an IBCLC can be really helpful. It does not always have to do with you or anything you are doing, really. It can be what is going on with baby's oral function.