Mastitis
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Buy some Poke Root and see if you can get some immediately somewhere like your local midwife, take 2-3 drops every night for next 3 nights and continue to breast feed on the painful breast, have the baby help you as babies are best at sucking any kind of blocked ducts out, better than any pumps. If you have a Hakka do a salt and warm water soak, warm showers and continue to breast feed to get it out. If things don’t improve or you have a fever then antibiotics will be needed for sure. Give your doctor a heads up. But try the other remedies too if you can are able. Take some soya/ sunflower lecithin too daily this will keep milk flowing rather than be thick and lumpy that helps reduce blocked ducts..
https://herblore.com/overviews/poke-root/
Here’s a brand suggested by my midwife to keep on hand especially in the early days.. same thing happened to me and it cleared out overnight, fingers crossed it helps you and works out. Keep us posted.
@Ariel I never heard of this! Good to know. Yes I also forgot the salt water and Hakka that helped me too.
@Elysha me neither, my midwife got these and group of other herbal tinctures in the first week I gave birth to keep on hand and I used all of them, including poke root which took care of my fever, blocked ducts which could have led to mastitis the next day had I waited. I’d recovered overnight with this and the continued feeding on the blocked breast, saved me! Hope this helps someone.
If there’s a rash or there’s no sign of improvement please see a doctor for antibiotics. I had mastitis and it was crippling. The hakka and salt water is great! You can also see a physio who can do a deep massage with a machine to unclog the ducts.
Definitely see a doctor. Antibiotics worked quickly when I had it. Hot shower, hand expression or pump then cold compress to help reduce inflammation
I had mastitis 3 times in the first 10 weeks. Antibiotics work so quickly. I also found lying in the bath and hand expressing from the area worked well. Pumping made it a lot worse for me as I already had a lot of milk and this encouraged more. So would go cautiously. I would get seen by the GP today and get the antibiotics. If you want to wait to start them and try some other techniques then you could but honestly within a couple of doses I started to feel better each time!
Definitely don’t pump it’ll make it worse! Hand express and take a hot bath or shower and massage the area. I also found hot water bottles help if you’re not able to get in the bath. If it doesn’t get better definitely go to the doctor for antibiotics x
Pumping will make it worse. More demand = more supply = more milk making it painful. Mastitis is caused by inflammation so heat can make it worse. Cold compresses , Advil and Tylenol , resting , not supplying more milk than required and a very light lymphatic massage will all help.
Ladies, thank you all so much. Boob is feeling much better now. I appreciate all your advice ♥️♥️♥️💕💕💕 xxx
So glad to hear!
Ok start with massaging it a lot. If you have something that vibrates to put on it even better. It’s going to hurt. I would tell your doctor and over the next 24 if it doesn’t start to get better you will probably need an antibiotic. Hot showers and massage. Heat to it. Nurse as much as you can on it and pump a ton. You are engorged and you need to feed or pump when your breast are that full. Take a look at your nipple in the shower you might see the clogged milk duct and be able to kinda work the clog out like sort of popping a pimple. I found mine and was able to do that. If you can’t pump, then one of those silicone milk catchers do a trick to help get the milk out with gravity. Breastfeeding is not easy.