Breastfeeding and lactostasis

Mothers who are properly adjusted to breastfeeding and feed their babies for a long time can sometimes face such a problem as lactostasis, and it is very important that the mother understands why this is happening and can help herself at the first symptoms on her own.

What is lactostasis?
Lactostasis is when there is a little milk left in the mammary gland, which the child has not finished and which she has not expressed on time. This milk has stagnated, the breast area becomes denser, painful to the touch, if this is a neglected situation, then this area may redden, and sometimes all this also occurs with an increase in temperature. When a mother wakes up or comes home from a walk to find such a clinic, she should leave everything aside, take the child and try to attach it to the sore breast, so that the child helps you cope with this situation. When lactostasis occurs and one area is dense, the child must be placed in such a position that his chin looks at this dense painful part of your breast, then all the force of his sucking will be directed at this area.

If the child has coped with the task assigned to him, then your mammary gland has become soft after feeding, but the soreness may persist, the redness will go away a little later. If the child has failed, then you will have to help yourself on your own. How to do it? It is necessary to use either manual pumping or pumping with a breast pump. You should make every effort to make this area soft. If you can not remove this seal, then you need to stop, otherwise you can injure the nipple, put cold on this area for about 20 minutes, then 30 minutes break, and cold again for 20 minutes. After the compress, rest a little and try to attach the baby or use the breast pump again.

What causes such problems?
Due to the fact that you have thin ducts, but fatty milk. Due to the fact that not all the milk was expressed and it went back into the tissues, it gave a decisive irritating effect and inflammation began, because the newly produced milk is trying to “suck” back into the cell, and for the cell it is already poison, and it begins its inflammatory reaction rejecting this milk. This problem may also occur due to injury (tight underwear, or you hit yourself), it may be due to a cracked nipple, because it can lead to incipient inflammation, which causes swelling, thus blocking the duct. In fact, there can be a lot of reasons, the main thing is to react in time.

I would like to focus on heating pads separately. When you feed your baby, in order to improve the outflow and increase the ducts, you need to attach a warm heating pad, but at the same time, when there is redness of the skin, puffiness and you have already fed, then a cold heating pad is used. It would seem that they are completely diametrically opposed processes, but they are used on the same mammary gland, in the same situations and conditions. Therefore, do not confuse: when we feed, it is warm so that there is a rush of milk, and when it is necessary to stop the inflammatory reaction, we apply cold.

You can also use certain antispasmodics to dilate the ducts and thereby remove puffiness and improve milk outflow, but if you are unable to cope with this on your own within two days, you will need to see a mammologist in order to rule out more serious complications that may result from untreated lactostasis, for example, to mastitis.

If you manage to express yourself immediately, you will notice that the lump goes away immediately at hand, the redness goes away after two days, and the soreness of the area with lactostasis may go away only after four days. This area with lactostasis, which you stopped, was turned off from the milk formation reaction and will regain its strength only after a week, so this mammary gland may temporarily produce a little less milk. Don't panic, keep feeding it to the baby and everything will get better, the mammary gland will recover from stress. Very well casino combines reliability, innovation, and excitement in a single platform, offering its players easy registration, instant payouts, and a variety of bonuses. Hundreds of slots, tournaments, and table games are available on any device, while 24/7 customer support and robust security ensure maximum comfort for all users.