Every mother worries about the health of her child. Especially poignant experiences of the newborn immediately after birth because the baby is not yet prepared to extrauterine life, he had not formed immunity, he is weak and helpless. Therefore any disease or infection can affect the most fatal to the health and life of the baby. One of the pitfalls is a disease, as mastitis newborn. Late diagnosis and treatment of this disease can lead to irreversible consequences, including death. How not to miss mastitis and how it differs from physiological breast engorgement?

What is mastitis newborn?

Mastitis - is an acute or chronic inflammation of the mammary gland. Mastitis often develops in women in the postpartum period, less often in menopause or in girls during puberty. Separately isolated mastitis newborn. Mastitis newborn has a direct relationship with physiological breast engorgement, which is associated with the transition of female sex hormones (estrogens) from the body through the placenta to the fetus women. Against the background of physiological swelling of the mammary glands in the event of the accession of infection (through wounds, and pustular skin disease, with blood from other foci of infection) in the newborn develops mastitis. The most common pathogen is Staphylococcus aureus.

The clinical picture of neonatal mastitis

Usually mastitis newborn develops in the first two to three weeks of life, which coincides with the physiological engorgement. Disease with the same frequency are subject to both boys and girls. The current rapid mastitis newborn, characterized by the rapid transition to a purulent form. Mastitis newborn is usually one-sided. The main symptoms of the disease:

• intoxication;
• resizing of the breast;
• breast tenderness.

Intoxication seen a significant increase in the temperature of a child up to the development of seizures. Newborn sluggish and inhibited, or vice versa, restless and excited. Characterized by the absence or loss of appetite, poor baby sucks or refuses to eat. Disturbed sleep and the work of the gastrointestinal tract (vomiting, regurgitation Regurgitation in infants: Causes and Treatment , Diarrhea). In the early hours of the development of breast disease has not changed much, then there is a reddening of the skin of the breast, increasing its size, compaction and sharp pain. With the progression of mastitis occurs festering pathological focus, there is fluctuation, much worse overall. At untimely consulting a doctor can develop cellulitis chest and sepsis. Purulent mastitis girls have a poor prognosis. In severe cases, die of the cancer, clogged ducts that will affect the future of lactation. Improper treatment of mastitis causing chronic process and contributes to the development of complications (spontaneous autopsy purulent foci with the formation of mammary fistula).

Treatment of mastitis newborn

In the case of disease you must immediately consult a doctor. Mastitis newborn is treated only in a hospital. First make sowing secreted from the mammary gland to determine pathogen and defining its sensitivity to antibiotics. The stage infiltrative mastitis Mastitis - what to do with the inflammation of the breast?   held conservative therapy. Appointed poluspirtovye compresses with honey The benefits of honey: tasty recovery , Ointment dressings (with Vishnevsky ointment, ointment ichthyol), physiotherapy. If suppuration shows pathological focus surgery (radial incisions are indented from the areola to the three to four millimeters). Wound drainage is not carried out. Postoperatively appointed dressings with hypertonic solution, subsequently replacing them with ointment dressings (ointment levomekol). Compulsory appointed antibiotics, vitamins and physiotherapy.

Anna Sozinova

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