Acute breast infection often occurs during postpartum lactation, so it is called postpartum mastitis, also known as lactating mastitis. The main causes are milk accumulation and bacterial infection. Pathogenic bacteria can invade directly through the milk ducts or through the blood, causing varying degrees of inflammation. Poor milk ducts or improper lactation methods can cause milk to stagnate and become more susceptible to infection.

According to the course of the disease, it can be divided into milk stagnation stage, infiltration stage, and abscess stage. Milk stagnation is the early stage of the disease, the milk discharge is not smooth, there is a hard lump with no obvious boundary in **, and there is throbbing pain and tenderness, and the local surface color remains unchanged or slightly red.

In this case, massage can be performed by yourself.

1. Methods and steps

See Figure 2-3-2.

Figure 2-3-2 Postpartum mastitis massage

(1) The patient can first take the supine position, and the surgeon first uses the fingertips of the remaining four fingers except the thumb, with ** as the center, from the ** around to ** radial direction for 3~5 minutes, see this figure (1).

(2) Immediately after the above method, the surgeon kneades and pushes slightly hard at the induration around the ** with bilateral large thenars, and repeats the operation for 3~5 minutes, see this figure (2).

(3) The patient can be changed to a sitting position, and the surgeon takes the thumb and fingertips as the focus point, and slightly pushes the ** induration or pain for 3~5 minutes, see this figure (3).

(4) Connecting the method, the surgeon adopts the meridian treatment method, and rubs the patient's blood sea, Sanyinjiao, Zusanli and other acupoints with the thumbs of both hands for 3~5 minutes, see this figure (4).

2. Precautions

(1) During breastfeeding, you should keep **and** clean, and change underwear frequently. Avoid sleeping with ** in the baby's mouth.

(2) Develop good breastfeeding habits and keep the baby's mouth clean.

(3) Ensure a happy mood, postpartum depression has a greater impact on this disease.

(4) Early breastfeeding after childbirth to strengthen the function of chest and back muscles.

(5) Appropriate with local hot compress, but not burn or burn the skin to cause infection.

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