So, what is this?
The term lactostasis means a milk stop and fully explains the essence of the phenomenon itself. Milk stagnation occurs when there is no movement of milk in any part of the breast. A stopper appears that does not allow the newly emerged milk to leave, and an edema appears in the vagina of the milk plug, which is felt as a compaction, rather painful, with redness and accompanied by a fever.
Help us
First of all, change the position of the baby when feeding it, if you are sure that stagnation has appeared in the mammary gland. The child is most convenient to suck milk from the area of the chest, which indicates the chin of the baby. In order to defeat the stagnation of milk, you need to pay attention to this. If, suddenly, you feel discomfort somewhere in the armpits caused by the severity of the vzrydi, then the child needs to be put from under the arm. If the center of stagnation is located closer to the chest, then feed lying on its side, but the upper chest, not the lower one. If the child is put on his knees, face xebe, he will quickly manage with an excess of milk in the necessary part of the breast. To make the baby able to resolve the compaction in the upper part of the chest, which occurs quite rarely, it is necessary to feed in an unconventional posture, used precisely for such a case: a bed or a changing table, but not with legs against oneself, to bend over it in an unusual and inverted position.
Frequent feeding from the breast with spasm, promote the return to normal milk movement. It is better to feed often, but in small portions, after an hour or two. To fall asleep better together with a smile, so that it would be more convenient to feed them even at night, every 3 hours.
It happens that there are enough of these simple methods, but nevertheless, in most cases, you need to express the milk in addition. If uvlas laktostaz, the temperature lasts day or it is not at all, but then you need to express the milk so:
- first make a compress, for example, soak the towel with hot water and attach to the problem chest. You can also take a bath or a hot shower, this contributes to the outflow of milk.
- then you need to gently massage the stagnation zone. Lubricate the skin with baby oil, so as not to damage the rubbing.
- then express the milk, focus on the occluded area
- then make a cool compress for five, ten minutes to remove the swelling. We need such a sequence!
Even better, this immediately after you express the milk, give the baby a breast, the children suck in fine the remains of the stalks. It happens that it needs to be repeated, but it needs to be done less than three times a day. In case you can not express a milk powder, then you need to use a breast pump, the best devices for expressing milk are biphasic.
In the intervals between feeding the baby it is better to do compresses, they will relieve the pain and help to dissolve stagnant milk. The simplest thing is cold compresses. But there are also such ways:
- slightly beat off the cabbage leaf, so that the juice appears, and it will have a therapeutic effect. Also, make sure that the juice does not get into the nipple zone, it is harmful to the baby.
- mix honey and rye flour to a steep dough, get the honey cake applied to the sick zone.
- You can also make a compress made of low-fat cold cottage cheese.
The time to apply each compress is twenty minutes.
Also, according to the recommendations of the mother, Arnica, Traumele C, helps to get this ointment and cream in the pharmacy, you need to lubricate the painful areas in the breaks between the feedings. It is also possible to use Malavit. Moisten them with a cotton swab and apply for 30 minutes before or after expressing the milk.
More rest, because the lack of rest is sometimes the cause of milk stagnation. You can just hang out for a little while and just relax!
What is undesirable to do
Stop feeding the baby. Lactostasis will not hurt your child, on the contrary - the baby is best to help with the mammary glands.
It is not recommended to heat the chest during breaks between feedings, unless of course you are not going to immediately drain the milk. Also, you can not spread the breast with Vishnevsky's ointment, or with alcohol or camphor. All this contributes to the delay in the outflow of milk. Vazhnevsky's ointment and alcohol often lead to encapsulation of the problem area of the breast and the formation of an abscess of a cavity filled with pus, and then there is no surgical intervention. The use of camphor in general can affect the production of milk, stop it in the breast areas where it was used.
If milk stasis reminds you only of condensation, you do not need to worry, use the above scheme. Accurately comply with the recommendations, if the temperature rises, if possible, call the specialist for feeding in a natural way. But if suddenly the temperature does not drop for a long time, for example, more than two days in the first month of a baby's baby's life - consult a mammologue specialist or a gynecologist. Seeking a specialist is worth it if the compaction does not disappear and does not decrease for more than a week. In such cases, the specialist will prescribe physiotherapy, but if mastitis occurs, he will be prescribed antibiotic antibiotics, which are almost always compatible with the feeding of the child.
Everything is not so terrible, you only need to monitor the condition and not start a disease!