The continuous sore nipples and shooting pains going up into the breast 
tissue sound like thrush to me. I am not sure what would cause all the 
blood. I would love to hear everyone's ideas. Stacee, RN

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From: "cian sawyer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: Blood in Milk, Prickly Pain


> Dear Lactnetters,
>
> I am looking for some experienced advice on a matter please.  As a  CLC, I 
> am just way in over my head here.  I searched the archives but  found 
> nothing that appears to be relevant.  So here goes:
>
> I have a friend who has been exclusively nursing her son since his  birth 
> five months ago.  We've worked and worked on the latch but it  doesn't 
> seem to make a difference because his latch  usually looks  good on the 
> outside: wide gape, outward curl, lots of tissue in the  mouth and all 
> that, but still she continues to suffer from sore  nipples.  (Could he 
> have a short frenulum?  Or a high palette?)
>
> In addition to this, she's had more than a few episodes of pretty  heavy 
> blood flow from the nipples while nursing, particularly on the  right 
> side.  One night she even thought that her son was bleeding  because of 
> the large quantity of blood on his face.  He also has  melina stools after 
> these 'episodes' so it's quite a bit of blood  that he's ingesting.  He 
> has even spit up what looked like pure  blood.  She also experiences sharp 
> prickly pains that shoot up her  breast.  She says it feels like it goes 
> from the nipples and up the  ducts.  It happens during nursing and 
> continues even after her baby  is finished and has come off her breast. 
> Again,  primarily on the  right side but a little on the left as well.  I 
> would like to note  that the right side produces significantly greater 
> quantities of milk  when she pumps.  I looked and looked at her nipples 
> and saw a few  tell-tale crescent shaped cracks at the base of her nipple 
> which says  appear from time to time.  To me, the pain and cracks point to 
> a poor  latch.  But what about the blood and pain?  I don't see any signs 
> of  thrush.
>
> I just don't know what to do!   Please help!
>
> P.S. the last episode with the blood was well over a month ago. 
> Hopefully it is gone for good.  But I am still curious to hear what  this 
> could possibly be.  Many thanks!
>
> cian sawyer, CLC
> Nassau, Bahamas
>
>
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