>Two weeks ago baby bite her hard, no skin broken but felt very bruised.
>Since then she has continued to be sore when nursing - now has deeper breast
>pain too.  No changes in breast warmth.  No systemic mastitis symptoms.
>Nipple tip now blanched (this is new) after nursing.  I'm thinking local
>swelling after the bite caused milk stasis followed by mastitis.  Baby
>continues to nurse, breast is not engorged.

The blanched nipple is my clue that this is yeast again... yeast that got a
foothold into the breast from the abrasion from the the bite...

There are two kinds of mastitis, the kick you in the butt, flue like
bacterial mastitis and the deep persistent breast pain, often shooting to
the back, mom sometimes reports it feels like shards of glass being dragges
out during feeds, blanched nipple(often just the tip) on very pink/nearly
red nipple base and areola...

Treat for yeast!!! Treat home and family too... see archives for how to's

in moldy old oregon, just beginning to dry out
Anne E. Robb, MAT, LLLL
Off on a Tanget, Oregon, USA
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