Dear Friends: I have permission of the poster to pose this situation to you. What do you all think? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My four month old boy has mastitis, or appears to have had mastitis which then morphed into an absess on his areola just below the nipple. It started as a small bump deep in the chest wall, and over a few weeks it got bigger. Last week it began to swell the breast area a bit, no redness, and this weekend it became a small red lump. By today it was a huge blister with obvious pus behind it so off we trotted to the doctor. They decided to lance it, and drained several tablespoons of infected fluid out. I have a standing script for antibiotics if it starts looking worse, otherwise I am waiting it out. They hadn't ever seen this before. Has anyone else had this happen with their kid or someone elses?? Seemed bizarre to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html