The mother I discussed is exclusively pumping for her premies. No
signs of mastitis at this point. She is experienced and would call if
there was even a hint. She is also very careful about cleaning her
equipment. I'll keep you posted . Eileen
> To add to this when I was working as an LC in 60 bed NICU whenever
> we saw
> mothers with this yellow crust on their nipples they went on to
> develop
> mastitis. Now the interesting thing to me is I only saw this in
> mothers who
> were pumping. It would be interesting to figure out why. In fact
> these
> were always NICU moms pumping frequently. We began having mothers
> ask their
> docs for antibx when they developed this yellow crust.
> Any thoughts on why it was seen only in pumping moms?
>
> Kathy Boggs, RN, IBCLC
>
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McMaster University Faculty of Medicine
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