We have had several mothers who had repeated bouts of mastitis.  We now do a milk culture on anyone who is starting her third  in a row and have found some unusual bacteria that were not covered by the usual antibiotics.    Eileen


On 2012-09-11, at 8:37 PM, the juliest person you know wrote:

> At this past ILCA conference I attended a class on repeated infections.  The upshot was that it's not recurrent infections; it's the same infection that has not gone away.  And it's almost always going to be bacterial, not fungal.  Basically, the mom has to go on a long course of antibiotics: six weeks.  IMO, she also needs to take lots of probiotics as well, 100 billion organsisms/day at times offset with the antibiotics, or she will end up with a fungal infection.  I just went looking through my handouts and couldn't find the study.  I think I have to search online for it.  It's good for the moms to have something in hand to give to their doctors.  I think the other point made was that you want to culture the milk so the antibiotic can be specific to that organism.  
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