Galactocele?
Holly McSpadden, IBCLC
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> On May 6, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Kathleen Bruce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi all. Good morning. I have a case study to present, and welcome any
> information or experience you might be able to share with me, as I am a bit
> stumped. I've been an IBCLC since 1993 and have been working with bf
> mothers in my area in Vermont, and over the world as an online LC, and here
> as the Lactnet dreamer upper for donkey years.
>
> In any case, here's the info, permission to share:
>
> 30 year old first time mom. Nursing active 12 month old. Lots of nursing at
> night, not so much during day.(too busy is the baby). : )
>
> Mother has had a few bouts of mastitis, one lately that stemmed from a
> 2x2x2cm lump close to her chest wall. Mother is slight frame, and has large
> D breasts. The lump is deep in there. Heat, massage, extra nursing did not
> help. Was treated with round of antibiotics. Upon completion of Diclox
> round, the lump was still there.
>
> Mother very concerned. Saw breast surgeon, who did not have vast knowledge
> of the lactating breast, but who did ultrasound it. She has a mass of
> hardened milk, he thought. No needle biopsy. Did not appear to be cancer,
> or an abscess. Has anyone heard of this large an area of hardened milk?
>
> What to do with this? She is nervous that it will turn into an abscess, and
> is doing her best to keep heat on it and to breastfeed as much as a break
> nursing toddler will allow.
>
> Thoughts please. Thank you . Kathleen Bruce RN IBCLC Please email me
> directly as well as to Lactnet. [log in to unmask]
>
> Kathleen B. Bruce
> RN IBCLC
> N. Vermont, USA
> Lactnet Inventor, 1995
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