>Has anyone had experience with this thready milk? I tend to think that
>this is what's jamming up her ducts. How can this mom be helped? I seem to
>recall reading something a long time ago from Australia along these lines,
>from Robin?


Judy, there have been posts about what was called "spaghetti milk".  I
searched "spaghetti" and found a couple on this topic (along with several
references to spaghetti that had no connection with milk). I know that there
were more posts on the topic  of what you are calling "thready milk" but I
don't know what to search for. The two that I did find were 8569 and 13062.

I just received more information by searching "stringy milk."  13416 19317 20305

I had a mom with mastitis who would express long strings of thickened milk
that looked like spaghetti from the breast that had the infection. This
continued until her infection cleared up.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee
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