I had an inquiry from a physician today about a mom who is breastfeeding her
12 month old and has had "red hot,inflammed axillary lymph nodes for the
past 6 weeks."  The history here is:  33 year old Mom has had inflammation
of her axillary lymph nodes since her milk came in a year ago, at first the
lymph nodes were quite large but after her initial fullness went away the
inflammation subsided somewhat.  Six weeks ago she noticed under one arm
only that the nodes were more inflammed and were burning.  She was put on
zithromax and the redness and burning went away but returned the day after
she finished the antibiotic.  She describes the inflammed area as "several
balls in a chain."  She states that it does not feel like mastitis, which
she has had before and her breasts are unchanged.  She has had blood work
done and a mammogram and everything looks normal thus far.  I checked the
archives and came up with some thoughts about antiperspirants and underwire
bras.  I will ask her about these, but wanted to see if you all had anymore
ideas!

Thanks,

Beth Seidel, IBCLC
Mapleton, IL

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