>Has anyone heard of treating mastatis on a 2-week old baby girl with
>antibiotics?  One of the baby's breasts is hard and painful and a little
>reddish.  The antibiotics seems to have reduced the redness a bit.  The
>parents are concerned because they are blaming this on breastfeeding.  Any
>ideas?  Need this ASAP.  Thanks!

Yvonne,
I have come across a case like this - the baby was a boy, and breastfeeding
wasn't going well at all. If my memory serves me correctly, baby was
getting quite a lot of formula already. I was called by the mum, as an LC,
to help with the breastfeeding before the mastitis problem flaired (which
it did very suddenly). Baby was quickly hospitalised and breastfeeding was
totally abandoned in the panic. So I suspect, as Pat Young mentioned, that
the hormones responsible were more likely from the pregnancy than from
breastfeeding.

One thing that I remember was that when the mum and baby presented at the
hospital she had trouble getting staff to understand that she was there
because her *baby* had mastitis. They kept thinking it must have been
*her*! So it must be quite unusual.

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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia.   mailto:[log in to unmask]
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