I know there is information in the archives on this but do you think I could
find it so I'm posting to the list.

A mother has approached me to find some information for her on mastitis
post-weaning. This mother breastfed her child for just over a year. 7 months
post-weaning she bought a new bra and developed mastitis (previous to this
she did not believe that there was milk in her breasts). She took
antibiotics (sorry don't know details of what she took or for how long) and
mastitis subsided only to re-occur at the same time in her menstrual cycle
as the first bout. Again she took anti-biotics. She's now coming up to the
same point in her cycle again and is feeling like it is going to happen
again.
She had a couple of episodes of mastitis when she was breastfeeding but in
the opposite breast to the one now having problems.

She has not worn the new bra since the first episode. I suggested to her
that the new bra may well have been rubbing and that this may have been
enough stimulation to raise her prolactin levels somewhat and result in some
milk production. Any suggestions as to how she might deal with this? She's
reluctant to just go on antibiotics every month (she wonders if she may not
have been on them for long enough each time). Reasons why mastitis would
occur at the same time in her menstrual cycle?


Karleen Gribble
Australia

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