Leigh Anne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> She called me tonight - she nursed baby on non-lump side then nursed
> her on the lump side then began expressing and then realized baby was
> taking in a black, foul smelling milk - she panicked - called ped -
> who suggested AIM and expressing to keep up supply.

Was it black on both sides, or just the side with the (now gone) lump?

Did she save the black milk for examination? (visual, microscopy,
culture?) It's rare (and more common in immunosuppressed individuals)
but not impossible to get aspergillosis of the breast, though the
"black" could just be old coagulated blood from an abscess/bleed into a
galactocoele.

Is she well or ill in general? Has she had a full blood picture? How
painful and tender was the lump? Were there swollen lymph nodes,
surrounding cellulitis? I think there is quite a bit of clinical
information here that can't usefully be evaluated over the phone.

Lara Hopkins

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