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Re: Case study- help needed please ...Former listmom request.
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Holly McSpadden <[log in to unmask]>
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Galactocele?



Holly McSpadden, IBCLC



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> On May 6, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Kathleen Bruce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 

> Hi all. Good morning.  I have a case study to present, and welcome any

> information or experience you might be able to share with me, as I am a bit

> stumped. I've been an IBCLC since 1993 and have been working with bf

> mothers in my area in Vermont, and over the world as an online LC, and here

> as the Lactnet dreamer upper for donkey years.

> 

> In any case, here's the info, permission to share:

> 

> 30 year old first time mom. Nursing active 12 month old. Lots of nursing at

> night, not so much during day.(too busy is the baby). : )

> 

> Mother has had a few bouts of mastitis, one lately that stemmed from a

> 2x2x2cm lump close to her chest wall. Mother is slight frame, and has large

> D breasts.  The lump is deep in there. Heat, massage, extra nursing did not

> help. Was treated with round of antibiotics. Upon completion of Diclox

> round, the lump was still there.

> 

> Mother very concerned. Saw breast surgeon, who did not have vast knowledge

> of the lactating breast, but who did ultrasound it. She has a mass of

> hardened milk, he thought. No needle biopsy. Did not appear to be cancer,

> or an abscess.  Has anyone heard of this large an area of hardened milk?

> 

> What to do with this? She is nervous that it will turn into an abscess, and

> is doing her best to keep heat on it and to breastfeed as much as a break

> nursing toddler will allow.

> 

> Thoughts please.  Thank you .  Kathleen Bruce RN IBCLC Please email me

> directly as well as to Lactnet.  [log in to unmask]

> 

> ​Kathleen B. Bruce

> RN IBCLC

> N. Vermont, USA

> Lactnet Inventor, 1995 ​

> [log in to unmask]

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