Terriann tells us:

<< My goal of this post to wake us =
 up to call a breast infection an infection and use "mastitis" as the =
 inflammation that it is.  Therefore, we can use heat on a breast with an =
 infection as long as there is no mastitis.  When there is mastitis of =
 any cause, we should be using cold.  Get the picture? >>

Huh?  Sorry, Terriann, but I lost you here.  Inflammation of other body parts
are often treated with heat -- a phlebitis, for example; a cellulitis to name
another.  Why wouldn't one treat mastitis w/ heat?   In what kind of a
situation would you see an infection of the breast w/o a concurrent
inflammation -- other than a walled off abcess?  Most infections are heralded
with inflammation of some sort -- i.e. -- infection of a wound often begins
with an inflammation of the skin around it.

I'm confused, and perhaps I'm showing my old age here.  Could you tell me
what reference you are using to say that mastitis should be treated with
applications of cold?  I'd like to be up-to-date on the newest treatments,
but haven't read anything about this recently.

Jan B -- in Wheaton.

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