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Patrica Young <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:46:43 -0500
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Hi all - any ideas?  Thanks, Pat in SNJ

> Hi Pat, Today Jan & I witnessed something we had never seen before in
> our practice. New mother comes in with a very severe mastitis on both
> breasts that had been treated with antibiotics but still looking bad
> after 2 weeks. Nipples also sore, tried the jell patches 2 days after
> Lansinoh proved ineffective, The clincher was the mother reported that
> from her l. breast was coming something that looked like a jelly fish!
> We were both amazed by the looks of the breasts and that statement so we
> had her pump.  -- sure enough -- there was milk coming from the r. side
> and very little from the l side. We had her stop pumpng after 10 min and
> sure enough there was a clear glob which when examind looked like a
> jellyfish. about the size of a nickle. She said she gets that every time
> she pumps. She's feeding from what she pumps from the r. side and is
> getting a new Rx from the OB for her sore nipples. We took the strange
> glob to the lab and they didn't know what to do with it. Any
> ideas?Thanks Again Mary
>

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