Kathleen's post about thrush and Raynauds made me think of a mom I spoke  
with briefly during BF moms group: mom of a few week old baby has a persistent  
(at least two weeks) firm purple bump on a nipple,  bump about the size of  
montgomery tubercle, but on the nipple face, ~7 o'clock position, .....she says  
that nipple becomes progressively painful,  to the point of not  tolerable, 
and bleeds slightly w/BF, ......gets progressively less painful, but  bump does 
not resolve, w/pumping, no observable blood w/pumping, ....a  couple of weeks 
ago she and baby were treated for yeast and she states that it  cleared and 
this is not the same pain,............but she also describes a  recurring small 
fissure at base of that nipple on the opposite side from the  purple bump, 
this fissure recurs when she trys to go back to BF instead of  pumping on that 
side, ......she says that the other nipple is "OK" but that  it does get a 
little purple, not white, with frequent BF.
 
what ya think?............ persistent yeast with Raynauds(?),  .......plugged 
duct/nipple bleb that has some old blood in it resulting  in purple color (?)
 
Debbie  Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
_LCAGW.org_ (http://www.lcagw.org/) 
Co-VP 
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the  Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway

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