Haven't really followed this thread, but a thing that crossed my mind was:
could this be a piece of silicone ? Did she ever had any
breastsurgery/implants ?

Just wondering.

Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands

At 20:46 13-2-00 -0500, you wrote:
>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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