They often need re-drained - they simply fill back up.  In the UK, you 
are recalled in an ongoing pattern, and have them re-drained if they've 
come back.

Mine was emptied 3 times before it stopped filling.  They checked the 
cells every time, as it can be an indicator of more serious problems - 
but equally it's usually not.  So she should go back and have it 
re-drained and tested.

It does sound as if this clinic isn't very used to dealing with them - 
no one at mine was the slightest bit surprised when yoghurt came back up 
the needle from the aspiration.  The ultrasound had only been about 
looking for blood flow through the mass, and the expectation was that a 
lump in a breastfeeding mother's breast, that had developed during the 
breastfeeding, was going to be a milk filled cyst.  It was the breast 
cancer clinic - maybe she didn't go to a specialist breast clinic?

Also, it needs to be Savoy (dark green leafy) cabbage!  :-)  and yes, it 
does work. 

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mom/engorgement.html#cabbage

Morgan  Gallagher

Lisa Simpkins wrote:
> Her history is below, she was very thorough when I asked her to give me
> detailed information before I presented it to you - so it's long.
> I have one question - anybody been successful using cabbage leaves to reduce
> supply?  Is that a ridiculous question, and why I didn't see it in the
> archives? Sorry, though I have been an IBCLC for 3 years, this is my first
> galactocele.  
> Lisa Simpkins IBCLC
> San Diego, CA, USA
>
>   

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