Okay, here's an unusual one!!!!

Tomorrow I am going to work with a mom for the first time who has a baby who is a week old. When her milk arrived 3 days ago, she started to get a really high fever of 103 to 105 after each breastfeeding. The fever stays elevated for about an hour and then returns to the 99's. This has been going on for 3 days. She also has terrible chills for that period of about an hour after each nursing session. She is being treated with  Keflex for a UTI. Her breasts are draining well. I am going to meet her for the first time tomorrow, but from her description they do not appear to have a traditional mastitis. No redness, swelling, pain etc. Breasts are draining well. It is just that she has this miserable fever and chills after pumping or breastfeeding.

So...what is this and is there anything I can do about it? I have searched the archives and  haven't come up with any constructive suggestions, except for trying belladonna, which I will suggest to her, though I do not know anything about dosage etc.

I told her on the phone that I was happy to do the consult, but that I am not at all sure there is anything I can do to make this go away. I thought I would send this out to all of you, with the hope that someone could tell me how to fix this.

Thanks,
Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC (hoping for the miracle cure to fall from cyberspace before my visit tomorrow)

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