----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tony & Val 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Friday, 12 November 1999 10:54
Subject: Nipple blisters on mastitis affected breast


Hi all, long time no correspondance from me.  I have a client, primip, baby now 8 days old.  Not breastfed, but fed EBM from a bottle.  Reason....we have been unsucessful at getting this baby on the breast, he is just not interested.  Anyway, we perservere.  Mum has mastitis, really badly in the right breast and when she expresses with the mini electric pump, she gets blisters on the nipple, it looks like a cauliflower.  They are not white spots/blebs, they are genuine blisters.  Post expressing, they disappear and she may have one teeny one remaining, or none.  Breast drains no milk anymore.  During the build up to mastitis, before antibiotic treatment, the breast drained greenish yellow milk.  Any ideas on the blisters or ideas on improving drainage.  The flu symptoms have disappeared but the breast is redder today than yesterday, although it doesn't look anything like an abcess.  Any help would be appreciated.
Val in Busselton, Western Australia
RN RM IBCLC

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