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I'm relating this case history second hand - sorry. I have been requested
to as the mother wants to know of other cases like hers.
She's a doctor nursing a 12-month old in a country town with no LCs. Her
infant bit her and caused a break in the skin of the areola. This wound
has continued to get larger and larger. She apparently treated it with
bactroban once, and antifungals once. As it got larger a colleague of hers
sutured it. When the sutures were removed the wound broke down and
reopened. This happened twice. There was also a dose of mastitis in there
somewhere.
She has had the wound 'deep sutured' now (no, I'm sorry I don't really
understand what they have done). Now she has developed a fistula which is
leaking milk. I'm not sure what the wound looks like at the
moment. Another colleague of hers offered to do a wedge resection of it.
My advice, from a distance, never having spoken to the mother, was firstly
to ring an IBCLC doctor to talk about it, but that she will probably need a
full course of the correct antibiotic and probably a course of
fluconazole. I have mentioned APNO or Kenacomb, but not knowing whether
this wound is wide and gaping again or closed with just a fistula it's a
bit hard to make recommendations.
The mother wants to continue to breastfeed from this side.
Questions: have you seen anything like this before? what was the
management and how did it all finally resolve?
Thank you
Denise
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Denise Fisher BN, RN, RM, IBCLC
BreastEd Online Lactation Studies
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http://www.BreastEdOnline.com
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