Pat, and the sad thing is that lactation might be affected for future
babies, because the abscess essentially creates a big "hole" inside the
breast tissue, obliterating and destroying duct tissue. I do not know if
this repairs itself, but I have seen a picture of an abscess opened up and
it is just a huge sac of pus where milk making tissue should be. Really
nasty. The term negligence comes to mind here.

Kathleen

At 12:26 AM 10/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>The
>photo of the breast made you wince to even look at it--the whole top of
>the breast was red, shiny, distended.  She had been called in to see what
>she thought and then no one listened to her!!!  The concensus was that by
>now the the mom had had an abscess (which the doctors did nothing about,
>not even a needle biopsy) and the abscess had ruptured and all that yucky
>stuff was now circulating in the breast tissue.  Lactation was
>essentially finished on that breast for this baby.

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