I received a phone call from a mother of a 15 month old (mom is a
physician's assistant and is very savvy and smart).  When the baby was about
12 months, in late November, still nursing, not weaning, she developed a
case of mastitis, had two courses of antibiotics. Pain and redness went away
but not the lump.  She finished the abx, redness came back.  The lump was
lanced with a drainage tube put in, drained well, closed up.

A couple weeks later, the lump was back, the incision reopened on its own,
and on Valentines' Day, they did an irrigation and drainage, general
anesthesia, put in the drains. Another lump developed and they lanced
another area higher up on the upper outer left breast in early March.  This
week the drain areas are leaking a brownish substance.

No nasties culture out, but there are a lot of white blood cells she said
mixed in with the substance which they told her was milk.  3 or 4 core
biopsies have been done of the lumps-- cancer is ruled out.

So she called me.  Tis out of my experience area so I am writing you wise
ones!  I am putting a tap out to our state coalition for names of good
breast surgeons so she can look for another opinion as her docs admit they
are stymied.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Questions to ask?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Karen Foard, IBCLC
State College, PA

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