Loni has mentioned a 6 month pregnant mother with severely enlarged breasts.
While it is always possible that the breasts are extremely hypertropic from
the pregnancy, I think they should both be imaged immediately to rule out
inflammatory breast cancer. There could also be abscesses present and any number
of other pathologies. I would seriously consider no lymphatic drainage until
the breasts have been evaluated. The last thing we would want to see is
cancer cells massaged into the axillary lymph nodes.
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA
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