>I find folks (sometimes even
within the breastfeeding community) don't distinguish well between
infectious vs inflammatory mastitis.

Anyone have a better term for inflammatory mastitis?<

Renfrew, Woolridge and Ross McGill, in their invaluable book 'Enabling Women
to Breastfeed' (2000) -- been discussed before on lactnet, a review of
evidence, no one in the UK should be thinking of practicing without it, use
the terminology, which I believe they may have taken from Mavis Gunther, a
doc who was writing in the 50's, 'obstructive' and 'infectious' mastitis.
This matches descriptions of aetiologies.  Since an infectious mastitis can
also be inflamed (yes?) the distinction above is less easy to apply.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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