Hi Becky et al: I have seen milk coming out of the Montgomery glands
(usually only droplets) on a handful of occasions, always during a bout with
severe engorgement, seen it twice on moms with perfectly normal histories,
no surgeries.  Saw it once on a mom who had a sugically induced inverted
nipple.  She developed a breast abcess during an earlier lactation,and after
it was lanced and drained, the nipple inverted (I'm assuming due to traction
from scar tissue). in her case we were unable to get more than a few drops
from the affected nipple, but the Montgomery glands on that side were
leaking.  -yes, the breast is truly amazing!------Martha Johnson RN IBCLC in
Eugene Oregon  (where we're experiencing the onset of heavenly fall
weather)---------
> From:         rebecca b saenz[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 19, 1998 2:59 PM
> Subject:      cut ducts - amazing!
>
> Saw a lady last week who'd had surgery by a "breast specialist" about six
> years ago for "idiopathic galctorrhea".  She'd had the ducts cut
> bilaterally, and the nerve cut on one side.  Now she's got a baby and
> wants to breastfeed.  The amazing part - she's got milk coming out of
> ductal openings onto the areola on the side with intact nerve.  Has
> anybody ever seen this???  (Spoke to a surgeon friend who said he'd never
> even heard of that procedure; wasn't sure it was a legitimate procedure.
> Duh!) She did have scars at the junction of nipple and areola bilaterally.
>
> Becky Saenz, MD
> Assistant Professor
> University of MS Medical Center
> Department of Family Medicine
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