Dear Friends:
    I have permission of the poster to pose this  situation to you. What do 
you all think?
 
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My four month old boy has mastitis, or appears to have had mastitis  which
then morphed into an absess on his areola just below the nipple. It  started
as a small bump deep in the chest wall, and over a few weeks it got  bigger.
Last week it began to swell the breast area a bit, no redness, and  this
weekend it became a small red lump. By today it was a huge blister  with
obvious pus behind it so off we trotted to the doctor. They decided to  lance 
it, and drained several tablespoons of infected fluid out. I have a  standing 
script for antibiotics if it starts looking worse, otherwise I am  waiting it 
out. They hadn't ever seen this before.
Has anyone else had this  happen with their kid or someone elses?? Seemed
bizarre to  me.

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Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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