"...her OB drained what appeared to be a pus-filled nodule on her breast,
but it was filled with milk."

This sounds like a galactocele to me, not a true bacterial infection site
... though the red, tight, painful breast that accompany it may mean this
mothershould be vigilant about milk stasis.  Here is the ABM's most recent
protocol about mastitis:
http://www.bfmed.org/Media/Files/Protocols/2014_Updated_Mastitis6.30.14.pdf

-- 
Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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