What is Mastitis? It is essentially an infection of
breast tissue, which may result in swelling, pain, redness, and warmth in the breast. Sometimes the breast
inflammation are due to problems associated with breast feeding, in which
case it is termed ‘lactation mastitis‘. So keep this in mind, milk, breasts… if
you are breast feeding, it’s more commonly the explanation than anything more
serious. Mastitis is usually caused by an over-supply of breast milk.
There is a very serious and aggressive form of breast cancer
called ‘inflammatory breast cancer‘ which has similar symptoms to
mastitis. For this reason, the condition is taken quite seriously, and if
symptoms are not resolved with five weeks, a full investigation and breast
examination for breast cancer should be initiated.
Mastitis is an infection and completely unrelated to
a genetic disease like breast cancer. Alternate and related terms include subareolar abscess, duct ectasia,
periductal inflammation-periductal mastitis, Zuska’s disease, comedo
mastitis, mastitis obliterans, plasma cell mastitis, and cholesterol granuloma.
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis, is an uncommon chronic
inflammatory breast lesion which is clinically very similar to
breast cancer, often forms a palpable breast mass, and may even resemble breast
carcinoma on an mammogram.
Simple mastitis is usually treated with antibiotics,
and with self-help techniques for
emptying the breast of milk more frequently and fully.
What are mastitis symptoms? Breast tenderness, redness,
enlargement. Avoid letting your breasts become overly full. Mastitis usually
starts as a painful area in one breast.
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