Clogged milk rays

Clogged milk rays's disease overview

What is

What is the milk ray?

Breast milk is produced from the milk cysts, according to the pipes pouring into the sinus containing milk at the back of the areola, under the effect of sucking the baby's sucking, the milk will flow out. However, for some reason, the narrow pipe heart will not be able to escape. The clogged place will gradually form a hard lump due to the phenomenon of freezing milk. Meanwhile, the milk continues to be secreted, causing the tubes to be increasingly stretched. This phenomenon causes compression of other milk pipes, creating a pathological circle, making the milk clogging worse.

This phenomenon usually occurs in women in the early days after birth and during breastfeeding. Clogging of postpartum milk can make breastfeeding as well as pumping milk to store many difficulties and pain. If the milk rays are blocked in time, it can lead to more serious problems such as pus-inflammatory milk glands that cause mammary gland inflammation, abscess, gradually becoming fibrous bands or fibrosis. mammary fibroids. In addition, clogged milk rays also cause the process of creating milk to be affected, gradually the mother has less milk or will lose milk.

Causes of Clogged milk rays's disease

There are many causes of milk clogging in breastfeeding women, such as:

  • Just given birth: Some mothers encounter the condition of postpartum milk rays. The breast contains a lot of milk but still cannot flow out to breastfeed.

    • Excess breast milk: Most of the cases, the cause of clogging of milk rays is due to excess breast milk in the breast because the baby does not suck it all or you do not smoke the milk part. Excess after the baby has sucked full, leading to the remaining milk, causing congestion.

  • Pressure -resistant breasts: Wearing a tight bra, tight shirt or carrying a baby sling in front of the chest sometimes also causes clogged milk rays. In addition, lying on your stomach when sleeping and practicing sports also causes the same situation.
  • Less pump out: If you have little breast pump or not out of milk, you are more likely to encounter clogging of milk. The exhaust force of the machine cannot suck out the milk out can also be the cause of you clogged.
  • The baby caught the mother's breast incorrectly: When the baby sucked the breast incorrectly, he would not be able to suck enough breast milk. Therefore, the remaining milk in the breast is the cause of the clogged milk.
  • Moms do not breastfeed regularly: If the baby does not breastfeed regularly or not pumping out for about 5 hours to 1 day, it will cause a clogging of milk rays
  • stress: Stress will slow down the production of hormone oxytocin is responsible for stimulating breast milk breast.

    • Symptoms of Clogged milk rays's disease

    Whether you are in the early stages of breastfeeding or breastfeeding for a while, clogged milk rays may occur at any time. You can pay attention to some signs that you are having milk ray :

  • Not secreted or secreted very little, even if the mother actively milking
  • The chest is tense and bigger than normal, the level of stiffness is getting bigger and bigger, the feeling of pain
  • clogged milk into a hard clump. When touching the breast, she felt one or more hard spots
  • Red swollen chest
  • Sometimes clogged milk causes fever

    • The harmful effects of milk rays?

    Timely intervention and treatment will lead to the situation:

  • Little or not breastfeeding
  • Brand inflammation, mammary abscess, gradually becoming fibrosis or fibroids

    • Mothers are prone to postpartum depression because of the unable to breastfeeding due to milk rays

    Prevention of Clogged milk rays's disease

  • should breastfeed as soon as possible immediately after birth.
  • breastfeeding on both sides. Suck all the milk on one side and then move to the other breast. In case the baby's mother has a lot of milk and the baby does not finish, after the baby is full, it must be pumped with excess milk, to avoid stagnation.
  • Colostrum is very dense, easy to cause clogging, so before and after breastfeeding should press the breast gently to avoid freezing milk.
  • Keep the nipple clean after breastfeeding by cleaning with boiled water.
  • Keep good oral hygiene during breastfeeding. Oral infections are a favorable condition for breast infections on the basis of an existing obstruction
  • Use bra or spacious, comfortable clothes
  • drink plenty of water
  • Adequate rest, if possible, apply some meditation or yoga exercises, practice sports
  • Try to keep the most fun and optimistic spirit.

    • Diagnostic measures for Clogged milk rays's disease

    The baby's mother will be the first to discover the signs (symptoms) of the disease. So the understanding of the disease is essential, this can help your baby's mother diagnose and conduct early self -treatment. When the breast is discovered, there are signs of larger tension than normal and increasing, paying attention: Is the breast surface red and touching pain? (It is necessary to compare the two parties to see the difference, but sometimes both sides have the same but this case is less common and if it is often asymmetrical). Do you feel fever or not?

    Milk blockage can be a sign of mastitis and should be treated with antibiotics if infected. The doctor may appoint an ultrasound to identify clogged milk areas, which will offer an effective intervention to help clear the milk rays. 

    Clogged milk rays's disease treatments

    When clogged with milk, the first thing that most mothers often do is to stop breastfeeding to prevent pain. However, this is completely wrong. The effective way to treat milk rays is to maintain breastfeeding. Regular breastfed babies will help this condition greatly reduce or you can also use the breast pump to clear the clogged milk rays.

    Milk blockage treatment:

    warm compresses

  • Helps the milk where it is clogged.
  • Do not apply too hot will cause skin burning
  • How to apply warm compresses:
  • Put hot water in a bottle, wrap around with a moderate thin towel, apply it on the face of the arm to feel hot, avoid burns, catch, catch The head rolled up to the clogged place.
  • Use a warm towel to cover up
  • Bathe with warm water: Soak and the entire chest into a warm water tank, soaked and massaged the chest.

    • Massage

  • Gentle massage but must create a solid force relative to the blocked place, massage from the site of the nipple.
  • Use 2 palms to gently massage 2 breasts (about 30 seconds). Use 5 fingers to the areola.
  • Massage time:
  • Before breastfeeding/suction

    • While breastfeeding/suction

  • After breastfeeding/sucking

    • Breast drum

  • Change many breastfeeding postures

    • Each baby's feeding position will have the strongest attraction on different milk rays. So for babies to breastfeed directly, mothers can change many breastfeeding positions. Some mothers only need to change the breastfeeding position to be able to clear the milk.

  • Little posture, caught breasts correctly

    • breastfeeding first

    regular feeding: every 2 hours

    Sucking on the first pain

  • Manual milking

    • Use clogged milk massage hands, the lumpy milk bags inside will gradually dissolve and squeeze the milk will flow out. This method will be very effective for mildly clogged milk clogged.

  • Use a breast pump:

    • After breastfeeding, the mother will use a breast pump

    If the mother does not breastfeed directly, it will conduct breast pump

    When using a breast pump to suck, it is best to use electric breast pump, strong suction.

    Support for treatment:

  • Pain relievers

    • rest

  • Diet: Drink plenty of water, and add foods that can enhance resistance.

    • There is also a number of physical methods of milk ray treatment including:

  • multi -frequency ultrasonic waves combined with infrared mat
  • Use pulse current

    • This is an effective treatment, with many advantages such as:

  • Quickly melt the hard lumps caused by clogged milk glands, clogged milk and clumps
  • No damage to milk glands and other normal milk duct systems.

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