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Symptoms of disease - pain in the nipple

Very often, after giving birth to a baby, my mother is faced with the fact that breastfeeding gives painful sensations in nipple. Taking this for granted, the mother heroically stand. However, endure the pain when feeding is impossible.

Firstly, attachment to the breast should be useful for both parties of the process of joy and peace - way nature intended, without the human race is hardly existed for a long time. But what kind of joy you can say, if the mother has breast the baby, in the literal sense of the word, gritting his teeth against the pain in nipple.

Secondly, the pain when feeding is almost always a signal that there are errors in the organization of feeding. For a child it is fraught with insufficient food (and as a consequence, the transition to other types of breastfeeding) for the mother's health problems (like the crack of breasts, and inadequate emptying of the breast may under adverse circumstances lead to mastitis).

Which diseases there is pain in the nipple

For the continuation of full breastfeeding need to find the cause of the pain in nipple chest and eliminate it. This is what is most often found in the first days and weeks after birth from mothers, which feeding causes pain.

1. Improper attachment to the breast and/or improper posture at feeding.
Possible variants:
sponges of the child involved inside instead of lying on his chest;
- poor support for the chest and/or the baby's head in the first days, because of what the baby is difficult to hold the breast in the correct position;
- pose of «cross-cradle», which is used later 1-2 weeks after childbirth (the position head of child is not the elbow of the hand, and on the palms of the opposite of mother's hands, that can lead to a slide on the breast, because of the growing head becomes difficult to keep on hand);
- the child gradually slide down on the breast and sucking only the after an initial good stimulation;
- mother makes a finger «dimple» on his chest for the child - tit in mouth is shifting from the optimum position and becomes more vulnerable;
- not very good support breasts underneath, causing to it's weight pressing on the lower lip of the child, as a result of breast in mouth is wrong.

2. The technique of suckling changed because of the use of artificial breast (including the dummy).

3. Resulting from the breast milk lingers near the skin fetish (for example, if the wear wet pads for breast) and softens the skin.

If you are faced with something like that, try to correct obstetric (refuse of substitutes for breast nipples; change the care of the chest) and if it does not self - refer to the help of the consultant on breastfeeding.

There is, perhaps, the only case when the pain breast fed with normal and natural. It usually appears on the second day in the hospital. The pain is felt, when the child grasps the chest, but if the attachment to the breast correct, it is taking place during suckling. The cause of these painful sensations in that at nipple there is a change of epithelium - the beginning of a more rough skin, after which the pain disappears. This usually happens through a maximum of 1 week.

However, it happens so, that the pain persists longer, and after the attachment to the breast fixed, or occur suddenly, after a few months of successful feeding. The reasons for this may be, either by the child, as well as from the mother.

Causes of pain in nipple breast from mother's side
1. Lactostasis or mastitis, breast engorgement, due to which it is difficult to correctly capture.
2. Anomalies fetish (such as indrawn, depressed, with deep folds, skin growths of the nipple, wart in the field of breast nipples).
3. Highly sensitive Breasts (usually observed before pregnancy).
4. Dry skin fetish and areola because of frequent washing with tap water and soap. In addition, not yet completely forgotten tips lubricate Breasts diamond-green - attention, you cannot do it! It is also possible to areola too little Montgomery glands, which produce natural lubrication for fetish.
5. Mother combed itchy or dry skin fetish and damaged it.
6. Skin is damaged too coarse towel or too diligent friction during washing, continuous extension of breasts during pregnancy.
7. Too strong tides of milk (may be painful for some of the mothers).
8. Sleep on his stomach, chest when much is wrinkled.
9. Surgery of the breast or in the field fetish (even at a time when the mother herself was still an infant).
10. The trauma of breast nipples or Breasts (elbow of the child, a ball, a broom handle, etc.).
11. The use of bad adjacent to the chest or unregulated pumping (too strong vacuum, when using pear models - long cling to his chest).

Other causes of pain in the breast nipple

1. The wrong and the wrong underwear - seam bra (especially a new one) or lace finishing annoying breast; too tight bra or the small size of the cups.
2. Allergic reactions:
- to paint or finish fabrics (wash new things before you wear);
- to replace funds for washing (detergents, fabric softener, bleach, etc.);
- the remnants of detergents (clothing bad rinse);
- to replace the products of personal hygiene (especially aerosol deodorants);
- the ointments, creams or other drugs, which my mother used to treat breast, or is a reaction to erase/flushing them with breast feeding;
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3. Milk bubble - bubble on the nipple, resulting from a blockage of the output holes on the nipple.
4. Candidal infection - in these cases, the tenderness of breasts for a long time does not pass. Treatment should appoint a doctor. Similar to fungal infection of the lesions of dermatitis, eczema, disease Reynolds (narrowing of blood vessels in the extremities because of the cold or stress).
5. Vasospasm fetish (violation of the blood supply in the nipple due to spasm of the blood vessels).
6. Nerve damage fetish (from an injury, or cut).
7. Psoriasis.
8. Herpes.
9. Impetigo.
10. Fibromyalgia (chronic pain in the muscles and soft tissues around joints).
11. The Paget's disease is a type of cancer, its manifestations look like eczema, but there is bleeding from the fetish. If there is suspicion on it, mom need to immediately contact a physician.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the nipple

• Mammologist
• Dermatologist
• Oncologist

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