Statistically, more than a half of young mothers know firsthand what is stagnation of milk or laktostaz. Knowing the reasons of a laktostaz and methods of fight against it, itself can facilitate life significantly.
The heavy crowded breast – the first sign of stagnation of milk. If in time not to take a measure, painful feelings in breasts, then consolidations and, at last, temperature will appear at first. At this stage laktostaz passes into mastitis.
Reasons of a laktostaz
Stagnation arises if in any part of a breast there is no movement of milk. The reasons of this phenomenon are various, most often it is a long break between feedings. Milk literally stands in a breast, and the dairy stopper is formed. An inconvenient pose during feeding, a close bra can also become the reason of a laktostaz.
One more frequent reason – councils of elderly midwifes and grandmothers. It was accepted to feed children of times at 3 o'clock about 20-30 years ago, and after each feeding to decant milk to devastation of a breast. Mothers of present mothers strictly followed advice and now pass on the experience to daughters. But in their case the decantation was need, with a three-hour break between feedings if in each feeding to give only one breast, it turns out that each breast is devastated time at 6 o'clock. And if at the same time not to decant milk, there was quite real chance to get mastitis. But now mothers feed kids on demand, and additional decantations are not necessary at all, milk is developed in response to stimulation of a breast, it is exactly so much how many it is necessary for the kid. And if you decant milk, your organism decides that the kid lacks food, and begins to develop even more milk. The vicious circle turns out: the more milk, the more mom decants, and the more decants – the more milk.
How to cope with laktostazy?
As soon as you suspected stagnation of milk of a breast, it is necessary to begin to offer this breast to the kid more often. Feeding on demand means that not only the kid, but also mom can demand. If the child sleeps, and the breast at you swelled and hurts, it is not necessary to suffer heroically: softly, without trying to wake, offer a breast to the child – many kids with pleasure suck a breast, without waking up. It is necessary to remember that most effectively milk is exhausted from that area where the chin of the kid is directed. If, for example, stagnation of milk arose an armpit, try to feed the child from under a hand. At a laktostaza it is necessary to feed more often than usually, it is better to put all child to bed together with himself, for full night feedings. Most often these measures happen enough to cope with stagnation, but sometimes nevertheless additional decantation is required. Before it take a warm shower or apply a hot towel to a breast – heat will provoke outflow of milk. Massage the place of stagnation in the direction of the movement of milk, from the breast basis to a nipple. Decant milk before simplification of painful symptoms then for 5 minutes apply to a breast a cold compress for removal of hypostasis. After decantation it is the best of all to feed the child from this breast, the kid will perfectly manage to rassosat the stagnation rest. If the measures given above do not help you or temperature rose, laktostaz threatens to pass into mastitis. If temperature keeps more than a day – immediately see a doctor, the gynecologist or the mammologist. To you will appoint physiotreatment, and, perhaps, antibiotics, and it is possible to pick up the medicines compatible to breastfeeding. Anyway, if not to start process, everything will be as it should be.