Sunday, May 3, 2009

Did you know this about mastitis?

Did you know that when a nursing mother develops a mastitis infection the best course of action would be for her to encourage her baby to nurse very frequently on the affected breast?

Decades ago mothers were told to wean their babies if they developed mastitis. But it is now known that frequent nursing on the infected breast actually helps to clear out the milk stasis that is providing the environment for bacterial growth.

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