Breast Pain - Mastitis, Plugged Ducts, Engorgement

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LLL Sources

FAQs:	› Breast pain/mastitis › Engorgement › Recurrent mastitis › Pain during letdown
Articles from New Beginnings and Leaven:
...on plugged ducts/mastitis:	› Dealing with a Plugged Duct or Mastitis › Plugged Ducts › Mastitis--Plugged Ducts and Infections
...on engorgement:	› Perspectives on Engorgement › Too Swollen to Latch On? Try Reverse Pressure Softening First

Non-LLL Sources

Kellymom:	› Engorgement › Engorgement Help: Reverse Pressure Softening › Plugged Ducts and Mastitis (side-by-side comparison of symptoms) › Lecithin treatment for recurrent plugged ducts › Breast abscess
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine:	› Engorgement protocol (pdf) › Mastitis protocol (pdf)

Tagged Forum Threads

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All tagged breast pain threads:	breast pain
Engorgement:	engorgement engorgement at night engorgement on one side latch problems from engorgement milk coming in pumping and oversupply
Plugged ducts:	plugged ducts recurring plugged ducts lump in breast
Mastitis (breast infection):	mastitis recurring mastitis
Other types of breast pain:	breast abscess pain during pumping pain in armpit painful letdown
Possible contributing factors:	abrupt weaning block feeding breast surgery lump in breast milk coming in nursing strike oversupply pump weaning pumping and oversupply refusing to nurse sleepy baby supply regulating weaning

Related Resource Topics

› Latch and Positioning
› Nipple Pain/Soreness
› Oversupply/Overactive Letdown
› Thrush