Treatment of mastitis with folk remedies

Mastitis is a common mammary disease, withwhich many women have to face after the birth of the baby.

Traditional medicine for the treatment of mastitis uses antibiotics, the breastmilk is artificially expressed and lactation is inhibited.

In parallel with medicamental techniques, it is customary to use folk remedies for mastitis, which effectively help to bring about recovery.

What is mastitis: symptoms, signs, types ^

Mastitis, or mammary gland is an inflammatory disease of the breast, which is characterized by the following symptoms:

• Painful sensations in the mammary gland during feeding;
• fever, weakness, chills;
• Breast augmentation, palpation of seals.

Mastitis pathogens are pathogens falling into the mammary glands through the nipple cracks. In addition, the development of mastitis is facilitated by insufficient hygiene of the breast and incomplete expression of milk after feeding.

Mastitis in women occurs in the following forms: acute, purulent, lactative( postpartum), non-lactating, serous, destructive, abscessed and infiltrative mastitis.

Mastitis in a nursing mother is a common pathology that not only causes a lot of problems for a woman, but also prevents further feeding of the baby. Treatment of mastitis with folk remedies greatly facilitates the patient's condition and helps to speed up recovery. In addition, they are absolutely safe for women's health, as they consist of plant components of natural origin.

Treatment of mastitis at home involves the use of compresses, rubs and rinses of the breast area and the use of certain anti-inflammatory medicinal decoctions.

Treatment of mastitis in women

Most often, mastitis occurs during breastfeeding, when a woman violates the rules of hygiene and does not express the remaining milk from the breast sufficiently.

Treatment of mastitis during breastfeeding is appointed after the doctor makes an examination, diagnoses the form of the disease, prescribes medications and certain recommendations.

Procedures for treatment of mastitis at home, primarily consist of the suspension of breastfeeding, the use of a breast pump for artificial expression and providing an elevated position of the patient's chest.

Mastitis of the breast during feeding often affects women who first acquired a baby. However, these problems can be avoided if the young mother will carry out the appropriate procedures on time.

Mastitis: treatment at home with folk remedies ^

Purulent mastitis: treatment

• Pumpkin flesh cut into small pieces, pour milk and cook it until thick. In a warm form, the pulp should be put in two-layer gauze and fastened on the chest for two hours.
• Baked onion, mixed with linseed oil and put on chest for a couple of hours.

Acute mastitis: treatment

• Fresh cabbage leaf rinse well, discard with its wooden hammer its inner side until the appearance of juice. With a broken side, attach the leaf to your chest, fix it and leave it till morning. Proceed this procedure every evening until the complete disappearance of mastitis.
• Dried sweet potato grass in a glass, fill it in half, then pour boiling water and insist half an hour. In warm tincture, moisten the towel and apply to the breast for 20 minutes. Such compresses are desirable to be carried out several times a day.

Lactation mastitis: treatment with

• Mix linseed or olive oil with potato starch until a thick mixture is obtained, then put it on the chest and bandage with a bandage. Keep this compress should be about two hours.
• Take st.l.buds, walnut leaves, St. John's wort, burdock roots and lilac. In the amount of art. Spoon the collection in a glass, add water and boil a minute. After the broth has an hour, it should be taken three tablespoons.every day three times. In addition, the decoction can be used as a washing of the breast.

Non-lactational mastitis: treatment

• Combine crushed licorice root( 10 g) and tangerine crusts( 50 grams), after which you should pour them three cups of boiling water for an hour, then use during the day.
• Badger fat lightly warm and lubricate the area of ​​the nipples with halos.

Serous mastitis: treatment with

• Apply a warm camphor oil on a clean cloth, attach to the chest and hold for an hour.
• Before going to bed, attach to the breast a battered clean sheet of burdock or coltsfoot, previously bathed in boiling water.

Treatment of mastitis with salt

• Heat the glass of water to 50 degrees, then add st.l.salt and dissolve. In a cotton rag, cut the area under the nipples, then soak it in saline and attach to the chest, placing a film on top and a warm bandage.
• Keep the salt compress until it cools.

Treatment of mastitis with herbs

• Place in 1.5 liters of boiling water st.l.sage, two tablespoonsCurrant leaves, two tablespoons. St. John's Wort and three tablespoons. Calendula., then place the collection on a fire and boil for 10 minutes.
• After the broth is infused for two hours, it should be filtered and taken up to a meal three times a day before meals.

Prevention and useful advice on how to prevent the formation of mastitis ^

After the birth of a child, women, especially breastfeeding, should carefully and rigorously adhere to the following preventive procedures that can significantly reduce the risk of mastitis:

• Strictly observe personal hygiene before and after feeding. Before feeding the baby, and also after the end of feeding, it is necessary to rinse the breast with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, herbal decoction or other disinfectant and antimicrobial solutions;
• Be sure to express the milk left after feeding;
• Avoid injury to nipples, halos and mammary glands.
• To prevent nipple cracks should be treated daily with their cosmetic vaseline or rosehip oil.