Sporadic puerperal mastitis. An infection that need not interrupt lactation.
Sporadic (nonepidemic) acute puerperal mastitis was diagnosed 65 times over a period of 26 months in 2.5% of mothers who elected to nurse their infants. Staphylococcus auereus was cultured from the milk of 23 of 48 infected breasts, but from only one breast of 19 normal mothers. Forty-one women with mastitis continued to nurse without difficulty for an average of 13 weeks, although mastitis recurred in four women. Three breast abscesses resulted from the 65 infections (4.6%).
D000038:Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D001940:Breast / Q000382:microbiology; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008413:Mastitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000382:microbiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012008:Recurrence; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification