title: Severe lactational mastitis: particularities from admission.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify characteristics of women who have suffered severe lactational mastitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  a descriptive, retrospective, documentary, quantitative study was performed. Data were collected from patient records of 114 hospitalized women from January of 2009 to December of 2013. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  a higher percentage of severe lactational mastitis was found in young, primiparous women who had completed high school, who had no partner, and did not have a job; 96.5% of women had breast complications before admission and remained hospitalized an average of 4.4 days; at discharge, 23.7% of women had weaned their infants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  this study showed that severe lactational mastitis can cause great harm to the woman and the baby.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação Enfermagem em Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alecssandra de Fátima Silva
authors.initials: Ade F
authors.lastname: Viduedo
authors.affiliation: Curso de Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana Rocha de Carvalho
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Leite
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana Cristina dos Santos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.affiliation: Programa de Aleitamento Materno, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia Cristina Guerreiro
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: dos Reis
authors.affiliation: Curso de Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Flávia Azevedo
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gomes-Sponholz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007774:Lactation; D008413:Mastitis / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult