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Filter by:Lactation is the instinct of almost all mammals, including human beings. With the development of human society, the function of lactation has gradually deviated from nature instinct. Breastfeeding related industries, such as milk bottles, formula and breast pumps, have formed a vast consumer market, leading to a transition from breastfeeding mothers' individual instinct to the social division of labor. Previous studies found that the incidence of lactational mastitis remains largely unchanged post World War II with some reporting an increase, suggesting the hazards of lactational mastitis still exist under the background of social division of labor. Breast milk contains ingredients that improve the immunity of newborns. By affecting mothers' breastfeeding, lactational mastitis pose a hazard for newborns, increasing the chances of developing respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. For breastfeeding mothers, severe mastitis may develop into breast abscess due to improper treatment in the early stage. In addition to antibiotic treatment, incision, drainage and even surgery may be required. These potentially increase the risk of developing postpartum depression, type II diabetes, breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Compared with other mammals, humans and cows have a higher incidence of lactational mastitis, indicating that human intervention in breastfeeding may be the cause of the high incidence. On the other hand, as a result of walking upright, humans' hands are liberated, forming complex and diverse breastfeeding position. According to the Sakra World Hospital, these positions are classified into eight types: cradle, cross cradle, supine, football, Australian hold, inverted lateral, lateral cradle, and lateral. The pilot study demonstrated that different breastfeeding positions are closed related to the occurrence of lactational mastitis, and to the location of mastitis. Assuming that the baby's sucking factors remain the same, there must be differences in the milk drainage in different breastfeeding positions under the influence of gravity. Researchist speculate that breastfeeding women who opt to a position that cause an anti-gravitational expulsion of milk are more likely to develop lactational mastitis. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how the scientific guidance on the gravitationally assisted breastfeeding positions will reduce the occurrence of mastitis.
This study will investigate whether Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) is effective in treating recurrent mastitis without the use of antibiotics and if it helps in preventing future recurrence of mastitis in individuals who have had multiple occurrences of mastitis.
Nonpuerperal mastitis (NPM), mainly including Plasma cell mastitis (PCM) and Granulomatous mastitis (GM), which clinical presentation is an accessible and painful breast mass accompanied by skin redness and swelling, nipple retraction and fistula formation . Much progress has been made in exploring the etiology and pathogenesis of NPM, while the exact etiology remains unknown, NPM is thought to arise from interactions between genetic susceptibility factors, epigenetic effects, and various environmental factors. While microbiota as an environment factor to some inflammatory and autoimmune diseases accept widespread attention, if gut microbiota also as a risk factor for NPM, it is worthy to be considered.
Breastfeeding is the optimal feeding for infants. WHO currently promotes breastfeeding and recommends it to be exclusive until the baby is 6 months old. Breastfeeding has a positive impact on both the mother's and the infant's health and is directly associated with the decrease in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and inflammatory and infectious diseases. Currently, in Spain, only 39% of infants at 6 months are breastfed. The factors that influence the abandonment of breastfeeding are returning to work, the sensation of hypogalactia, problems to breastfeed, and breast complications, like mastitis, being the pain its main cause. Recent studies have associated pain while breastfeeding with mammary gland inflammation (mastitis) caused by dysbiosis. In order to increase breastfeeding rates, it is necessary to find factors related to the progression of mastitis in breastfeeding women. In this context, the discovery of predictive biomarkers based on metabolic markers is key to act before or at the beginning of the progression of mastitis and thus reduce the rates of abandonment of breastfeeding due to pain. The present project aims to identify and validate metabolic biomarkers capable of predicting mastitis. For this purpose, a prospective observational case-control hypothesis-free study will be carried out in order to identify and validate biomarkers of mastitis in breastfeeding women. The study will be performed in two phases: the discovery of the possible biomarkers and the validation of the biomarkers. Breast milk will be collected at the beginning of the study and when women present symptoms compatible with mastitis. The presence or not of mastitis will be confirmed with a milk culture. Milk samples will be analyzed using non-targeted metabolomics approach. Using multivariate statistical models, the potential metabolites capable of discriminating the presence of mastitis in maternal milk will be identified. Later, these potential markers will be validated in independent samples.
Granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM) belongs to a group of benign diseases, which is mainly treated with glucocorticoids and surgical treatment. Nowadays, in China, surgical treatment has gradually become the mainstream, but the timing and the extent of surgery are still controversial, and different literatures report that the recurrence rate after surgery is 20-50%. Empirical lesion resection is generally used. We believe that the main reason for the high recurrence rate is the incomplete removal of the breast lesions. Because GLM is often characterized with microabscesses formation, empirical resection is likely to have residual lesions that are not visible to the naked eye. In order to reduce the postoperative recurrence rate and protect the breast appearance as much as possible, we propose a surgical plan : granulomatous lobular mastitis "lesion removal + whole breast exploration and flushing + one-stage microplastic surgery". The purpose of this study was to compare this surgical scheme of granulomatous lobular mastitis with existing surgical schemes, and to compare the overall benefits of the two for patients with GLM. We aim to protect the breast appearance on the premise of low recurrence, improve the quality of life of GLM patients, and standardize GLM surgical schemes.
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare, benign inflammatory breast disease that mimics malignancy owing to its features of appearance.In our research, we intended to compare the efficiency of local (intralesional) steroid administration with systemic (peroral) steroid. A total of 36 patients who had been histopathologically diagnosed with IGM and whose other factors had been microbiologically excluded were included in the study. The patients were randomized into two sub-groups that would be treated with systemic and local steroids. Of the patients, 19 were administered with 0.5-1 mg/kg/day peroral systemic steroid, and 17 were administered with 40-200 mg/ml intralesional local steroid regarding the severity of the lesion. All patients were evaluated through physical examination one week after the completion of the treatment. Subsequently, the follow-up of the patients was performed thorough physical examination and ultrasonography and/or magnetic resonance imaging at the 1st, 3rd, and 6th months.
Puerperal mastitis is one of the most commonly reported problems during breastfeeding. Women frequently report breast pain, tenderness, redness, engorgement, fever, malaise, chills, lethargy, sweating, headache, nipple damage and a hot spot on the affected breast. These highly distressing symptoms may severely impact on a woman's daily activities and quality of life and might lead to the premature cessation of exclusive breastfeeding, which may have significant impact on infant health and survival. The role of physical therapy in reducing pregnancy/postpartum-related disorders including breast problems is gaining momentum and importance in obstetrics. However, to date, only low-level evidence has shown positive effects of breast massage, a physical technique, on pain, milk supply and symptom relief in women with breastfeeding problems. This is encouraging, however further research is needed to explore whether physical therapy is effective to reduce symptoms of puerperal mastitis. The investigators will conduct a prospective, assessor blinded single-center randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of an individualized physical therapy program with therapeutic ultrasound, education and massage for patients with puerperal mastitis, compared to patients receiving usual obstetric care and sham ultrasound treatment.
Granulomatous mastitis is a rare, chronic, benign inflammatory disease of the breast that plays a role in many varying etiologies, including infectious and non-infectious causes. Etiological reasons were examined in various studies, but neither etiology nor definite criteria for diagnosis were found. Our aim in this study is to examine the role of immunophenotyping in differentiating the etiology of granulomatous mastitis and using it as a prognostic marker.
Granulomatous mastitis is a rare, chronic, benign inflammatory disease of the breast that plays a role in many varying etiologies, including infectious and non-infectious causes. Etiological reasons were examined in various studies, but neither etiology nor definite criteria for diagnosis were found. Our aim in this study is to examine the role of cytokines in differentiating the etiology of granulomatous mastitis and using it as a prognostic marker.
Assessment of incidence, diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis in Assiut university hospital