Mastitis - to feed or not to feed? Advice needed asap please

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I have the beginnings of mastitis, have antibiotics for it, wondering if I should be feeding DS from that breast? Or just expressing? If expressing, do I chuck the milk? GP didn't seem too sure, said it was up to me
Advice appreciated asap please, as the boob's getting full!

yes, feed, feed, feed! tis the best thing for it

i tried to feed but dd would not latch as boob was too full. expressing worked for me. cant remember if i dumped it. savoy cabbage also worked....
hope someone with more help comes along

hi ,i had mastitis too,i did both,breastfeed and express because thats what my doc recommended and the baby had no problems with the milk,my doc told me that it was the breast with a problem not the milk and when i breastfed it seemed to make the pain less,hope you get better soon,,

feed him. if he doesn't sufficiently soften/drain the breast, you can express, but in the first instance feed feed feed.

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def no prob baby having the milk

Feed! You may need to try a different position if it is uncomfortable, but carry on feeding as normal.

no need to chuck the milk..unless you want to or you think your baby is not happy with it...

Shocking that the GP didn't know - and didn't know that not breastfeeding is the very last thing you should do :(

There's a good leaflet at www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk which you could print out and let your GP read.

I was told by my dr to express and throw the milk but the health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor I saw the following few days were horrified at this and told me to keep feeding off that side.

Apparently the taste can change slightly and some
babies can reject it so I guess in this case you'd need to express and throw it?!

Hope that helps, I feel for you, mastitis really knocked me for six.

Thank you all :)
Feeding actually takes some of the pain away, so shall continue :)
In defense of GP, he said I could bf or express, whichever was easiest and least painful. He certainly wasn't advising me to leave the boob full!

I've had it recently - I just fed from the affected side as much as possible, massaged while I was feeding, took warm baths and paracetamol - it went in a couple of days though I did feel rubbish and headachey for about 3 - hope you feel better soon.

I hadn't realised how unwell it would make me feel - fluey, headachey, feverish ... :-(
Paracetamol helps a lot, GP said to wait 24 hours before getting antibiotics as it may have resolved on its own.