I have a bleb on my nipple. How do I get rid?

[StellaLuna65]

I am breastfeeding and have just developed a bleb on my nipple. It's SO painful. Not had one before and no idea why it has appeared now. Can't even feed on the other side as I can't produce milk from my right boob!

Any tips on how to get rid?

By bleb do you mean blocked duct? If so have a warm shower (I know. In this heat!) massage from outside of breast in towards nipple a few times and hand express until it clears.

Ps if you can bear to you need to keep feeding from that side to clear it fully.

It's more like a blister on my nipple.

I live in NE England and we call blisters blebs...is this what it is OP?

Breast pump. Pump through the pain and massage as you go.

Exactly right Gatekeeper!

Oh I feel your pain! I had one at about 3 weeks.

Hot shower on the affected area and try and massage/express from that area. Also I know it sounds gross but also in the shower I’d scratch the surface with my nail to try and shift it.

Try changing positions when feeding from that side.

I can't see how using a pump and massaging would help 😥

Could be thrush. Has your baby got any white on the tongue? Do try to keep feeding a bit on that side.

My son is nearly 9 months. Thought I was out of the woods re painful breastfeeding!

Not that I can see. I think it's because it's so warm and he's been feeding like crazy.

Sorry I thought it was a blocked duct.

Heat up a needle for 10 minutes in boiling water (or buy a sterile needle) and let it cool pierce the bleb and make an escape route for it with the needle. Then feed, feed, feed. I was plagued by the feckers once teething started. Agony.

I got a few of these, the pain is astonishing. As pp, either scratched with fingernail &s then fed or once I picked the top off with a sterile needle then fed. The clot popped out with feeding, baby spat it out after, relief!!!!

Is it not a blocked duct?

Oh no lazy! My son just got his first tooth! Tell me this isn't the start of something awful 😅

Epsom salts bath in a haakaa pump is supposed to be good. Get the multimam compresses if you can, if there's a blockage spend about 10 mins in the shower and geeeently twist the nipple clockwise/anticlockwise, this cleared the blockage for me and then the bleb went as there was no bad pressure point in the nipple during feeding. Got this at 6 and 18 months when I thought I was well out of the woods re problems!

The pain is awful it takes your breath away when they latch on.

I just googled and kellymom have a lot of good advice which might be helpful.

DS has TT and lip tie apparently they are common with lip ties during teething. Who knew?

A bleb is another name for a blocked milk duct. Massaging it out and pumping are recognised and normal ways to solve it, as are continuing to feed through it. There’s will be a sort of milk clot blocking the duct that needs pushing out, all these methods will do that.

I've heard gritting your teeth and scrubbing it with a wet flannel is the way to go, not sure I could do it myself though 😖

I got these a few times. I took a sterile needle and carefully side scraped it across the bleb to remove the top layer of skin, the relief was instant and amazing!

Careylisa you described that so much better than I did. Any yes to the relief, beautiful relief.

Sorry not much advice as it was well over 10 years ago that I last fed a baby and I only came on here as I didn’t know what a Bleb was !

However, one solution I found for a blocked duct was to get on all fours so your nipples are facing the floor
( hopefully ) then massage / stroke gently towards the nipple. Brushing the area towards the nipple with wide tooth comb also weirdly helped.