Cracks in the nipples of the breast appear in women in the first days after birth, especially in those giving birth for the first time. The cause of their appearance are usually:
- insufficient skin care of the breast,
- non-compliance with the rules of breastfeeding.
Cracks in the nipple circle can be formed when the child sucks in very vigorously, due to a bite or abrupt extraction of the nipple from the baby's mouth.
Cracks in the nipple may be superficial or deep. They quickly become infected and become very painful. As a result, feeding is difficult, very painful, and sometimes it even has to be stopped for several days.
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How to treat and cure nipple cracks when feeding
To prevent nipple cracks, one must deal with them during pregnancy.
You should wash your breasts and nipples daily with boiled water and soap, pulling the nipple as much as possible out of its top, rub it with a shaggy towel. After washing, it is useful to wipe the nipples with alcohol or cologne to not only disinfect the skin, but also to blow it out. In case of excessive dryness of the skin of the nipple, hardening and soreness, it is useful to lubricate it with petroleum jelly or cow butter.
Before and after feeding, the nipples should be washed with boric water and wiped with pure alcohol mixed with 30-40 g of glycerin.
If there are small wounds or cracks, 3-4 times a day, the nipples should be wiped with a soft cloth soaked in a cool decoction of birch leaves or chamomile flowers. After feeding the baby, the nipples are smeared with mackerel oil, or boiled vegetable, or yolk of a chicken egg, which must dry well to form a crust.
A woman should ensure that the breasts are not too tightly clamped by a tight bra.
Official medicine: cream, ointment
- For faster healing of the crack, you can treat the nipples with rosehip oil and sea-buckthorn oil, use the spray "Olazole" containing sea buckthorn oil. An excellent effect is provided by the ointments Arnica and Traumeel of the German firm Heel.
- Surface crack is lubricated after feeding with 1% solution of Methylene blue or 2% alcohol solution of Gentianviolet.
- For deep cracks after washing, apply gauze wipes with ointment( penicillin, streptocid or sintomycin).Before the next feeding, you should carefully wash this ointment to prevent it from falling into the child's mouth.
- To reduce pain, apply an ointment with anesthesin.
- Well lubrication of cracks with silver nitrate solution is good.
What to do: folk remedies at home
Cracks in the breast nipples when breastfeeding: how to treat and cure When forming cracks, it is very good to apply a parsley of parsley leaves to the chest.
The poultices from flaxseed are very helpful. Seeds, pour into flour, cook with fresh milk and sugar, then cover the entire breast with a warm poultice.
When cracking the nipples, apply a poultice from the or sage pest to the breast.
Every day grease cracks with iodine tincture or 2 once a day - with celandine juice .Healing will proceed quickly and painlessly.
Related Videos
How to get rid of cracks in the nipples while breastfeeding
On the video channel of Olga Vas.
Reviews:
Fatima : I was helped very much by the cream "Zorka".The cracks were just awful, they healed in three days, the cream, true, for the udder of cows.
Elena Aktau : I myself faced the same problem, the pain was terrible, my son belched blood and horror, at that moment I thought that something was wrong with him, but it was all from my chest. Mazal "Kyzyl May"( red oil) and Bepanten. About "Purelan" now, too, I will know, thank you! Now we are a year and three months old. We are still feeding, withstood everything! And now I do not know how to finish feeding. It's time already.
Ekaterina Belikova: I have a vicious circle with the feeding of my son. This is 2 children, with a daughter there were no problems with GV, fed up to 1 g 2 months. And now I'm tuned to a long GW.But already in the hospital there were terrible cracks, the baby did not eat up and cried at the chest, and I almost cried for pain during feeding.2 days I did not put the baby and fed the expressed milk, healed nipples with Bepanten. I bought the pads and almost a month coped well. Then there was a terrible lactostasis with a temperature of 40. A kid could hang for an hour on a painful chest and not eat up. Naturally, it began to be doped with a mixture, only then he calmed down and ate. It turned out that he had a short tongue, he could not physically correctly grasp the chest. Now the bridle was cut. But the capture was formed incorrectly. Every application to the chest - new cracks. I feed the expressed milk and a mixture. Milk is small. I hope so to hold on longer.
We treat cracked nipples: how to treat - a miracle remedy!
In the video I share my experience and opinion about nipple cracks during breastfeeding.
Cracks in the nipples when feeding, what to do, the reasons? Ointment from cracks on the nipples of
On the video channel of Natalia Novel. In this video, I'll tell you how to get rid of cracks on the nipples during breastfeeding. When cracks appear on the nipples, the most important question is how to preserve breastfeeding, because it is painful to feed, and the wound only increases. Thus it is necessary to use means which are resolved at thoracal feeding. I fed two children and tell you the problems and how I dealt with them. Also, I'll tell you whether helps pinch and purelane from cracks on the nipples and other alternative means.
Cracks in the nipples when breastfeeding: how to cure
On the video channel of Lyudmila Sharova "Lessons for moms."
This issue is dedicated to the main causes of nipple cracks and how to eliminate them:
- Wrong care of the breasts.
- Breast infection( thrush, infection through the baby).
- Incorrect child grip of the breast.
Erroneous recommendations leading to cracks:
- Wash your chest with a towel for a future mother.
- Frequently wash your chest( before each feeding).
How to treat nipple cracks during breastfeeding
Olga Papsueva's video shows how to treat nipple cracks during breastfeeding. Watch the video. All methods are proven, than to treat and cure cracks on the nipples with folk remedies, treat sea buckthorn oil and cabbage leaves!
Source: YNGorgov Official and folk medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.
