Hello doctor! I just gave birth 2 months ago and for almost a week now my upper chest is a bit sore, there is a hard lump the size of an adult finger, it hurts when pressed, I don't have a fever.

Inverted nipples can occur in both men and women, and are often overlooked because they do not affect health. However, inverted nipples can be a sign of many potential problems, especially in pregnant and lactating women.

Blocked milk ducts can occur at any time after giving birth. However, it is most common in the first week. About 15% of breastfeeding women experience breast engorgement, tenderness, and sometimes fever or a hard lump in the milk duct.

Blocked milk ducts and breast abscesses are two very common phenomena in postpartum women and women during breastfeeding. If not treated promptly, blocked milk ducts will lead to breast abscesses, even the formation of fibrous mammary glands and infections.

Nipples come in many shapes – large, small, dark, light, raised, inverted or flat. The reason for inverted nipples is that the milk ducts attached to the nipple are too short. So what to do if your nipples are inverted?

Blocked milk ducts are a phenomenon in which the milk ducts are blocked, the milk cannot flow out, and stagnates in the breasts, causing discomfort, tension, and even pain. Many women also have a fever. Blocked milk ducts make women worry about how to handle them. Should they breastfeed if they have blocked milk ducts?

Benign diseases that can occur in the mammary glands include: fibrocystic breast disease, fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumor, mammary cyst, mastitis and breast abscess... When there are signs of suspicion, the patient needs to go for an early examination to determine the specific mammary gland disease, in order to have the right intervention measures, proactively preventing possible bad complications.

If breast-feeding women have blocked milk ducts and are not detected and treated promptly, they can easily develop mastitis due to blocked milk ducts. Mastitis has typical symptoms such as swelling, heat, redness, breast pain, and more severe cases will have fever.

I went to the doctor and he told me to go to the hospital for a breast abscess. Doctor, please help me quickly.

For some reason, the mother does not have milk to breastfeed her baby or the mother has milk but cannot breastfeed her baby. The doctor will suggest some correct ways, as well as share about common mistakes to help mothers raise their babies more easily.

Currently, breast cancer is quite common among women and causes anxiety for many people. In fact, in addition to breast cancer, there may be some other benign diseases such as fibroadenoma, fibrocystic breast disease, breast abscess, which are not worrisome if detected, diagnosed, and treated early and appropriately.