Does this blocked duct story sound like you?

How a Blocked Duct develops.

I want to tell you a blocked duct story of a lady from Kew I saw in the clinic. She’s a new mum, who’s breastfeeding her baby pretty well. She feels the latch is comfortable and has good supply and regular feeding routine.

She has been feeling a bit run down in the past few days, but just figured that this was motherhood so she better just get used to it. But she also noticed that her breasts were a bit lumpy, but there had been lumps coming and going but seems to be increasing to feeling a bigger lump in one specific area of the right breast. The skin was a light pink shade and she was feeling a bit off, not terrible but not the best.

She had no fever, no sweats, no chills, and no real aches and pains. So this doesn’t sound like mastitis.

What should you do for Blocked ducts

 Antibiotics are for mastitis, aren’t they? And you don’t have mastitis! So what else can be useful when you have this situation developing in the breast. It’s often painful and uncomfortable to feed from but you know you need to consistently remove milk from the breast.

Here’s what happens with a blocked duct. And please pay attention to what I’m saying because many health professionals get breast health conditions wrong but you can trust us one-hundred percent!

Think of a child’s arm floaty. I know that sounds strange but think about when you blow one up. It inflates both outwards and inwards (to squeeze around the child’s arm). This is what happens with a blocked duct. The actual walls of the floaty swell up and that blocks off the milk flow. It is NOT a milk plug that causes a blocked duct. The plug often seen as thickened milk when the blockage clears, developed behind the swollen walls when it was sitting and waiting for the path to re-open.

The absolute key to a blocked is to reduce inflammation.

How do we treat a blocked duct

Lucky for you, we are here with the knowledge and skill to show you exactly how and what to do to clear your blocked duct. We see many new (and not so new) mums struggling with breast congestion issues and we have the benefit of experience you’re going to be relieved by.

Our process treats the lumps and blocked ducts that can develop into mastitis. The ultrasound treatment we use is targeted to the swollen area of your breast to vibrate the inflamed area causing the blocked duct.  This is a great pre-treatment for our skilled massage therapy and gentle breast mobilisation to move the inflammation fluids and lumps through the body’s own drainage system called the lymphatics. 

We work together with you and your team of health care professionals so you can continue to breastfeed your baby for as long as you desire.

Your blocked duct story doesn’t have to mean the end of your breastfeeding!

Want to know what we might be able to do for you?

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