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Mastitis symptoms

If nursing is going well for you but then you begin to develop strange symptoms such as severe headache, fever, chills and shooting pains in your breast you may be suffering the onset of mastitis where the milk gland in the breast gets infected. If this happens, contact the lactation specialist at your hospital or your OBGYN immediately. Severe infections can be dangerous during recovery. By taking their advice you may reduce the mastitis or even be rid of it before it becomes dangerous.

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