Sentences with word «galactocele»

My OB referred me to a breast surgeon who did not seem to have experience with galactoceles — told me to just stop nursing.

Needle aspiration to remove the contents of fluid - filled cysts and galactoceles does not affect milk production or safety.

A woman with previous breast surgery can get mastitis (infection of the breast tissues), galactocele formation (a milk filled tumor in your breast) and even galactorrhea (lactation that occurs without the occurrence of pregnancy or childbirth).

A 2 cm galactocele.

LEILANI WILDE: When we come back, we're going to learn more about Galactoceles and other infections, and then learn whether or not it is safe to still breastfeed while going through it.

I had never actually heard of a galactocele before, so I did some research and found... View Post

Last week, someone emailed me with the following question: I just had a cyst aspirated and found out I had a galactocele.

There is a risk that a milk - filled cyst (called a galactocele) could develop, but it can be treated with needle drainage (aspiration).

A doctor can drain the galactocele by removing the milky fluid with a needle.

Galactoceles: A galactocele is a cyst filled with milk that's often the result of a blocked milk duct.

Here are some tips for: clogged ducts, mastitis, galactoceles, and general nipple pain.

Breast lumps that are hard, mobile to a degree within the breast and are uniform in size and shape are more often than not the result of a plugged duct, mastitis, an abscess or a galactocele.

There is no reason to stop breastfeeding with a galactocele.

You may need several aspirations as the galactocele may refill with milk.

Galactoceles are localized collections of milk, which form as a result of an obstructed duct.

Just recently, we nursed through a biopsy for a galactocele and Noah is still going strong at 15 months.

(I would encourage anyone who thinks that they may have a galactocele to read this first - hand account of someone who had one, along with her update, and this scientific explanation of how they are diagnosed.

I developed a lump after mastitis and was diagnosed with a galactocele after a mammogram, ultrasound, and needle aspiration.

However, due to the location and size of the mass I would put pressure on my breast so he could breath while nursing (this is the same location of my galactocele).

I spoke to a lactation consultant about nursing only on the unaffected side — I stopped completely on the galactocele side.

He seems very knowledgeable on the issue and anyone with a galactocele should look him up and contact him for info.

My obgyn kept telling me it was just a clogged duct (for me clogged ducts are smaller and feel bruised; my galactocele did not hurt).

It did help but the galactocele never went away.

My galactocele is still there but small.

I was just diagnosed with a galactocele today.

The galactocele filled up again after I pumped.

At the end of that antibiotic round my galactocele reduced in size from 3/4 my breast to 1/8 of my breast.

After 4 occurrences of mastitis, the lump didn't leave my boob and I was diagnosed with having a galactocele.

It turned out to be a galactocele.

An unexpected lump in the breast that seems to come and go according to how full the breast is could be a galactocele.

That's what a galactocele is.

Vicki, what is a galactocele?

It's similar to the galactocele in that it's a cystic mass in the breast that is very painful, but rather than being filled with just milk it is puss.

VICKI WOLFRUM: A galactocele is a milk - filled cyst that occurs in the breast of a woman who is lactating.

Galactoceles are actually not that common, and when you're talking about mastitis, the more common thing that happens is that the mother actually forms the same type of scenario, but it's an infected milk so it's an abscess.

I emailed Dr Jack Newman, a breastfeeding specialist from Canada, and he said the galactocele should completely resolve after cessation of nursing.

I was engorged for a week and then the pain gradually went away and the galactocele shrunk.

I ended up having a galactocele (milk tumor), which was mistakenly thought to be cancer initially, which eventually developed into an abscess.