Pathology and Clinical Features of Mastitis

c) Non-infectious mastitis:

Non-infectious mastitis is an inflammatory response following milk stasis.
Interleukin - 8 inflammatory cytokine levels are increased during mastitis.
Part of the breast is painful, red, swollen, and hard and usually only one breast is affected.
The taste of the breast milk becomes more salty, which is due to:

The woman often has a fever and feels ill.
Sub-clinical Mastitis is an inflammatory condition with increase in Interleukin-8, sodium and potassium levels in milk with out clinical signs of mastitis.

Published on Feb 06, 2016
Last Updated on Feb 06, 2016

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