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What are the causes of mastitis?

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What are the causes of mastitis?

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• Causes of non-infectious mastitis Doctors say non-infectious mastitis is usually caused by milk stasis (milk is produced, but then remains in the breast, rather than coming out during feeding). Milk stasis may have the following causes: • The baby is not attaching to the breast properly during feeding. • The baby has difficulties suckling the milk out of the breast. • The baby is being breastfed infrequently. • Milk ducts may be blocked because of pressure on the breast caused by, for example, tight clothing. Anything which stops the milk from being properly expressed will usually result in milk stasis, which often leads to milk duct blockage. Experts believe breast tissue becomes inflamed because of cytokines – special proteins present in milk that the immune system uses and are passed on to the baby. They say that the mother’s immune system mistakenly attacks these cytokines as if they were bacteria or viruses, inflaming the breast tissue in order to stop the spread of a supposed i

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