Red Cabbage: A Novel Treatment for Periductal Lactational Mastitis

Lactational mastitis is a common condition in breastfeeding women that manifests as painful, swollen, and erythematous breasts. Customary treatment guidelines include antibiotics, cold compression, and continued breastfeeding. This report highlights a unique case in which the symptomatic progression...

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Autores principales: Abramowitz, Chiya, Deutch, Aryeh, Shamsian, Ethan, Musheyev, Yakubmiyer, Ftiha, Farage, Burnstein, Shira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36726900
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33191
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author Abramowitz, Chiya
Deutch, Aryeh
Shamsian, Ethan
Musheyev, Yakubmiyer
Ftiha, Farage
Burnstein, Shira
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Shamsian, Ethan
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description Lactational mastitis is a common condition in breastfeeding women that manifests as painful, swollen, and erythematous breasts. Customary treatment guidelines include antibiotics, cold compression, and continued breastfeeding. This report highlights a unique case in which the symptomatic progression of lactational mastitis was alleviated with the utilization of red cabbage and warm compresses. The study further investigates the potential benefits and role of red cabbage in treating mastitis infections to prevent unnecessary overuse of antibiotics and promote antibiotic stewardship practices.
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spelling pubmed-98865312023-01-31 Red Cabbage: A Novel Treatment for Periductal Lactational Mastitis Abramowitz, Chiya Deutch, Aryeh Shamsian, Ethan Musheyev, Yakubmiyer Ftiha, Farage Burnstein, Shira Cureus Dermatology Lactational mastitis is a common condition in breastfeeding women that manifests as painful, swollen, and erythematous breasts. Customary treatment guidelines include antibiotics, cold compression, and continued breastfeeding. This report highlights a unique case in which the symptomatic progression of lactational mastitis was alleviated with the utilization of red cabbage and warm compresses. The study further investigates the potential benefits and role of red cabbage in treating mastitis infections to prevent unnecessary overuse of antibiotics and promote antibiotic stewardship practices. Cureus 2022-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9886531/ /pubmed/36726900 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33191 Text en Copyright © 2022, Abramowitz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Red Cabbage: A Novel Treatment for Periductal Lactational Mastitis
title_fullStr Red Cabbage: A Novel Treatment for Periductal Lactational Mastitis
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title_sort red cabbage: a novel treatment for periductal lactational mastitis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886531/
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