Severe lactational mastitis: particularities from admission

Viduedo, Alecssandra de Fátima Silva; Leite, Juliana Rocha de Carvalho; Monteiro, Juliana Cristina dos Santos; Reis, Márcia Cristina Guerreiro dos; Gomes-Sponholz, Flávia Azevedo

doi:10.1590/0034-7167.2015680617i

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Abstract

VIDUEDO, Alecssandra de Fátima Silva et al. Severe lactational mastitis: particularities from admission. Rev. Bras. Enferm. [online]. 2015, vol.68, n.6, pp.1116-1121. ISSN 1984-0446. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167.2015680617i.

Objective:

to identify characteristics of women who have suffered severe lactational mastitis.

Method:

a descriptive, retrospective, documentary, quantitative study was performed. Data were collected from patient records of 114 hospitalized women from January of 2009 to December of 2013. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.

Results:

a higher percentage of severe lactational mastitis was found in young, primiparous women who had completed high school, who had no partner, and did not have a job; 96.5% of women had breast complications before admission and remained hospitalized an average of 4.4 days; at discharge, 23.7% of women had weaned their infants.

Conclusion:

this study showed that severe lactational mastitis can cause great harm to the woman and the baby.

Keywords : Mastitis; Health Profile; Breast Feeding.

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