Swollen teat - Page 1

Sounds like Mastitis. To help the female, Take hot compreses , and place over her teat, keep it there for a while, Then buy gently squeezing her breast from the body down to her teat, exspressing the milk, what your going to see coming out, is milk that looks like it cottage cheese. It might make her uncomfortable, but it's something you have to do. And a few times a day. Other wisethe whole breast will become larger and larger. I've seen them split open. This takes along time to heal.I would start feeding the pups , either buy bottle or tube feeding.If tube feeding, make sure you give them 20ml of milk each feeding. Most people don't give enough. The puppies will dehytrate very quickly, end they'll start to fade. Well good luck , and keep us posted.

Sorry top dog - as a midwife (and mastitis is same for all, including the cause, symptoms and cure) NEVER squeeze, this will do un-necessary tissue involvement by way of pressure. The pups have the natural way of reducing the engorgement. The engorgement is cause by infection, not stasis. The milk may be slow coming through, but that is due to the infection - usually a staph aureus, and is eased only by the antibiotic cover quelling the bug that causes the duct swelling. Feeding the pups if fraught with danger too - lowers their antibody resistance, and can cause weakly pups, if not lose pups. Tube feeding is a skill which should only be practiced by the professionals, at least to get the tube insitu, or it can also cause un-necessary suffering whilst the procedure is carried out and possibly death if the litmus paper isnt available to check whether in gut or lung. Its a dicey procedure just for a bitch with mastitis that can be cleared within hours on good antobiotic cover. The other major assistance you can use, and I have used it very very successfully with my clients is SILICEA tablets (homeopathic) 2 tablets every 2 hrs. never touching the tablets as this takes away some of the efficiency from the tablets (oil on skin) It works alongside the antibiotics for speed and works only on milk flow, Hope you didnt mind my comments Top Dog, they are meant in the nicest way. Regars Mo - Mascani

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