Pink milk with red tissue

singingirl96 · January 2015

hi ladies. I'm freaking out here. I'm attaching pictures.
About my breastfeeding history: I EBF my son to 13 months. My daughter has not been a great nurser and has been losing weight, so I have stopped breastfeeding her and have gone to pumping instead. She's a 28 week preemie and is 8 months old. I've been exclusively pumping for about a month. I only pump 3x a day though. I have tons of frozen milk, so I'm not too concerned about increasing supply. I pump about 15 oz / day on average.
This past week I got a massive plugged duct. It took me 2 days of warm compresses and adding extra pumping sessions and increasing suction to finally unclog it. It released 2 days ago. My breast has been a little sore since. My nipples got bruised and cracked. I also got a big blister. I'm guessing it was from the stronger pumping suction.
This morning I went to pump and got pink milk. Strawberry milk color. Then when I looked in the bottle, there was some pink stringy tissue. I'm in a lot of discomfort.
Wtf is that tissue?! Anybody have this happen?

Kimsaw · January 2015

I had this happen when I got mastitis in both breasts at the same time. I was so freaked out! DR said it wasn't anything to worry about but you might touch base with yours, in case they want to put you on antibiotics. Good luck!

turtles7 · January 2015

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I had a milk blister and I had to pop it since it hurt so much when LO nursed. While pumping, I looked down and my milk looked like strawberry milk. It eventually healed on its own.

The stringy stuff is probably dried milk from your clogged duct.

singingirl96 · January 2015

Went to the doctor today. Mastitis. Doctor said he's never seen the plug come out like that. He gave me antibiotics and scared the crap out of me when he said that if I don't get better, it means it has become an absess and will need to be surgically removed. yikes. Lets hope it doesn't come to that. thanks ladies

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