A blocked milk duct or breastfeeding mastitis – how to tell the difference
You can get a blocked milk duct when milk is not sufficiently removed from the breast. These hard lumps, also known as plugged milk ducts or clogged milk ducts, form in a woman’s breast’s narrow milk ducts. Mastitis (breast infection) in breastfeeding women is often the result of a plugged milk duct. Often mastitis is…