[Treatment experience with acute suppurative lactation mastitis].

Results of the treatment of 518 patients with acute suppurative lactation mastitis are analyzed. Lactastasis and nipple cracks are found to be responsible for the appearance and development of the disease. The infiltrative form of mastitis was found in 1,2% of patients, abscess formation in 69,2%, phlegmonous form in 27,2% and gangrenous form in 2%. Sepsis was found to develop in 9,4% of patients. Complex therapy including antibiotics of wide spectrum of effect, infusive therapy with forced diuresis, immunologic drugs are recommended.