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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]

Overview

Medical treatment is important alongside the surgical treatment. Breast abscess is treated with antibiotics like flucloxacillin, dicloxacillin or erythromycin as a supportive line to the surgical measures and to prevent the abscess recurrance. The choice of the antibiotic medications depends on the pathogen type however, the high possibility of the pathogen to be staphylococcus aureus leads to start the antibiotic medications before the result of the culture.[1].

Medical therapy

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Breast abscess is painful so providing analgesics like NSAIDS is indicated to the patients. In order to relieve the pain and decrease the edema, breast support is indicated also.[2]

Lactaitonal breast abscess

Non lactational breast abscess

References

  1. Dixon JM (2007). "Breast abscess". Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 68 (6): 315–20. doi:10.12968/hmed.2007.68.6.23574. PMID 17639835.
  2. Kataria K, Srivastava A, Dhar A (2013). "Management of lactational mastitis and breast abscesses: review of current knowledge and practice". Indian J Surg. 75 (6): 430–5. doi:10.1007/s12262-012-0776-1. PMC 3900741. PMID 24465097.

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