Role of oral antibiotics in treatment of breastfeeding women with chronic breast pain who fail conservative therapy

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 63-72

  Witt, Ann M ^a,b,c   Burgess, Kelly ^a   Hawn, Thomas R ^d   Zyzanski, Steven ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio   (United States)

^c Senders Pediatrics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOXACILLIN; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREAST ABSCESS; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHRONIC PAIN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIPARA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; RETURN TO WORK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST FEEDING; CANDIDIASIS, CUTANEOUS; CHRONIC PAIN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; NIPPLES; OHIO; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; WEANING;

EID: 84896849692     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2013.0093     Document Type: Article

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