I got it around the same age with DS but it was everything other than the redness I remember using warm face washers and feeding constantly to help clear it and keep up the antibiotics sorry Im not much help as it was 11 months ago but actually nurofen helped with the swelling

I had mastitis 3 times and it is awful, so i sympathise...

The other girls have given you great tips ^^^

Also you could try having a look at the ABA website and see what they suggest - I ahve always found their website really helpful for hints. And if it doesn't seem to be settling you could always give the ABA hotline a call to see if they have any other ideas.

Hope it clears up quickly for you!

Gee glad someone else had posted this recently aside just come down with mastitis today, I have all the symptoms. Thanks for all the great ideas while I wait for the antibiotics to kick in!

Hope the drugs have kicked in now and you are feeling a bit better. My flu symptoms and fever cleared up quickly but it took a few more days for the pain to subside

the AB's are the quickest things to get the symptoms to go away as well as some panadol if you can take it. i got my first ever bout of mastitis and i got everything except the red patch, which didnt come up til the next day when i went to the doctor. i got the fever, aches, lethargy, you know where you are so hot and cold you feel like death and like you cant stand up your head is so heavy? that was me. it came on within 15 mins was so quick wenty from feeling fine to sick as a dog. just happened i had a community nurse visiting the next day and she told me, with mastitis, when you only have the red patch you can manage with getting bubs to feed with their chin on the red patch, cold compress (or warm, whatever floats your boat) and massage,. but ocne you get the fever you need to get AB's stat, as thats pretty much the worst part of it and means the infection is at its worst, like you can fight it off before you get the fever but once you have the fever you will need some extra help to fight it off iygwim. cant believe how quickly they worked were a godsend!!!

Thanks Tracey, not a fun anniversary at all but im very lucky to have a beautiful, healthy daughter with me this year, it's amazing how much things can change in a year

I must have been so lucky, when DD was a newborn I got a terrible fever and felt like absolute crap. I didn't do anything about it and then I got a red patch on my boob. Still didn't give mastitis a thought ( ) Luckily by the next day I was pretty much over it and when I realized it could have gotten a lot worse!