Can mastitis cause fever

Mastitis may cause fever.

Mastitis is inflammation of breast tissue with or without microbial infection, mainly including lactation mastitis and non-lactation mastitis, in which lactation mastitis is not associated with milk stasis or nipple damage leading to bacteria entering lymph vessels and causing bacterial infection. Lactation mastitis usually acute onset, manifested as red, swollen, hot, pain and other infectious inflammatory reactions, with the progress of inflammation, the patient's body temperature can rise rapidly, may exceed 39℃, accompanied by chills, headache, pulse acceleration and other systemic symptoms.