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White spots - what are they?

Abstract:

Hammond: "The Mysterious White Spot" is the title of a section in Chapte 6 (Breast infections or mastitis?) in Maureen Minchin's book "Breastfeeding Matters (1985). I am very grateful that I had a copy of her book to refer to when I had the problem outlined below. The 'white spot' problem is something I had never come across or even heard of in my midwifery practice, and speaking to colleagues I find most have not heard of it either. As non-recognition of this problem could easily lead to the giving up of breastfeeding due to a full-blown breast infection I would like to share my experience with other readers of this journal. Ryan: Mary's article raises the opportunity to discuss the existence of white spots and plugged or blocked ducts and their relationship to mastitis in general. Several suggestions have been made to account for the occurrence of this phenomenom. Some women describe the blockage in a milk duct as a fatty plug which is often stringy in nature and may feel gritty when rubbed between the fingers. Others describe a discrete hard granule. To my knowledge no-one has analysed these plugs from women.

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blocked milk ducts, breastfeeding difficulties, white spots