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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on July 6, 2008 at 8:58am

I had a similar experience back in the fall. My hubby thought I should see the doctor because in 4 years of pumping, I had never had one look like that. I'm glad I went too. She cultured it, and it was some kind of strep infection. I took antibiotics and it cleared up eventually.

I would venture to say that having left it in overnight didn't help, but wasn't the cause. Had you taken it out as you normally do, it would have still been infected. I do think that's a weird habit though - leaving a site in when you've started another. What's the purpose of that? I take mine off, wipe it with Uni-Solve, put in my new site and hook that up,. After I'm hooked up to the new site, I put a dab of Neosporin on the old site with a tiny circle band-aid. I do that more because I'm trying to minimize the track marks than because I worry about infection.

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