An increasing number of women are finding lumps and discharge -- a
result of a "mysterious" breast infection that seem to have gripped
Pune. And now, more such cases have come to fore from other metros as
well. Medical experts have been perplexed with the alarming rate with
which the infection was spreading and the cause behind it.
Talking to Dr. Anupama Mane, Consultant
Breast Surgeon & HOD, Breast Services, Jehangir Hospital, Pune, shed
more light on the issue, saying, “It is not a 'mysterious' disease, as
termed by some media publications, and is named as Idiopathic
Granulomatous Mastitis, where Idiopathic means ‘unknown cause’,
Granulomatous means ‘long standing’ and Mastitis means ‘infection’. So
the name says it all.”
Informing further, she said, “The infection is not new but since we
have more means of diagnosing now, more and more cases are coming to
limelight. It is a long-standing rare infection which is curable. It is
self-limiting, that is, dies out gradually with medication and
treatment, like viral infections.”
The doctor further informed that research reveals that the
infection is more common in the developing countries than the developed
ones, adding that cases have been found all over India, including Delhi
and Mumbai, besides Pune.
