Why does cracked nipples occur during breastfeeding?

Why do cracked nipples happen during breastfeeding?
The main reason that leads to a cracked nipple is the wrong method of breastfeeding. Your baby does not breastfeed properly and does not eat the nipple and areola in his mouth. Rather, he is satisfied with sucking the nipple and pulling it between his tongue and palate, which leads to cracking and bleeding.

Of course, fungal or bacterial stomatitis in your child makes matters worse, and causes you to inflame the nipple, and the germs may reach the breast gland, causing you severe inflammation, which may reach the stage of an abscess.
The treatment is, at first, by preventing cracking, by paying attention to the method of natural breastfeeding, and the need for your little one to put the nipple and areola inside his mouth so that his tongue and palate press the breast gland and squeeze it instead of pressing and squeezing the nipple itself.
Nipple ointments, or moisturizing ointments containing Pantene, can help heal cracks, as well as ointments containing antibiotics, antifungals, and cortisone, such as Triderm, in healing inflammation and relieving pain.
The cracked nipple makes the breastfeeding process very difficult and painful, but the correct breastfeeding will heal, God willing, and you and your baby will enjoy the breastfeeding process.