Why does my chest hurt when I touch it?

Breasts are vital organs for female friends. If they are hard and painful when touched, you may be suffering from breast hyperplasia, which is a common gynecological disease. Experts say that endocrine disorders, emotional and other mental factors, bad living habits, unreasonable diet structure, long-term use of estrogen-containing health products and contraceptives may all cause breast hyperplasia.

1. Causes of Breast Hyperplasia

1. Endocrine disorders. The decrease in progesterone secretion and the relative increase in estrogen are important causes of breast hyperplasia. Such as incomplete ovarian development, irregular menstruation, thyroid disease and liver dysfunction.

2. The influence of emotional and other mental factors. Negative mental factors such as mental stress and emotional excitement can easily lead to breast hyperplasia. Staying up late and lack of sleep can also cause breast hyperplasia. These negative factors will also aggravate existing symptoms of breast hyperplasia.

3. Human factors or bad living habits: female infertility due to advanced age, sexual dysfunction, artificial abortion, marital discord, non-breastfeeding, etc., which cause the breast to be unable to have normal, cyclical physiological activities. Wearing a bra that is too tight or a tight underwear, etc.

4. Unreasonable dietary structure, such as high-fat, high-energy diet leading to excessive fat intake, and bad living habits such as drinking and smoking can induce breast disease. In addition, people's diet is better now, and many people suffer from high blood pressure and high blood sugar, which can easily cause endocrine disorders in women and lead to breast hyperplasia.

5. Long-term use of health products and contraceptives containing estrogen. Long-term excessive intake of estrogen by the human body will lead to endocrine imbalance. Some fast-growing foods, feed used for artificially raised aquatic products and poultry also contain hormone components. Long-term consumption can also lead to breast diseases.

2. Clinical manifestations of breast hyperplasia

1. Breast pain: It is often characterized by distending pain or stabbing pain, which may affect one or both breasts, with one side being more severe. Those with severe pain cannot touch the breast, and may even affect their daily life and work. The pain may radiate to the ipsilateral armpit or shoulder and back; some may manifest as nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation and is significantly relieved or disappears after menstruation. The pain may also fluctuate with mood changes, fatigue, and weather changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and emotional changes is the main feature of the clinical manifestations of hyperplasia of the breast.

2. Breast lumps: Lumps can occur in one or both breasts, single or multiple, and are generally found in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. It appears as flakes, nodules, cords, etc. of varying sizes, among which flakes are the most common. The border is not obvious, the texture is medium or slightly hard, there is no adhesion to the surrounding tissues, and there is often tenderness. Most breast lumps also change with the menstrual cycle. The lumps become larger and harder before menstruation, and shrink and soften after menstruation.

3. Nipple discharge: A small number of patients may experience nipple discharge, which is spontaneous and mostly light yellow or light milky white. In a few patients, discharge can be seen after squeezing the nipple. Be cautious if bloody or brown discharge occurs.

3. Prevention of Breast Hyperplasia

1. Maintain a happy mood and an optimistic attitude.

2. Change your diet structure to prevent obesity, eat less fried foods, animal fats, sweets and excessive tonic foods, and eat more vegetables and fruits, and more whole grains. Black soybeans are the best, eat more walnuts, black sesame seeds, black fungus, and mushrooms.

3. Live a regular life, combine work and rest, and maintain a harmonious sex life. Regulating endocrine can play a certain role in preventing breast hyperplasia.

4. Exercise more to prevent obesity and improve immunity.

5. It is prohibited to abuse contraceptives and beauty products or foods containing estrogen.

6. Avoiding abortion and insisting on breastfeeding can prevent problems before they occur.

7. Self-examination and regular review.

8. Make a clear diagnosis and develop a reasonable treatment plan based on the condition.

9. Psychological treatment is very important. The greatest harm of breast hyperplasia to people is psychological damage. Due to the lack of correct understanding of the disease, excessive tension, stimulation, anxiety and sadness will cause neurasthenia, aggravate endocrine disorders and promote the aggravation of hyperplasia. Therefore, all kinds of adverse psychological stimulation should be eliminated. People with poor psychological endurance should pay more attention to getting angry less, maintaining a stable, lively and cheerful mood, and promote the relief or disappearance of breast hyperplasia.