Why does it hurt when I press my breasts?

For women, if there is tenderness on both sides of the breasts when pressing with hands, you should pay attention to it. There are many reasons for this situation, both physiological reasons and disease reasons. For example, before menstruation and during ovulation, these may cause such a phenomenon. In addition, you should also be alert to the causes of breast hyperplasia. At this time, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to see what the cause is and avoid adverse effects on your health.

How to prevent and treat breast hyperplasia?

1. Change your diet to prevent obesity. Eat less fried foods, animal fats, sweets and excessive tonic foods. Eat more vegetables and fruits, and more whole grains. Black soybeans are the best, eat more walnuts, black sesame seeds, black fungus, and mushrooms. 2. Psychological treatment is very important. The most harmful thing about breast hyperplasia to the human body is psychological damage. Chengdu Hospital lacks a correct understanding of this disease. Unfavorable psychological factors such as excessive tension, stimulation, anxiety and sadness can cause neurasthenia, aggravate endocrine disorders and worsen the hyperplasia. Therefore, all kinds of adverse psychological stimulation should be eliminated. People with poor psychological endurance should pay more attention, get angry less, keep their emotions stable, and be lively and cheerful, which will be beneficial to the early recovery of hyperplasia. 3. Avoid abortion and encourage mothers to breastfeed more to prevent problems before they occur. 4. Exercise more to prevent obesity and improve immunity. 5. Live a regular life, combine work and rest, and maintain a harmonious sex life. It can regulate endocrine disorders, and keeping bowel movements smooth will relieve breast pain. 6. Do not abuse contraceptives and beauty products containing estrogen, and do not eat chicken or beef fed with estrogen.

Three major symptoms to alert breast hyperplasia

1. Breast pain is often characterized by distension 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 have an impact on their daily life and work. The pain is mainly in the breast lump, and may also radiate to the affected armpit, chest, flank, shoulder and back; some people experience nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation, and the pain is significantly reduced or disappears after menstruation; the pain may also fluctuate with mood changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and emotional changes is the main characteristic of the symptoms of breast hyperplasia.

2. Breast lumps : Lumps can occur in one or both breasts, single or multiple, and are more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast, but can also be seen in other quadrants. The shapes of the lumps include flake-shaped, nodular-shaped, cord-shaped, granular-shaped, etc., among which the flake-shaped is the most common. The lump has unclear boundaries, is of medium or slightly hard texture, has good mobility, has no adhesion to surrounding tissues, and is often tender. The lumps vary in size, with small ones being as big as millet grains and large ones exceeding 3 to 4 cm. 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, straw yellow or brown serous discharge. At the same time, some patients often feel depressed or irritable, and may also experience dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, etc.

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