Breast pain

Breasts are very fragile for women and need our careful care. Otherwise, breast diseases will find us. For the sake of our health, female friends should find ways to protect their vulnerable parts, including breasts. We must resolutely fight against breast diseases, keep them away from us forever, and let us be healthy women.

With the quickening pace of life and the increasing work pressure, more and more female friends are suffering from breast diseases. Serious diseases such as breast cancer have scared our female friends. Therefore, when female friends feel breast pain, they will be very scared. So, what causes breast pain?

Some patients with breast pain, unable to find the cause of the disease, think they have breast cancer. In fact, there are many reasons for breast pain. Temporary breast pain caused by physiological changes in women at different times is medically called "physiological breast pain". Several common types are introduced as follows:

1. Breast pain during puberty: The earliest breast pain in girls.

It usually occurs between the ages of 9 and 13, when girls' breasts begin to develop, with the nipples first swelling and a slight pain. After menarche, it will disappear on its own as the breasts mature during puberty.

2. Premenstrual breast pain: Many women experience fullness, hardness, and tenderness in the breasts during menstruation. In severe cases, the breasts may become swollen and painful even with a slight vibration or collision, and the original granules or nodules may become more obvious. This is caused by increased estrogen levels in the body before menstruation, breast hyperplasia, and edema of the breast interstitial tissue. After the menstrual period, the above changes disappear.

Other information on the causes of nipple pain: 1) Premenstrual breast pain: Premenstrual breast pain is caused by increased estrogen levels, breast hyperplasia, cell enlargement, and breast cell edema. This type of breast pain generally does not require treatment. Just pay attention to a light diet before menstruation.

2) Breast pain during pregnancy: Breast pain after pregnancy is caused by the placenta and villi secreting large amounts of estrogen, progesterone and prolactin, which causes breast hyperplasia and breast enlargement. This is a kind of physiological pain, which is in preparation for postpartum breastfeeding. Just change to a wider bra in time to support the growing breasts.

3) Postpartum breast pain: Postpartum breast pain is mostly caused by mastitis. In addition to breast pain, there will also be fever and local lumps in the breast, which is mainly caused by blocked milk ducts and milk accumulation. Therefore, breastfeeding should be started as soon as possible after delivery to prevent excessive accumulation of milk in the breasts.

4) Breast pain due to mammary hyperplasia: Breast pain due to mammary hyperplasia can radiate to the armpits, shoulders and back. When touching the breasts, you can feel movable lumps of varying sizes with unclear edges. It can also be affected by menstruation and emotions. This type of breast pain is caused by metabolic disorders, accumulation of metabolic waste, qi stagnation and blood stasis in the body. You can take some medicines to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and regulate endocrine.

5) Mastodynia: Mastodynia manifests as dull pain, distending pain or stabbing pain, and the pain may radiate to the armpits, shoulders and upper limbs. On examination, there was only tenderness, but no mass. The first choice for treatment is traditional Chinese medicine that can soothe the liver and promote qi, relieve depression, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and regulate endocrine system.

6) Cancer-related breast pain: When breast pain persists, the pain is fixed and radiates to the shoulders and back, and there is a feeling of weight in the shoulders, there is a possibility of breast cancer. It should be taken seriously and go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

The causes of breast pain are mostly physiological changes in the breast or benign breast diseases, but breast pain in postmenopausal women should be a cause of concern. Because women of this age will no longer experience periodic physiological breast pain, and this age group is prone to breast cancer, when obvious breast pain occurs, you must go to the hospital for a high-frequency breast X-ray examination to rule out or confirm the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment are the keys to preventing breast cancer. Generally speaking: if you have persistent or throbbing breast pain, severe pain, and obvious tenderness, you should consider acute mastitis. If there is paroxysmal pain in the breast or nipple, especially the distending pain or stabbing pain before menstruation, or pain pulling the armpits and shoulders and back, accompanied by mild or moderate local tenderness, it is often a benign proliferative disease. Although few patients seek medical treatment in the early stages of malignant breast lesions with breast pain as the main complaint, some patients also have symptoms of dull breast pain, pure pain or stabbing pain. The pain may be occasional, paroxysmal or continuous. However, in the late stages of malignant lesions, especially when accompanied by ulceration, destruction or infection, the pain is continuous and severe burning pain. If clusters of blisters appear on the breast skin in a belt-like distribution and are painful, you should pay attention to herpes zoster Breastis.

The above is a summary of the causes of breast pain by gynecologists, which allows our female friends to understand the possible causes of breast pain. We female friends can identify the causes ourselves and then calmly judge what exactly is causing our breast pain so that we can receive timely treatment when problems arise. Become a normal woman in time.