What is chest tightness and breast pain?

Chest tightness and breast pain mainly occur during women's menstrual period or ovulation period, and are mainly caused by complications of menstruation, because the breasts feel swollen. Chest tightness and breast pain can also occur during the reproductive stage of female friends. Therefore, we should be clear about the causes of chest tightness and breast pain, and then choose the corresponding treatment method according to the cause of the disease, and control our emotions.

1. Swelling and pain occur during development. This happens to everyone, and it most often occurs during puberty, which is the period of sexual development for women. The most obvious manifestation is that the breasts begin to swell, and there will be a slight feeling of distension and pain. This feeling will disappear as the breasts mature.

2. Bloating and pain may also occur during menstruation. Before each menstrual period, women should feel a sense of swelling, and pain when touching or applying pressure to the breasts. This is mainly because during the menstrual period, hormonal changes cause breast edema.

3. Bloating and pain will occur during pregnancy. When women are pregnant, breast pain is caused by a combination of various factors that lead to breast enlargement. This situation can also be understood as a preparation for breastfeeding, so it is generally not dangerous. Although this feeling of distension and pain may last for a long time and may occur throughout the pregnancy, there is no need to worry too much.

4. Bloating and pain after delivery. The swelling and pain at this time is because the breasts are ready to produce milk. The hormone secretion not only affects the formation of milk, but also causes an increase in blood and lymph, which leads to breast swelling and pain. This condition lasts for a relatively short time, about 2-3 days after delivery.

The above-mentioned bloating and pain are not diseases, but can only be regarded as physiological changes of women themselves. Although there is no need for treatment, such bloating and pain are also very annoying. Then female friends can relieve them through the following dietary therapy methods to eliminate such uncomfortable and annoying feelings.

Red Dates and Hawthorn Soup

This soup can help to dredge qi and blood and relieve pain. Drinking a bowl of it every morning and evening before menstruation can effectively relieve breast pain caused by women's menstrual period and eliminate the feeling of irritability and chest tightness.

Prepare ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn, 30 grams of red dates, and 20 grams of sour jujube kernels.

Specific steps: Wash and clean all three ingredients and put them into a cooking pot together. Then add 3 bowls of water into the pot and turn on the fire to boil. Boil it over high heat first, then switch to low heat after the water boils, and finally boil it into a bowl of soup. Female friends who want a better taste may also add some rock sugar for flavoring.

Tangerine peel and Poria cocos cake

It can relieve inner depression and help relieve pain. It is very effective for female friends who suffer from emotional instability, frequent chest tightness, and breast pain before menstruation.

Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 20 grams of poria powder, 300 grams of glutinous rice flour, 100 grams of white sugar, and 100 grams of brown sugar.

Specific steps: Wash and chop the tangerine peel and put it in a bowl. Then add poria powder, glutinous rice flour, brown sugar, white sugar and other ingredients and an appropriate amount of water into the bowl. Stir these ingredients evenly until they become sticky and then put them into the mold. Then put the mold on the steamer and steam it.

Lily Vermicelli Pork Rib Soup

This soup can not only replenish nutrition, but also relieve bloating and pain.

Ingredients: 100 grams of golden needles, 200 grams of spare ribs, 50 grams of vermicelli, and appropriate amounts of green onions, oil and salt.

Specific steps: first remove the stems of the golden needles and wash them. Soak the vermicelli in clean water until soft, then take out and cut them. Then add clean water and pork ribs to the hot pot and boil. After about 30 minutes, add the processed golden needles and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Then add the vermicelli. When the vermicelli is cooked, you can add onions, oil and other condiments for seasoning, and finally serve.