Revealing the two main causes of changes in women's areola

The beauty of breasts is a topic that women have to pay attention to. Nowadays, people not only pay attention to its size, but more people pay attention to its color. The normal color of a woman's nipples and areola is light pink or pink-brown. With age and childbirth, the areola will gradually deepen from dark pink to dark brown to black.

The ring-shaped area of ​​darker pigmentation around the nipple is the areola. The diameter of the areola is about 3 to 4 cm, and the color varies. Under normal circumstances, it is pink during puberty, but due to various physiological and disease reasons, the color of the areola and nipple becomes darker, and sometimes the subcutaneous superficial veins can be seen through the skin.

1. Physiological changes

1. After a woman becomes pregnant, starting from the early stages of pregnancy, the color of her nipples and areolas will deepen, gradually changing from light red to dark brown. This change is mainly due to the increase in estrogen and progesterone in the body after pregnancy, and is a normal physiological change.

2. For some women, even when they are not pregnant, the color of their nipples and areolas gradually deepens from pink to dark brown. If you do a breast examination

No lesions may be found, but this color change suggests that the woman has a "transient" increase in estrogen in her body. Perhaps after a period of time, due to self-regulation, the estrogen level will return to normal, and the color of the nipples and areola will also return to normal. This is still a normal physiological change.

2. Pathological changes

1. The color of the nipples and areolas deepens, accompanied by severe itching around the nipples and areolas. During breast examination, hyperplastic lesions or cystic hyperplastic lesions may be found in both or one breast. The darkening of the color of the nipple and areola indicates an increase in the level of estrogen in the body. It is consistent with the law of disease occurrence for the breast, which is a target organ.

2. The color of the nipple and areola simply deepens to dark brown or black brown. Even small nodules may be found around the areola glands, forming protrusions. At this time, there is no lesion when examining the breasts. Should we consider whether the patient has a more serious liver disease?

This is because liver disease causes liver function to decline, and estrogen cannot be normally broken down in the liver, causing the nipples and areolas to darken in color, which is exactly the same as the "spider nevi" and "cinnabar palms" that appear in men with severe liver disease.

3. When a woman's ovaries suffer from certain benign tumors, the amount of estrogen secreted by the ovaries increases, which can cause the color of the nipples and areola to darken, and many small nodules may appear around the areola glands. Such patients should see a gynecologist as soon as possible to find out the cause and receive timely treatment.