What is the cause of the lumps in the chest at the age of 17?

There is an old Chinese saying that "women change a lot when they grow up". The understanding of this saying refers to some changes in women's physiology, among which the most obvious is the change of breasts. In addition to noticing changes in breast size, many adolescent girls also find lumps in their breasts. So is it normal for adolescent girls to have lumps in their breasts? How to diagnose a breast lump? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

Is it normal for teenage girls to have breast lumps?

This is a problem that many teenage girls encounter, so there is no need to worry.

For women, during a stage of puberty, the biggest physical change is that the breasts begin to grow and secrete some estrogen. Breast lumps during puberty are a common phenomenon for many women during puberty. Once you find a lump or swelling and pain in your breast, don't panic. You can observe it for a few days. If there is tenderness or obvious lumps, you should go to a regular hospital for examination in time. Breast pain is partly due to the stimulation of the mammary glands by estrogen and luteinizing hormone, which causes breast swelling, and sometimes nipple pain and accompanying incompatibility. This situation usually occurs before menstruation and disappears after the menstruation ends. Some people often experience swelling and pain in the breast. This type of breast pain does not necessarily mean that there is a breast tumor. Even if there is a lump in the breast, it is not necessarily breast cancer. Among them, breast fibroadenoma is most common in women around 20 years old. Once the disease occurs, you will feel a lump when touching the breast, but there will be no tenderness.

Generally speaking, for women around 20 years old. Only a scientific treatment solution can better help us deal with the problem of breast lumps. Breast lumps can occur at different ages, but breast lumps during puberty do not develop into more malignant tumors, so the treatment method is also very simple. As long as it is discovered and treated early, recovery can be achieved early, reducing the pain and suffering.

How is a breast lump diagnosed?

In clinical medicine, the less painful a breast lump is, the more attention it should be paid. Because painless breast lumps happen to be one of the characteristics of breast cancer. Generally speaking, inflammatory breast lumps are often accompanied by more severe breast pain. The lump part is also accompanied by obvious inflammatory reactions such as redness, swelling, heat, and pain. The lump can become purulent and rupture. After anti-infection treatment and local drainage methods, the inflammation will subside and the lump can disappear. Hyperplastic breast lumps are often accompanied by early menstrual breast pain. After menstruation, the pain subsides and the lumps may also shrink to a certain extent. The lumps are often multiple, soft or tough in color, and some may have mild to moderate dull pain. They will improve to varying degrees after medication treatment.

Among them, the more detailed methods of diagnosing breast lumps are as follows. Those who are interested can learn more about them.

1. From the shape point of view: good changes are mostly standard, round, oval, small pieces, lumps, cords, etc., with clear boundaries, most of them are on both sides, with several lumps; deterioration, mostly irregular small pieces, with blurred boundaries, the surface of the lumps are mostly uneven, most of them are one lump on one side.

2. From the color point of view: good mold becomes tough, and most of it hardens before the tide comes; deteriorating mold becomes hard like stone and has nothing to do with it.

3. From the perspective of growth rate: benign changes lead to slow growth and development, with the current history varying from one year to many years; severe changes lead to rapid growth and development, and the baby may grow to the size of a fist within a few months.

4. In terms of mobility: benign changes have great mobility and no adhesion with other tissues, such as fibroadenoma, hyperplasia, etc. Deterioration is often accompanied by adhesion and has weaker mobility.

5. Analysis from the skin surface and nipple level: benign changes have no skin changes in most cases, no nipple fillings (except congenital nipple fillings), very few patients have secretions on the nipples, and the secretions increase and are cold water-like or milk-like, such as cystic hyperplasia and plasma cell inflammation; deterioration has lumps, orange peel-like and pear-dimple changes appear around the skin, nipple fillings (except congenital nipple fillings), and the nipple secretions increase and are bloody, light yellow, and blood cell-like discharge.