Female chest swelling

In life, many people often feel that their chests are particularly swollen, but most of them are middle-aged and elderly people. Because middle-aged and elderly people are particularly prone to high blood pressure and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases after they get older, they will naturally feel uncomfortable in the heart area when they get sick. For some young people, this phenomenon is rare. If women have chest swelling, it is mostly due to breast diseases.

Several causes of chest pain

Premenstrual breast tenderness

This is the most common problem encountered by many women. Before each menstrual period, the most obvious symptom is breast pain. Breast fullness, hardness, and tenderness before menstruation. For women with severe symptoms, they can feel obvious pain in their breasts when their breasts are lightly touched. The original granular or nodular feeling becomes more obvious. In fact, this is a normal symptom, caused by increased estrogen levels in the body before menstruation, breast hyperplasia, and edema of the breast interstitial tissue. After the first menstruation, this symptom will gradually disappear.

This is the initial cause of breast pain in women, which usually occurs between the ages of 9 and 13. At this time, as women's breasts begin to develop, they start to bulge from the nipple, and the breast tissue under the nipple slowly begins to develop dome-shaped nodules the size of peas to beans, with slight chest pain. Generally, this pain will gradually disappear after a woman's menarche.

Many women experience chest pain after an abortion, and can feel a noticeable lump when touched. In fact, this is mainly because the pregnancy is suddenly interrupted, and the hormone level in the body drops rapidly, which causes the newly developed mammary glands to suddenly stop growing, causing a feeling of chest pain.

Breast tenderness during pregnancy

Some women experience breast hyperplasia around 40 days after pregnancy because the placenta and villi secrete large amounts of estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin, which causes the breasts to slowly enlarge and eventually lead to breast tenderness. In severe cases, the pain can persist throughout the pregnancy and heal on its own without treatment.