How long does it take for breast inflammation to subside?

Breast inflammation and lumps are very common for many women, especially those who are breastfeeding or have passed the breastfeeding period. They are more likely to have breast inflammation and lumps. Because people's physical constitutions are different, the time it takes to eliminate the lumps is also determined by the condition and the body. If the lump is not very large, it will disappear relatively quickly after drug treatment.

Most lumps in premenopausal women are benign. Even so, if you find a non-isolated lump in your breast, you should immediately seek medical advice. 50% of the lumps in postmenopausal women who have not used estrogen replacement therapy are benign and 50% are malignant.

Some patients believe that benign breast lumps can be left alone, with the only risk being the possibility of missing the chance of finding cancer. In clinical practice, we use traditional Chinese medicine to treat benign breast tumors, with good results. Some small benign breast lumps may not require treatment, but you should conduct self-examination and ask your doctor to examine you in time to detect changes in the lumps in time. For breast abscesses or lumps caused by acute inflammation, antibiotic treatment or drainage should be given promptly.

Fibroid glands are common among female college students. They are hard, smooth, have clear boundaries, good mobility, and have the potential for malignant transformation. Once discovered, it should be surgically removed, but it is prone to recurrence. The following is an introduction to chronic breast disease.

symptom

This disease, also known as chronic cystic breast hyperplasia, is a benign hyperplasia caused by endocrine disorders and is related to abnormal sex hormone metabolism, especially the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone ratio. This disease is easily confused with breast cancer.

The prominent clinical manifestations are breast tenderness and lumps. In most patients, the pain is related to the menstrual cycle. The pain often worsens 3 to 5 days before menstruation and eases or disappears after menstruation. Sometimes the pain exists throughout the menstrual cycle and the course of the disease is long. Examination may reveal diffuse hyperplasia of one or both breasts, which may be limited to one part of the breast or dispersed throughout the breast. The lumps are granular, nodular or flaky, of varying sizes, tough but not hard, movable, tender, with unclear boundaries from surrounding tissues, and the axillary lymph nodes are not large. A small number of patients may have nipple discharge.

Most of the lumps that premenopausal women suffer from are cystic breast hyperplasia and fibroadenomas, which are mostly caused by hormonal fluctuations. Cystic hyperplasia is filled with fluid, so it feels soft and can slide under the skin; fibroadenoma is caused by connective tissue hyperplasia, has clear boundaries with surrounding tissues, can move freely, and is hard but not as hard as stone. The main characteristic of large duct papilloma of the nipple is nipple discharge (bloody). The lumps are generally small and soft, while the lumps of cancer are as hard as stone, adhered to the surrounding areas and cannot move. The rest of the mass in the breast may simply be some exaggerated nuclei, but it is clearly different from the surrounding tissue. Doctors often refer to it as "fibroglandular breast changes."

If you find a new lump in your breast, you should seek medical attention immediately. Doctors generally use color ultrasound or mammography and other technologies to make diagnoses.

the difference

Clinically, it is difficult to distinguish between the symptoms, shape, size, density, and boundaries of benign and malignant changes. However, a correct diagnosis can be made with the help of infrared rays and X-ray mammography films.

First of all, from the morphological point of view: benign changes are mostly regular, round, oval, lump-like, nodular, cord-like, etc., with clear boundaries, most of them are bilateral, with multiple lumps; malignant changes are mostly irregular lumps, with unclear boundaries, and the surface of the lumps is often uneven, and most of them are unilateral with one lump.

From the texture point of view: good transformation is tough, most of them become hard before the tide; malignant transformation is hard like stone and has nothing to do with it.

In terms of mobility: benign changes have greater mobility and no adhesion to other tissues, such as fibroadenoma, hyperplasia, etc. Malignant changes are often associated with adhesion and have poor mobility.

From the perspective of skin surface and nipple analysis: in benign changes, most of the skin does not change, and the nipple is not inverted (except congenital inverted nipple). A few patients have secretions on the nipple, and the secretions are mostly water-like or milk-like, such as cystic hyperplasia and plasmacytitis; in malignant changes, there are lumps, orange peel-like and dimple-like changes around the skin, and the nipple is inverted (except congenital inverted nipple). The nipple secretions are mostly bloody, light yellow, or serum-like discharge.

In terms of growth rate: benign changes grow slowly, with the course of the disease varying from one to several years, while malignant changes grow rapidly, and may grow to the size of a fist within a few months.