Why do breasts always itch?

The breasts are the most important part of the female body. If there is a disease in the breasts, it will easily lead to some physical diseases in women, which will have a great impact on women's health. It is also a common situation for women to have itchy breasts. The itching of breasts may be caused by a disease called breast hyperplasia in the female breasts, which requires timely and detailed examination.

This may be a manifestation of breast hyperplasia, which can be treated after a detailed breast examination.

examine

1. Breast palpation

Women's breasts are uneven, and many women feel that the lumps they feel are just normal breast bulges. Before each menstrual period, these lumps become more obvious and easier to touch. In terms of the characteristics of breast lumps, fibrocystic breast disease often results in the discovery of multiple nodules of varying sizes and unclear boundaries in both breasts at the same time or successively, which can be moved. Breast fibroadenoma lumps are mostly round or oval, with clear boundaries, smooth surface, no adhesion to the skin and surrounding tissues, large range of motion, and a slippery feeling when touched. Breast cancer lumps are mostly single nodules with irregular edges. Most are hard in texture and often adhere to the skin.

Convenient, non-invasive, and can be repeated many times. Based on the shape, cysticity and solidity of breast nodules and their relationship with surrounding tissues, a differential diagnosis can be made between breast hyperplasia, breast fibroadenoma and breast cancer.

3. Mammography

It has a high diagnostic value and can clearly display the various layers of breast tissue and calcification foci. It has certain advantages in distinguishing benign from malignant lesions and detecting breast cancer at an early stage. However, it has poor imaging for young women and dense breasts (glandular density > 70%).

4. Breast MRI

It can quickly obtain high-precision images of the internal structure of the breast, without ionizing radiation and no adverse effects on the human body. It is more suitable for the examination of multiple small lesions in the breast, lesions located deep in the breast close to the chest wall, and patients with breast prostheses. Therefore, when color ultrasound and mammography show highly suspicious lesions, MRI examination can be further performed.

In order to rule out malignant lesions, breast nodules can be subjected to lesion puncture examination if necessary. This examination is a invasive examination and is the "gold standard" for diagnosing and excluding breast cancer.

diagnosis

The clinical manifestations of fibrocystic breast disease are non-specific. Many benign and malignant breast diseases can cause breast pain and breast nodules, so differential diagnosis is very important. Cystomatous breast disease may be complicated by breast tumors, including breast cancer. Therefore, the diagnosis of breast hyperplasia should first exclude benign and malignant breast tumors.