How to self-check breast disease?

Breast health has become an issue that women have paid more and more attention to in recent years. Because the incidence of breast diseases is getting higher and higher, it poses a serious health threat to most women. For example, mastitis, breast cancer, etc. are relatively common breast diseases, which have a great impact on people's health. Before the disease is diagnosed, patients can judge the extent of the disease through self-examination. Let's take a look at how to self-examine breast diseases.

Breast self-examination can be done by "looking, touching, lying down, and twisting". Self-examination can prevent breast cancer so that timely treatment can be given. For women with normal menstruation, the best time to have a breast examination is 9 to 11 days after the onset of menstruation. At this time, the effect of estrogen on the breast is minimal, and the breast is in a dormant state, making it easy to detect lesions.

Self-test method :

To facilitate memorization, experts have summarized four simple steps:

Look : Face the mirror with your hands hanging down, and carefully observe whether the two sides of the breasts are symmetrical in size, whether there are abnormal protrusions, and whether the skin and nipples have depressions or eczema.

Palpation : Raise your left hand to the back of your head, use your right hand to check your left breast, and gently press the breast with your fingertips to feel whether there are any lumps. Start checking from the nipple in a circular clockwise direction, gradually moving outward (about three or four circles) until the entire breast is checked. Use the same method to check the right breast.

Lying : Lie down flat, put a pillow under your left shoulder, bend your right hand under your head, and repeat the "touch" method to check both breasts.

Twist : In addition to the breasts, you should also check for swollen lymph nodes in the armpits. Finally, press and twist the nipple with your thumb and index finger, paying attention to whether there is any abnormal secretion.

Judgment method :

To check whether the breasts are healthy, we can judge through the following aspects.

1. Skin: The color of the breast skin is normal without edema, rash, ulceration, superficial vein distension, skin wrinkles or orange peel-like changes.

2. Nipple and areola: There is no local redness, swelling or other changes in the areola and nipple, and the nipple is not inverted.

3. Nipple discharge: It is necessary to check whether there is nipple discharge, and to check in detail whether it is overflowing on its own or after squeezing, whether it is unilateral or bilateral, and what the nature of the discharge is.

4. Breast lumps: Check the location, shape, size, number, texture, surface smoothness, mobility and tenderness of breast lumps.

5. Appearance: The size and position of the breast are normal.