What are the symptoms of breast disease?

As we all know, breast disease is very important to women's health. If not treated in time, it may lead to cancer. So in daily life, what symptoms indicate that women have breast disease? In fact, it has the following 5 manifestations. The first manifestation is breast pain before menstruation.

1. Breast pain before menstruation

Breast pain will occur 1 to 2 weeks before each menstruation. Even the slightest friction like that of a bra will be unbearable. It may also be accompanied by a series of symptoms such as headache, fatigue, tension, insomnia, and constipation. The pain will gradually disappear after the menstruation arrives.

POSE: PMS?

The hormones in women's bodies change before and after menstruation. In addition to causing mastalgia, water retention, edema, acne, irritability, and depression may also occur before menstruation. Of course, breast pain is the most unbearable, but after a professional examination you will find that there is actually nothing abnormal in the breasts. At this time, most of the symptoms can be relieved through diet and mental adjustments, and supplementation with vitamin B6.

2. Feeling a lump with unclear boundaries

Intermittent swelling or dull pain in the breasts begins one week before menstruation, and gradually eases on the second day after menstruation. If you gently touch the breasts, you can feel strip-shaped or triangular glandular tissue, which is granular, rough, soft, and has unclear boundaries, but no obvious lumps.

POSE: Breast lobular hyperplasia?

This is a type of mammary dysplasia, which is considered to be an early stage of breast disease. It is mostly related to endocrine imbalance in women. The main manifestation is breast pain, but the frequency of pain is not very high. At this time, you should adjust your emotions, maintain a happy and peaceful attitude, adjust your diet structure, ask your partner to actively cooperate, ensure a healthy and harmonious sex life, take contraceptive measures, and insist on breastfeeding your baby.

3. Feeling a lump above the breast

If a lump is touched on the outer upper part of the breast (in about three quarters of cases, it is a single lump), it will be firm in texture, smooth in surface, with clear boundaries, and no adhesion to surrounding tissues. It will be easily pushed and will grow very slowly without any other feeling at all.

POSE: Breast fibroadenoma?

Women who suffer from breast fibroadenomas generally develop the disease at a young age, mostly between 20 and 25 years old. Therefore, the medical community believes that the disease is related to the activity of estrogen. Although this is a benign breast disease, it may also become cancerous! Therefore, once discovered and confirmed, surgery should be performed in a timely manner. This type of surgery can basically be performed under local anesthesia. Don't forget to send the removed lumps for pathological examination.

4. Cyclic onset of breast pain

Breast pain can be mild or severe, and often occurs cyclically, especially before menstruation. Multiple, nodular lumps can be felt in the breasts, which are not hard but rather tough. The lumps can be found in one breast or in both breasts, and sometimes there is nipple discharge.

POSE: Breast cystic hyperplasia?

Cystic breast hyperplasia, also known as chronic cystic breast disease, is a benign hyperplasia of the breast stroma and a disease with a high incidence rate. It is most common in women between the ages of 25 and 40. Most patients can recover on their own within a few months to two years after the onset of the disease, but a small number of patients may develop cancer.

Therefore, you should see your doctor for a follow-up visit every two to three months to dynamically monitor your condition. It would be even better if you can learn to do a breast self-examination.

5. The skin is red and hot

At the beginning, the breast only feels swollen and painful, followed by local lumps and tenderness. Next, the skin on the affected area becomes red and hot, and throbbing pain gradually appears. This is often accompanied by chills and high fever. Sometimes swollen lymph nodes can be felt in the armpit on the same side, accompanied by tenderness.

POSE: Acute mastitis?

This is an acute suppurative infection of the breast, which is more common in lactating women. The onset is related to nipple hypoplasia, blocked milk ducts, milk stasis, or infection caused by bacteria entering the lymphatic vessels through a damaged nipple.

In the early stage of the disease, local hot compresses can be used to relieve pain. The inflammatory lumps in the breast will soften and form abscesses within a few days. Deep infections require puncture diagnosis and local incision and drainage. Treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.