What to do if your nipple is inverted and painful

For women, breast health is very important, because breasts are the part that reflects female sexiness, so this part must be healthy to better reflect female sexiness. However, due to congenital or acquired reasons, many women experience inverted nipple pain. This phenomenon makes women ashamed to talk about it. So what should we do about inverted nipple pain? Let us learn about it today.

1. The main manifestations of inverted nipples

One or both nipples are retracted beneath the skin of the breast. If there is periductal mastitis, the patient may have erythema or pain around the areola and a lump under the areola; if the nipple is inverted due to breast cancer, the patient's breast may suffer from skin diseases such as orange peel and armor-like skin.

2. People who are prone to inverted nipples

Primary nipple inversion mostly occurs in teenage girls, while secondary nipple inversion is more common in lactating women. Breast tumors may be accompanied by breast lumps and corresponding skin lesions due to milk duct dilatation or periductal mastitis.

3. Complications caused by inverted nipples

(1) Local infection. The inverted nipple makes local cleaning difficult and easily accumulates dirt, causing infection and chronic complications. Exudate will accumulate locally, and some even have symptoms such as foul odor and skin erosion.

(2) Difficulty in breastfeeding. Because the inverted nipple makes it impossible to clean the area, milk accumulates and may even cause acute mastitis due to secondary infection.

(3) Affects appearance. Inverted nipples affect women's beauty

Correction methods for inverted nipple pain

1. Manual traction method

Adolescence is an important stage in breast development, and it is also a critical period for correcting inverted nipples. Regularly pulling the nipples can highlight the breasts, increase the support of the surrounding skin, and play a shaping role. Do this several times a day for a long time and the nipples will gradually protrude outward. If the nipple cannot be pulled out, you can also push the skin near the nipple outwards first.

2. Suction therapy

After pregnancy, women should use a breast pump to suck the nipples every day and use the negative pressure to make the nipples bulge.

Inverted nipple pain usually does not occur, but if inflammation occurs, nipple pain will occur. Therefore, if breast pain occurs, women must pay attention to it to avoid further serious symptoms. The following is a detailed introduction to improvement methods for many women, so you can choose to treat inverted nipple as soon as possible.