Accessory breasts are not your enemy, they are your friend!

This is the 3540th article of Da Yi Xiao Hu

Many girls will have accessory breasts. The first symptom is the discovery of the "lump" of disgusting "fat" under the armpits. After seeing a doctor, it was found that most of the "fat" under the armpits is adipose tissue, and only a small part is really accessory breasts. Most people do not understand accessory breasts. They are bothered by the two "lumps" of flesh pads that are faintly visible under the armpits when wearing clothes, and even change color when talking about "accessory breasts".

What exactly is accessory breast? How should we deal with it?

1. What is accessory breast

Accessory breasts are also called polymastia. Accessory means second, so what is the first? It is our normal pair of breasts. Accessory breasts are our second pair, third pair...breasts. They are sisters with normal breasts, and fat and mammary gland tissue are their main components.

Accessory breasts are formed during the congenital development process. Mammals such as pigs, dogs, and cats all have two rows of mammary glands on their chests, but humans only have a pair of normal breasts left on their chests when the embryo is fully developed. However, accessory breasts may appear along the line from the armpit to the groin.

1-2 out of every 100 people have accessory breasts. The size of accessory breasts varies, and most of them do not cause any special sensation. Some cases experience swelling and pain before menstruation, which disappears after menstruation. Men can also have accessory breasts, but the probability is only 1/5 of that of women.

Second, the classification of accessory breast

Depending on whether the accessory breasts are born or not, they can be divided into congenital accessory breasts and acquired accessory breasts.

According to the structure, accessory breasts are divided into incomplete accessory breasts and complete accessory breasts. Incomplete accessory breasts only have accessory nipples or only mammary glands, while complete accessory breasts have both accessory nipples and mammary glands.

3. Obesity and accessory breasts

It is difficult to distinguish between obesity and accessory breasts from the outside. Accessory breasts have nothing to do with obesity, nor are they caused by wearing improper underwear. Accessory breasts can occur regardless of fat or thin, male or female, so if you find yourself with accessory breasts, you don’t need to be overly anxious. Most accessory breasts are “born with you” and you just need to care for them like normal breasts.

4. Diagnosis of accessory breast

First of all, we can confirm it through palpation. The fat is soft and has no obvious granular feeling. The accessory breast can touch the granular gland. The accessory breast has periodic swelling and pain with menstruation. The swelling and pain will ease after the menstruation, just like the reaction of the breast. The armpit fat will gradually disappear through weight loss, but the accessory breast will still exist even if you lose weight. B-ultrasound, molybdenum target, MRI, pathological examination and other methods are performed to confirm the diagnosis.

5. Treatment of accessory breast

Surgery is an effective method for treating accessory breasts, but if the appearance of the accessory breasts is not greatly affected and the symptoms are atypical, no treatment is required; if periodic pain and swelling of the accessory breasts occur, symptomatic treatment according to breast hyperplasia can be performed. Follow-up of accessory breasts can be performed together with breast ultrasound examinations once a year and mammography examinations every two years.

We should also pay great attention to the nodules in the accessory breast, perform a puncture biopsy to confirm the diagnosis when necessary, and deal with them in a timely manner. If you have accessory breast, you don’t have to worry too much or over-treat it, and you don’t have to have surgery, because it will coexist peacefully with us.

6. Prevention of accessory breast

The prevention of accessory breast, breast hyperplasia and breast tumors is the same as the prevention of breast hyperplasia. We need to eat a light and balanced diet, develop healthy living habits, maintain an optimistic mental state, do moderate physical exercise, and have regular physical examinations. These can allow us to coexist peacefully with accessory breasts.

Accessory breasts are not enemies, they are friends!

Author: Chu Juhang Qian Mingping

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