What to do for breast pain

If female friends experience breast pain, they must seek formal advice in a timely manner so that the cause can be accurately identified and the appropriate treatment can be prescribed. Breast pain can be examined in many ways, such as doctor's palpation, color ultrasound examination, mammography examination, etc. Breast health also needs everyone's attention, because there are many kinds of diseases that cause breasts.

Breast pain requires the following diagnosis

1. Doctor's palpation: Women over 30 years old need to have a doctor's palpation once a year, mainly to check whether the nipples are sunken, lifted, and whether the color has changed. If you find a lump in your breast during breastfeeding, you will need to wait until after weaning to get further examination.

2. Color Doppler ultrasound examination: Molybdenum target examination Color Doppler ultrasound examination is very convenient, economical, non-invasive and painless, making it a commonly used examination method in clinical practice. With the development of ultrasonic imaging and the application of high-frequency ultrasound, the resolution of ultrasound has been greatly improved, and it can detect tiny lesions in the breast, especially the differentiation between cystic and solid tumors, which is difficult to be replaced by other imaging methods.

3. Mammography: Women should have a mammography examination every year after the age of 40. This examination is performed by clamping the breast on the support plate of the molybdenum target machine to fix the breast and obtain a clear image. It can detect some tiny tumor buds that cannot be felt by hand. If such examinations are carried out every year, the patient mortality rate can be reduced to 30% to 40%.

4. Breast cancer: Breast lumps usually appear on one side of the breast, are hard in texture, grow quickly, and are movable. Tumor invasion of the nipple can cause nipple inversion. If you find enlarged lymph nodes in the armpits and supraclavicular areas, especially those that are hard and have poor mobility (or may be mobile), and if women are obese, have early menarche, and late menopause, you should pay more attention if you have the above symptoms.

Self-examination methods for breast pain

1. Self-reflection in the mirror

Face the mirror, put your hands on your hips, and observe the shape of your breasts. Carefully observe whether the shape or outline of the breasts on both sides has changed, whether the breast skin has redness, swelling, rash, engorged superficial veins, skin wrinkles, any differences in orange peel-like changes, retraction, depression, and whether the color of the areola has changed. Finally, lower your arms, put your hands on your hips, push your elbows back, tighten your chest muscles, and observe whether the breasts on both sides are equal and symmetrical.

2. Supine touch method

Lie flat on your back with your right arm raised above your head and a small pillow placed under your right shoulder to flatten your right breast. Put the four fingers of your left hand together and use the palm of your fingertips to check for lumps or other changes in various parts of the breast.

3. Shower inspection method

When you shower, breast problems are easier to detect because your skin is moist. The method is to slowly slide the palm of one finger and carefully check whether there are lumps in various parts of the breast and armpits.

When female friends examine their breasts themselves, if they find any abnormal symptoms, they must seek timely treatment to achieve the goals of early detection, early diagnosis, and early cure.