What to do if you have radiating breast pain

Radiating pain in the breast is often related to some inflammation, such as mastitis. When the inflammation is severe, it will cause pain in other areas besides the breast. When this symptom occurs, you can use cold or hot compresses to relieve it, or you can use massage to relieve it. Of course, you should seek medical attention in time and receive regular treatment.

What to do if you have radiating breast pain

1. Massage to relieve

Gently massaging the breasts can return excess body fluids to the lymphatic system and prevent the occurrence of breast diseases.

2. Quit coffee

Whether caffeine can cause breast discomfort has not been confirmed so far, but medical surveys have found that many women with breast pain and other benign symptoms have significant improvement in their symptoms after quitting caffeine. Therefore, for breast health, you have to give up the habit of drinking coffee.

This is not just about coffee. It's best not to drink any caffeinated soda, chocolate, ice cream, tea, or caffeinated painkillers.

3. Diet adjustment

You need to pay attention to your diet and eat more low-fat, high-fiber foods. Eat more whole grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. Also, you need to eat some bean foods and stay away from coffee. The diet should be low in fat and high in fiber, consuming fiber from whole grains, vegetables, and legumes.

4. Cabbage leaf compress

Method: Take a millstone-shaped cabbage, peel off each leaf completely, and cover the armpits, pectoralis major muscle, and the entire breast with the leaves. Use a bra to apply slight pressure to ensure that the leaves are in full contact with the skin. Keep this process for 24 hours and then remove it.

Principle: Cabbage is mild in nature, sweet in taste, enters the spleen and stomach meridians, replenishes bone marrow, benefits heart strength, strengthens tendons and bones, benefits internal organs, clears away heat and relieves pain. Cabbage applied externally to the breasts can soften hard masses, dissipate pathogens, dilate the mammary ducts, improve local blood circulation, promote metabolism, allow the discharge of stagnant milk, make lumps disappear, help relieve breast pain and reduce complications.

5. Hot compress

Hot compress is a relatively traditional Chinese medicine treatment method. You can use some hot water bags or hot water bottles to relieve some breast pain. If you use cold therapy, you need to alternate between hot and cold to eliminate breast pain. The effect will be better. We need to remind everyone that hot compress can only temporarily relieve symptoms and has no therapeutic effect.

6. Use diuretics

Diuretics can help the body excrete fluids that cannot be excreted, and can also reduce breast swelling. But if you want to eliminate pain immediately, you will have to pay a price. If diuretics are used excessively, it will lead to potassium loss in the body, disrupt the balance of electrolytes in the body, and most importantly, affect the formation of glucose.

7. Wear a suitable bra

If you don’t wear a bra, your breasts will sag, so you need to wear a bra when you go out during the day. Because bras can prevent sagging and prevent the compressed breast nerves from continuing to be compressed, which can also relieve some breast discomfort. Bras are close-fitting items for women. In addition to preventing breast sagging, they can also prevent further compression of the already compressed breast nerves, thereby eliminating discomfort.