Causes of chronic mastitis

I believe everyone knows the importance of breasts to female friends. If there is a problem with a female friend’s breast, it will not only make the female friend feel uncomfortable but also easily bring great psychological pressure to the female friend. Therefore, we recommend that female friends should protect their breasts in daily life. Chronic mastitis is a common breast disease. Below we introduce the causes of chronic mastitis.

The characteristics of chronic mastitis are slow onset, long course, difficulty in healing and long-lasting disappearance; lumps can be felt in the breast, with lumps as the main manifestation. The lumps are hard in texture, with unclear boundaries and tenderness. They can adhere to the skin, but the lumps do not rupture and are not easy to form pus or dissipate. There is no typical redness, swelling, heat and pain in the local breast, and systemic symptoms such as fever, chills and fatigue are not obvious.

There are two causes of chronic mastitis: first, acute mastitis is not treated properly or incorrectly, such as improper use of antibiotics; second, the onset of the disease is a chronic inflammatory process, mostly due to poor milk discharge and milk stasis forming nodules.

Clinical manifestations

1. Inflammatory lumps: Acute mastitis often softens and forms abscesses as the disease progresses. The lumps of chronic mastitis are hard and tough, movable, with clear boundaries from the surrounding tissues, and can be as large as 5 cm or more.

2. Tuberculous lumps The incidence of breast tuberculosis is low, and the lumps are mostly located in the upper outer quadrant of the breast and are mostly unilateral.

3. Among hyperplastic masses, cystic hyperplasia and lobular hyperplasia of the breast are the most common.

4. Breast cysts are mostly solitary lumps, the size of soybeans and ping-pong balls, with a diameter of more than 5 cm. They are spherical, smooth in appearance, with clear boundaries from surrounding tissues, movable, soft and elastic.

5. Intraductal papilloma often occurs in the enlarged part of the milk duct near the nipple.

In the above article, we introduced the importance of breasts to female friends. We recommend that female friends pay attention to the health of their breasts in daily life. If chronic mastitis occurs, seek timely treatment. The above article introduces the causes of chronic mastitis in detail.