A woman’s feeling of being slender, sexy and graceful is largely related to a pair of healthy, full-bodied breasts.
What is a healthy breast?
1, the shape: breast shape a variety of different from person to person, generally hemispherical, conical for the more ideal shape.
2, size: the general size of about 200 grams, too small in addition to affecting the appearance may affect the lactation, too large breasts may cause glandular disease increased likelihood and some may cause skin breakdown.
3, smooth breast skin without bump and abnormal pigmentation.
4.The nipple protrudes about 1-2cm, slightly upturned, no depression, and usually no overflow.
What are the factors that cause breast disease?
1, emotional impact: breast diseases are mostly psychosomatic diseases, negative and depressing emotions will lead to an increase in the prevalence of disease, such as: marital or family relations, work or life stress and not released, personality withdrawn or unable to integrate into the surrounding social relationships and so on.
2, smoking, alcohol and other bad habits, such as taking drugs.
3, ionizing radiation, modern society is in a pan-electronic society, electromagnetic radiation is difficult to avoid, especially those engaged in the industry is related to it.
4, for various reasons, not having children or not breastfeeding after childbirth, as well as breastfeeding breast disease prevalence is high in women with poor milk excretion.
5, sex, too much force on the breast, can lead to breast injury.
6, abuse of contraceptive pills.
How to conduct self-examination?
There are many breast diseases, but the most threatening one is breast cancer. Many women do not have the awareness or knowledge of self-examination, so when they go to the hospital for diagnosis after telling their family members, many of them are already in advanced stage or untreatable, so it is necessary to master some knowledge of self-examination, which can enable early detection of the disease. Here are some simple and easy to learn examination methods for women.
The recipe: “one look, two touches, three checks”.
”One look”: face the mirror and observe the breasts in three postures: “hands up, waist up, hands down”, mainly observing three aspects.
First, the shape of the breast, the contour, whether symmetrical.
Second, whether the skin of the breast is smooth, whether there is a sense of bumpiness or “orange peel-like” changes, whether there is skin ulceration, whether there are thick changes in the superficial blood vessels (veins), and whether there are differences in bilateral comparisons.
Third, whether the nipple is pulled to one side, whether there is ulceration, whether there is discharge from the nipple, if there is a discharge color.
”Two touch”: index finger, middle finger, ring finger three fingers together, hands cross touch the opposite breast, from the perimeter of the breast touch to the nipple, according to personal habits clockwise, counterclockwise can be, will touch the whole breast in turn, and finally with the index finger and middle finger pinch the nipple, around touch a week. If you feel a lobe or a lump that is relatively independent, you should feel whether it is smooth, soft or stiff, and whether you can push it, but if it is hard, not smooth or difficult to push, you should pay attention to it and go to the hospital for examination. General self-touch check time for about 2 weeks once, do not touch frequently, this will provoke tissue hyperplasia or lymph node growth, check the last, do not forget to touch the bilateral armpits, so you can find out whether the lymph nodes grow.
”Three checks”: When you suspect that you have a problem with your breast after the above checks and can’t discharge it, the best way is to go to the hospital for a checkup. Nowadays, the gold standard checkup method is the color ultrasound checkup. With the development of ultrasound, the color ultrasound has been able to easily identify breast masses >2mm, if your hand can touch it. The high resolution of modern ultrasound and related software can determine whether most of the masses are benign or malignant nodules in the first instance; when malignant nodules are suspected, ultrasound-guided puncture biopsy can be performed to distinguish benign or malignant in a very short time, saving a lot of time for the next treatment or therapy plan, without each suspect having to It saves a lot of time for the next step of management or treatment plan, instead of having to wait for the final result after the surgery.
Is breast pain a sign of breast cancer?
Most women with breast pain are cyclical in nature, usually due to hormonal changes in the female hormone cycle, resulting in physiological enlargement and expansion of the breast tissue, which usually decreases after menstruation; some women, especially those over 40 years old who are in perimenopause, have irregular breast pain, but no lumps are found after repeated breast examinations. In general, breast cancer is not painful in the early and middle stages, but in the late stage when the tumor infiltrates into the deeper ganglia, it can cause pain, and other signs of advanced breast cancer are already obvious. Therefore, women when you have breast pain, especially if it is cyclical, it is usually not too related to breast cancer.