Many women experience breast pain and fear of breast cancer, especially when some celebrities die of breast cancer surgery or disease, and the breast clinics of hospitals are overcrowded at once… In fact, most of them are common symptoms of breast enlargement.
Mammary gland hyperplasia, also known as lobular hyperplasia, is the most common breast disorder in women. The disease is predominant in women of childbearing age, and is most common between the ages of 20-45. With the rapid development of the economy, people’s life is getting faster and faster, work pressure is increasing, life habits are irregular, and the number of patients with mastocytosis is increasing year by year.
1. Is it really a disease
Mastocytosis is mainly closely related to endocrine imbalance. Under normal circumstances, the breasts of every woman who enters puberty go through a proliferation-rejuvenation cycle with changes in hormone levels during the menstrual cycle. Due to this change, most women may experience different degrees of swelling and pain in one or both breasts before each menstruation, and the swelling and pain will disappear naturally after the menstruation, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. However, when the body under the action of certain factors to make a hormone or a variety of hormone secretion out of balance, then the formation of mastocytosis. Therefore, it is more of a physiological phenomenon than a disease.
2.How to prevent
It can be seen that the disease and emotional changes also have a certain relationship. So women who love beauty should keep themselves in a happy mood during their busy work day, and their bodies will be healthier when they are in a happy mood. Long-term use of estrogen-containing health products and birth control pills may also trigger breast enlargement. Late marriage, late childbirth, and the length of breastfeeding directly affect the changes in the mammary glands.
3.Types of breast enlargement
There are many types of mammary hyperplasia, most of which are completely physiological and can subside on their own without special treatment, such as simple mammary hyperplasia; some are pathological and require active treatment, especially the cystic hyperplasia type.
(1) Simple mastocytosis is characterized by obvious periodic breast swelling and pain, which disappears on its own after menstruation. The pain is mainly localized in the breast, but sometimes the pain can radiate to the ipsilateral armpit and chest wall. This type of hyperplasia is a normal physiological phenomenon, and patients just need to adjust their emotions and maintain balance.
(2) The type of breast lesion is based on the expansion of both the lobules and ducts in the breast and the hyperplasia of the tissue surrounding the gland.
(3) Cystic hyperplasia, which is based on the proliferation of epithelial cells in the milk ducts. The lumps that appear in the breast are mostly diffusely thickened, while some patients have a limited presentation and are mostly oval-shaped sacs. This type of hyperplasia may develop into cancer. However, it is very rare.
4.Examination and diagnosis
(1) Ultrasound examination: It has become a common clinical examination means because of its convenient, economic, non-invasive and painless advantages. With the development of ultrasound imaging, the application of high-frequency ultrasound has greatly improved the resolution of ultrasound, especially for the identification of cystic and solid tumors, which is difficult to be replaced by other imaging.
(2) Mammography: Mammography is an important means to detect early cancer and microscopic cancer, with a correct diagnostic rate of 80-90%, but it is unnecessary to check repeatedly within a short period of time. Generally, it is recommended to have examination once a year.
(3) Breast magnetic resonance examination: Breast magnetic resonance examination has high sensitivity. It has great advantages for microscopic breast cancer that is negative by mammography plus ultrasound, post-operative review, nipple overflow, and screening for high-risk groups.
5.Treatment methods
Health education: For most patients with mild symptoms, health education and guidance about breast-related knowledge can be provided, actively guiding patients to maintain an open and optimistic attitude towards life, guiding them to cultivate scientific dietary habits and proper breast care, which can alleviate their subjective symptoms.
Chinese medicine: According to Chinese medicine, the causes of this disease are mostly related to the dysfunction of the internal organs and the loss of harmony between qi and blood. Therefore, treatment is based on draining the liver and relieving depression, invigorating blood stasis as well as regulating the menstrual flow to regulate the breast.
Regular checkups: To detect cancer at an early stage and provide timely treatment.
Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding are hard work, but what they bring to women is not only a lovely next generation, but also greatly enhance women’s ability to resist breast diseases!