Adolescent Breast Health

The development of breasts marks the beginning of maturity of adolescent girls, and the slowly rising breasts reflect the unique curves and healthy beauty of the mature female body, preparing the conditions for breastfeeding future offspring. Therefore, breast health is an important aspect of adolescent female health care. The following issues should be noted in the breast health of adolescent girls: 1. Avoid bunching breast The psychology of adolescent women is subtle and complex, and shyness is one of the main psychological reactions. Some teenage girls like to wear thin and tight underwear to tighten their breasts, which is very harmful. They should be taught about female physiological hygiene. The main hazards of the chest bundle are: (1) affect the normal development of the breast: the chest bundle directly restricts the growth of the ducts and alveoli of the breast. (2) Affect the health of the body: The chest girdle makes the internal organs of the chest under pressure, affecting the breathing of the lungs and the beating of the heart, so that the function of the heart and lungs is impaired, which will cause heart and lung diseases in the long run. (3) Nipple invagination: the nipple that should be protruding outward is squeezed and buried in the breast tissue, forming an abnormal nipple invagination, which will prevent future breastfeeding or cause nipple cracking when breastfeeding. It is important to wash the nipples, areola and breasts frequently. The reason is that the areola has many glands that secrete oil-like substances, which can protect the skin, but also stains the dirt, redness and swelling, so to keep the breasts clean and hygienic. 3. choose and wear bras (1) girls to puberty, breast development is basically mature, should be timely to wear bras, but according to the body fat and thin, breast size to determine the time to wear bras. Wearing bras too early and too tight will affect the normal development of the mammary glands. Generally girls can wear bras when they are 16 to 18 years old and the distance from the upper bottom of the breast through the nipple to the lower bottom of the breast is greater than 16 cm (measured with a soft ruler). The bra can play the role of lifting, not to sagging breasts.
(2) Reasonable choice of brassiere: In addition to choosing a brassiere style, it is important to consider the texture of the brassiere. Cotton bra has the advantages of soft texture, strong sweat absorption, no skin irritation, good permeability, etc., which helps to protect the breasts and avoid abrasion of the skin. The size of the bra should be appropriate, too large to play a role, too small, too tight to breast health are harmful. 4. exercise and bodybuilding exercise appropriate exercise can promote the normal development of the breast, and can enhance health, and is the most convenient and economic method of breast health. Every day adhere to do developed chest and pectoral muscle exercises, stretching, chest expansion, push-ups and pull-ups gymnastics, and complemented by breast massage, which can promote the role of nerve reflexes, improve the secretion of the pituitary gland. The method is from the outside inward to the breast as the center of biphasic massage, the technique should be gentle and rhythmic. Usually walk with your head up, tighten your abdomen, sit with your chest up, maintain a good posture with your chest and abdomen. Do not hunchback, sleep in a side-lying position, do not lie prone. At the same time can not be the one-sided pursuit of curve beauty and blind dieting. You should consume sufficient protein food to ensure breast development.5. Prevent abuse of breast enlargement drugs According to medical research, no breast enlargement drugs without any side effects have been found so far, so you should be very careful when using these products. There are some places, many doctors for adolescent women with breast dysplasia oral or local injection of estrogen drugs, a few people with some effect, but when the drug intermittent breast will return to the original state. Most people have normal endocrine hormone levels, but the effect of medication is not good, and there are different degrees of side effects after medication, such as menstrual disorders, irregular vaginal bleeding, edema, darkening of nipples and areolas, etc.; large amounts of medication or frequent use can also promote the growth of uterine fibroids, and even induce endometrial cancer or breast cancer.
6. Pay attention to the disease adolescence is a good period of breast hyperplasia and breast fibroids and other diseases, once diagnosed should be treated in a timely manner, conservative treatment can take some internal blood circulation, softening and dispersing Chinese and Western medicines and physical therapy, if the lump increases in time to surgery. Avoid trauma and extrusion during menstruation.