If you feel a long hard lump on your breast, it may be caused by incorrect touching technique, breast hyperplasia or mastitis.
1. Incorrect touching: If you touch your breasts by grasping and pinching, you may feel a strip-like hard lump, which is a normal structure of breast tissue.
2. Mammary hyperplasia: the cause is not clear, mainly related to the level of estrogen during the female menstruation, belongs to benign hyperplasia, when touching, you may feel a long strip of hard lumps, with a painful sensation.
3. Mastitis: mainly associated with milk stagnation, bacterial infections, mostly seen in breastfeeding women, non-lactating period of the etiology is unknown, the patient may feel long stripes of lumps, hard lumps, etc., accompanied by high fever, pain and other symptoms.
Feeling a long hard lump on the breast may also be breast cancer, trauma, thrombosed occlusive vasculitis, etc. It is recommended that the patient consult a doctor for timely examination, and choose a treatment plan under the guidance of the doctor according to the results of the examination.