To make our breasts healthy and beautiful, it is important to understand the physiological structure of breasts.
The interior of each breast is almost always made up of breast tissue and fatty tissue, while the fibrous tissue located underneath the breast is the support of the whole breast, and the nipple, nerves, blood vessels, and lymph are each responsible for certain functions.
Breast: There are about 15-20 glands in each breast, and these glands have some small branches, which account for a small proportion of the volume of the breast, but it is an important structure to exercise the function of the breast, and the glands are arranged in a radial pattern from the nipple. Many small milk ducts converge to form large milk glands that lead to the nipple. To your baby breastfeeding can not be separated from the breast mammary glands, but the breast sometimes also easy to cause you trouble, breast enlargement, mastitis and other breast diseases may plague you.
Fat: Fatty tissue is responsible for filling the rest of the breast space and giving our breasts an outwardly convex shape. Fatty tissue accounts for a large percentage of the breast volume and keeps the whole breast in a certain shape and softness. The amount of adipose tissue in each breast is different, so the size of the breast is also different. If you lack nutrition or blindly lose weight during puberty, you will have less fat accumulation in your breasts and your breasts will be smaller.
Breast fibers: Fibrous tissue separates and supports the breast tissue and finally connects to the muscles of the breast. It mainly plays a supporting role and makes us push outward. If the pectoral muscle ages or is loose, the breasts will sag, so regular exercise can beautify our breasts.
A, read the 5 major pains of the breast
1, premenstrual breast swelling pain: about a week or two before the menstrual period breast swelling will occur, pressure pain is obvious, many women have such worries. This is because before the onset of menstruation, the body’s estrogen levels rise, breast tissue edema, breast enlargement caused by.
Pain relief key: Premenstrual breast pain usually disappears on its own after the onset of menstruation. However, some women have obvious pain and feel pain with a slight collision, which seriously affects work and life, can take vitamins for preventive treatment under the guidance of a doctor, in addition to keep a happy mood and a light diet during the period of easy accidents, is also a good way to relieve premenstrual breast pain.
2.Postpartum breast pain: After delivery, due to milk filling, edema of the internal breast tissue and poorly functioning milk ducts, you may experience significant breast pain 3-7 days after the birth of your baby.
Key to relieving the pain: The best solution is to breastfeed your baby. Through your baby’s sucking, the amount of your milk will soon be regulated to the point where you can afford it. In addition, you can also choose to use hot towels to apply hot compresses to relieve the pain, if you really do not want to feed your baby, try not to stimulate the secretion of milk, wearing a bra should be tighter.
3, breast swelling and pain during sex: the breasts will change accordingly during sex, the breasts will swell and painful, women with discordant sex life will experience pain in the breasts due to continuous engorgement of the breasts.
Pain relief key: the husband can caress his wife before sex, and strive to reach orgasm consistent, after sex can be appropriate massage and stroking or hot compresses on the breasts to reduce the discomfort of breast pain.
4, breast swelling and pain after abortion: due to the termination of pregnancy, the hormone level in women’s bodies will undergo rapid changes, so that during pregnancy has grown up to stop the growth of the breast, so pain will occur.
The key to relieving the pain: Recognize the cause of breast coloring nostalgia pain after abortion, you will not feel uneasy, and when the hormone level in the body gradually returns to normal, the breast will also return to normal.
5, pain caused by breast disease: diseases of the breast, benign tumors of the breast, mastitis, breast cancer, etc. can cause pain in the breast.
Pain relief key: when your breast pain occurs, the pain continues to worsen or accompanied by other symptoms, such as fever, nodules, lumps, you should pay attention and promptly seek medical attention, if it is caused by related diseases, the pain will naturally ease after treatment.
Second, breast troubles
Breast can also be considered as an eventful area of the female body, breast diseases may also know a lot of you, but how much do you know about the extent of their threat to your health? Effective prevention and early detection is an effective way to reduce breast troubles.
1, the most common accident: mastopexy
Mammary gland hyperplasia has become the most common disease of the female breast, mainly occurring to women of childbearing age, but now there is a trend of younger, and the incidence is also increasing year by year, the main performance is to feel a lump of varying sizes in a part of the breast, this lump is generally movable, and the skin of the breast is generally not adherent, the lump can feel pain when pressed hard, the pain is more pronounced before and after menstruation, and is reduced during menstruation.
Possible causes: Endocrine disorders are considered to be an important cause of breast enlargement. The relative or absolute excess of estrogen and too little progesterone in a woman’s body are the main causes. Also poor mood and improper breastfeeding are possible triggers for mastocytosis.
What should you do: Mammary gland hyperplasia usually does not evolve into breast cancer, but there is still a 2% possibility, so women with mammary gland hyperplasia should go to the hospital to receive treatment, usually using Chinese medicine to activate blood circulation can a get treatment, know the causes of mammary gland hyperplasia in life to keep the emotions smooth, if mammary gland hyperplasia combined with breast fibroids, we should go to surgery to remove the mass.
2, the most likely accident during breastfeeding: acute mastitis
Acute mastitis is an acute septic infection of the breast, caused by bacterial invasion, mostly occurs within a week after delivery, the main symptoms are the initial manifestation of nipple pain, cracking, breast swelling, localized redness, swelling, pressure pain, serious when the whole body fever, chills, long-term failure to heal can form a breast fistula.
Possible causes: Related to lack of nipple hygiene during breastfeeding, milk stagnation, developmental defects of the nipple such as nipple entrapment, etc.
What you should do.
(1) Nipple care is very important. Women with nipple entrapment should correct it as early as possible to avoid difficulties in breastfeeding; nipples should be kept dry and clean while breastfeeding, and the nipples should be washed with warm water every day to avoid humidity, as bacteria tend to grow in a humid environment.
(2) Keep the milk flowing smoothly. Failure to empty the milk in time also leads to the reproduction of bacteria.
(3) With acute mastitis can not ignore its harmfulness, should go to the hospital in time to check, timely take the treatment of Chinese medicine can be cured.
3.The worst accident: breast cancer
Possible causes (3 standards): The causes of breast cancer are related to genetics, sex hormone level, high fat diet, etc. Exogenous sources of estrogen such as using estrogen to treat certain diseases, using breast enlargement products containing estrogen can induce breast cancer, lack of dietary fiber, long-term constipation, obesity, and not having children are also an important factor in the development of breast cancer.
How to detect this breast killer as early as possible?
1. Advantages of early detection of breast cancer.
(1) Less investment and cost. Stage I (early stage) breast cancer costs about 20,000, while stage III (late stage) breast cancer costs more than 200,000. Ninety percent of stage I breast cancer can be cured.
(2) Mastectomy is a treatment for breast cancer, which brings a lot of mental pain to female patients, while stage I breast cancer has a high quality of life after treatment because your breast can still be fortunately preserved at this time, which can reduce the harm caused by it.
2.Ways to detect breast cancer as early as possible.
(1) Although self-examination of breast cannot play a major role in the diagnosis of breast cancer, self-examination can detect some clues of breast cancer. First of all, observe the nipple, which should be forward, downward and outward in normal people. Some people are born with collapsed nipples, which is fine as long as they are unchanged. If the nipple undergoes more significant changes, bleeding or yellowish fluid from light pressure on the nipple, it is important to pay special attention. You can also look at the appearance of the skin, some have a severe orange peel, some have a downward concavity, some have discoloration, etc. should be given special attention. When touching, pay attention to the time must be about a week after menstruation, lying on your back or sitting position. Five fingers together with fingertips massage. Bilateral comparison. Touch each quadrant of the breast carefully in order.
(2) Women are urged to care for their breast and attend professional screening for the purpose of early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment. Relevant professional breast examinations, including physician examinations, x-rays, and ultrasounds, should be performed annually. About 70% of women can be detected at the first stage of breast cancer.
3. Breast cancer focuses on daily prevention.
(1) Control the intake of fat and calories in the diet and maintain a certain weight. Women with constipation should be treated quickly in order to prevent it from happening.
(2) Reject exogenous hormones. Nowadays, many breast enlargement products, such as breast enlargement creams, contain more or less hormones, which may induce breast cancer if used for a long time and the mammary glands are stimulated for a long time, so don’t use them easily.
(3) The smooth flow of breast gland is conducive to the prevention of breast cancer, so it is better for women to breastfeed after delivery, avoid multiple abortions and maintain sexual harmony is also an important aspect of breast cancer prevention.
(4) It is important to maintain an optimistic mood. Mental factors have been recognized as an important cause of cancer. Modern women are under more and more pressure and their bodies are more exposed to the outside world, which will make their body’s various lines of defense slacken, so it is very important to dissipate their bad emotions in a timely and effective manner.
Four, beautiful breast exercise
As a modern woman, we must be healthy and beautiful “both hands, both hands must be hard”! Having a healthy and attractive beautiful chest is something that every woman dreams of. But not every woman is born with endless scenery in front of her chest.
The following we will introduce to women who love beauty a chest exercise, I hope it can help you. Remember: persistence is the key!
A week to see the effect of the chest exercises, to adhere to the morning and evening Oh!
The first section: two feet open, two arms bent elbow side, fingers relaxed placed in front of the shoulders, then two arms along the shoulder axis, liver forward flat lift, two liver forward, up, backward, down around the ring, around to the beginning of the posture, repeat the exercise 10 times.
The second section: upright, legs together, two hands pressed in the lower sides of the chest, hold your breath, with air pressure on both sides of the breast, and then two arms raised upward, repeat the exercise 10 times
The third section: the two feet open and shoulder width, into an upright position, open mouth deep breathing, head back suppression, while the liver along the side of the body to the small arm front flat lift, shoulder arm back, chest, palm up, and then restore into an upright position, repeat the exercise 10-15 times.
Section 4: knees on the ground, palms to the ground in front, fingers inward, body straight down, and then push up, repeat the exercise 6-8 times.
Fifth section: right foot support, right hand holding the left foot after lifting, chest up, head up, upper body stretch as much as possible, left and right exchange do 5 times.
Section 6: upright to do two arms fast cross movement, can also hand-held dumbbells and other equipment exercises, pay attention to the double crease outward folding should hold your breath; cross, expansion for a time, practice 5-10 times.