What is breast hyperplasia? Mammary hyperplasia is essentially an overgrowth of the glands or an incomplete regrowth of the glands. It is common in women aged 30 to 50 and is the most common breast disease in middle-aged women. It is often manifested as: 1. Breast swelling and pain: characterized by pain mostly related to the menstrual cycle. Often before menstruation (generally about 7 days before the onset of menstruation), the pain is aggravated, after menstruation to reduce or disappear, but the longer course of the disease above the law can disappear. Breast nodule: one or both sides of the breast have diffuse thickening, granular, nodular or flaky, the thickened area is not clearly demarcated from the surrounding breast tissue, tough, elastic and movable, mostly in the outer and upper quadrants, and may be accompanied by tenderness. A few patients may have nipple discharge. Multiple factors contribute to the progression of breast hyperplasia 1, sex hormone abnormalities: ovarian imbalance, estrogen level increases, progesterone level decreases or the ratio of estrogen to progesterone is imbalanced, resulting in breast gland hyperplasia or recuperation incomplete and fibrosis triggered by breast pain. 2, breast tissue sensitivity to sex hormones increased: some scholars believe that breast pain may be the patient’s breast tissue to normal hormone hypersensitivity caused by the abnormal reaction. Breast pain in women with breast fibroadenoma, breast fibrocystic adenopathy or increased risk of breast cancer, suggesting that the breast tissue of patients with breast hyperplasia may have a higher sensitivity to estrogen. 3, women taking oral contraceptives, abuse of breast enhancement drugs, these exogenous hormones are bound to interfere with the level of estrogen and progesterone in the body, resulting in endocrine disorders. After pregnancy, the body’s hormone level rises, for the physiological changes in the development of breast hyperplasia during pregnancy, when abortion suddenly aborts the pregnancy, the body’s hormone level drops suddenly, the mammary gland suddenly stops growing, this ups and downs of the reverse physiological state makes the mammary gland incomplete restoration. 4, social, mental and dietary factors: modern life and work of the mental pressure; living habits is also a factor, may be related to the quality of the city’s diet, high-fat, high-protein diet is the synthesis of the body’s raw materials of estrogen, irregular disorders of life disrupts the endocrine regulation of the normal rhythm, can cause the incomplete restoration. How to maintain breast health and improve breast hyperplasia? At present, the main symptomatic treatment and breast cancer prevention, treatment is difficult to restore the histological changes after breast hyperplasia, that is, it is not curable. The treatment of breast hyperplasia is mainly to alleviate the symptoms, especially breast pain Treatment to alleviate the symptoms of breast hyperplasia 1, psychological treatment, adjusting emotions, avoiding tension and exertion, and taking part in sports activities appropriately. 2.Dietary modification, such as light diet is also helpful in relieving symptoms. 3, the use of very well-fitting bra support hanging breasts can also relieve pain. 4, endocrine therapy: the disease belongs to the serious endocrine disorders, lesions of the poor sensitivity of the tissue to the drug, the lump disappears slowly, the treatment time is long, sometimes need to take drugs six months to a year before the effect. Such as: danazol (danazol), toremifene, triamcinolone acetonide (tamoxifen, TAM) and bromocriptine. 5.Chinese medicine treatment: breast hyperplasia belongs to “breast fetish” in Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine has its unique characteristics in the treatment of breast hyperplasia. 6.Foreign countries use E.P.O as the first line of treatment for young patients with breast hyperplasia, in a limited trigger point pain, local injection of anesthetics and steroids can relieve the symptoms.