Recognizing Lobular Hyperplasia

1. Causes There are many causes of lobular hyperplasia, but they are mainly closely related to endocrine disorders or mental emotions. The mammary glands of women of childbearing age are controlled by the endocrine secretion of the ovary, once the ovarian function is affected by certain factors, such as emotional instability, mood, excessive fatigue, sexual disharmony, changes in the living environment, or over-eating hormone-containing tonic and the long-term use of hormone-containing cosmetic products, etc., all of which can affect the proportion of estrogen and progesterone secretion in the body of the female body is imbalance or secretion of the disorders of the rhythm of the mammary gland tissues. Hyperplasia. Lobular hyperplasia is the relative increase of estrogen secretion, so that the mammary ducts expand into a capsule, the epithelial cells of the capsule wall proliferate exuberantly, forming one or more cysts, which manifests itself as a number of swellings of different sizes on one side or both sides of the breasts, which are round or irregular in shape, and are hard and tough to the touch with a feeling of touching a rubber block. Breast lobular hyperplasia occurs due to ovarian dysfunction in the body, resulting in a relative increase in estrogen secretion, with a feeling of touching a rubber block. There is no adhesion between the lump and the skin and deep tissues, and it can be pushed, but the demarcation with the surrounding tissues is not clear. The lump can be confined to a part of the breast, or scattered in the whole breast, the patient often feel breast swelling and pain, and has a cyclical nature, in the menstrual period before 3 ~ 4 days, especially worse, menstruation pain is reduced, but often does not disappear. Most of the patients suffering from lobular hyperplasia of the breast often in the onset of a few months to 1 ~ 2 years after the self-relief, so generally do not need treatment. Usually available bra to support the breast, can relieve the pain, but can not be a fundamental treatment. The so-called lobular hyperplasia, only a small number of women’s breast lobules grow slightly excessive, not to appear in the menstrual cycle of the breast phenomenon of women, all put on the lobular hyperplasia hat. Therefore, lobular hyperplasia is not cancerous, while cystic hyperplasia has a 4% cancer rate. 2, clinical manifestations of editing breast lobular hyperplasia in the clinical mainly manifested as: 5-7 days before the onset of menstruation, breast swelling and pain, the onset of menstruation breast swelling and pain relief, or even disappeared, to be the next menstrual period before the onset of cyclic changes. Generally there are the following three manifestations: Breast pain One or both sides of the breast swelling and pain, stinging or hidden pain discomfort, pain is serious untouchable, walking, pain in the breast lumps, can be radiated to the armpits, chest, shoulders and back, upper limbs, but also manifested in the nipple pain or itching, the pain fluctuates with the mood and menstrual cycle changes, often heavy before the menstruation, the pain is significantly reduced after the onset of the menstrual cycle or disappeared. However, there are a small number of people who experience swelling and pain about a week after menstruation. Breast lump One or both breasts, single or multiple lumps, mostly in the upper part of the breasts, in the form of lumps, nodules, granules or strips, with lumps being the most common, with unclear boundaries, medium or slightly hard, no adhesion with the surrounding tissues, and may be painful to the touch, with different sizes of the lumps, such as grains of sand in small cases, or more than 3-4 CM in large cases. the breast lumps will increase in size before menstruation, and then decrease in size and become softer after menstrual flow. Accompanying Symptoms Patients often feel emotional or upset and irritable, may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, etc., and a few patients with nipple overflow of brown or yellowish liquid. 3, Classification Edit Breast Pain Breast pain is common in women in their 20s, with breast swelling and pain as the main symptom, more obvious before the onset of menstruation, preferably occurring in the upper outer part of the breasts on both sides. Breast Disease Breast adenopathy is common in about 30 years of age, sometimes there are multiple nodules in the breast, in the examination of the palpation can touch the bottom of the bowl soybean like feeling. Sometimes hyperplasia is obvious, especially before menstruation, often limited thickening, and it is not easy to distinguish from tumor. Cystoid formation Patients with cystoid formation often have swelling pain, dull pain into burning sensation. On palpation, it is mostly a cystic mass with clear boundary, and sometimes it is a collection of multiple cysts, which is not easy to be distinguished from cancer during examination and requires special care. 4, Traditional Chinese medicine treatment Editor’s general treatment Internal method: Traditional Chinese medicine can warm up the mammary gland meridians and collaterals, dredge gas, dissipate blood stasis, and attack and disperse knots in order to achieve both symptomatic and fundamental treatments. External application method: external application of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine theory According to Chinese medicine, the cause of this disease is mostly related to the dysfunction of internal organs, qi and blood disharmony, the lesion of internal organs of the liver and spleen, especially the spleen and soil weakness of the person or over-eating spicy, sweet and fatty flavors, damage to the spleen, resulting in spleen and soil dysfunction of the function of transportation and transformation, the gathering of dampness for phlegm or natural introverted personality, emotional repression, good sulking or irritability, anger, or due to the seven feelings of injury, excessive worry, resulting in liver loss of detachment and drainage, and the depression of phlegm, etc., all can lead to phlegm and dampness. All of them can lead to the accumulation of phlegm and dampness, stagnation of qi and blood and the formation of lumps. Massage method 1, push stroking method: patients take a sitting position or side lying position, fully expose the chest. Sprinkle some talcum powder or apply a little paraffin oil on the affected side of the breast, and then gently push and caress the breast with both palms around the breast and along the mammary ducts in the direction of the nipple for 50 to 100 times. 2, kneading pressure method: with the palm of the small fish or big fish on the affected area, in the red, swollen and painful place to apply light kneading techniques, there are hard lumps in the place of repeated kneading pressure several times, until the lumps are soft. 3, knead, pinch, take method: with the right hand five fingers, grab the affected side of the breast, kneading and pinching techniques, a grasp a loose, repeated 10 to 15 times. The left hand will gently pull the nipple several times to expand the milk ducts in the nipple. 4, oscillation method: with the right hand small fish intersection, from the breast knot, along the root of the breast to the nipple direction for high-speed oscillation push, repeated 3 to 5 times. The effect is better when there is a slight heat sensation locally.