Self-touching breast to detect health
In recent years, breast diseases have gradually increased, and breast self-examination has become a topic of concern to women. Especially for postmenopausal women, it is extremely necessary to have a breast self-examination once a month, and the time can be chosen at will. The method is as follows:
1, self-touching: first touch the breast, then touch the armpit, and check the breast in one direction with the fingertips of the middle finger and index finger.
2, supine position inspection: lie flat on the bed, centered on the nipple, and press the skin clockwise with your fingertips for a circular massage. When checking, the force should be even, and it is advisable to touch the ribs with your fingers.
3. Observation: Stand, put your arms down on both sides, and observe the shape of the breast, whether the normal arc contour becomes irregular, whether there are orange peel-like pits or pits, and whether there is liquid overflowing from the nipple during extrusion.
4. Put your right arm under your head: the breast tissue under your armpit will move to the center of your chest. Check whether there is a lump in the right breast with your left hand, and use a little force when touching it, so that your hand will be closer to the breast tissue and easier to touch. Check the left breast in the same way.
Found four hidden dangers of breast injury
1, early detection of mammary gland hyperplasia
Breast hyperplasia is a lump that appears on both sides of the breast every month. The patients are mostly women aged 25-45. Breast hyperplasia is often accompanied by premenstrual breast pain, and the size and shape of breast lump can change periodically with menstruation.
When the menstrual period ends, the pain will gradually disappear. Most of the causes of mammary gland hyperplasia are caused by endocrine disorders, so regulating endocrine is still the first principle. Combining diet conditioning with constipation treatment can improve mammary gland hyperplasia.
2. Early detection of lumps and lesions
Many women have such a misunderstanding that there is no problem with a lump on the breast, but it doesn't hurt or itch. Perhaps only pain is the problem, but in the eyes of gynecologists, a lump that does not hurt or itch cannot be taken lightly.
Painless breast mass is just one of the characteristics of breast cancer, and it must not be taken lightly. Generally speaking, breast lumps caused by inflammation will be accompanied by local redness and swelling, while proliferative lumps will have the characteristics of redness and swelling before menstruation, while breast cancer lumps have no obvious pain or even no feeling in the early stage, and only local skin ulceration will cause pain symptoms in the late stage, which is often too late.
So, let your friends and lovers help you feel it. If you can feel a painless lump, don't take any chances and think it is a benign cyst. Probably the first warning of a small chest bullet-breast cancer.
3. Early detection of fibrocyst
Fibrocyst is one of the most common benign breast tumors, especially in young women aged 18-25. Generally speaking, fibrocysts rarely have malignant lesions, and some may develop into sarcomas, but it is rare to turn into breast cancer.
The most prominent feature of fibrocyst is breast lump, and in many cases, there is only one feature. They are usually 1-3 cm in size. They are smooth and tough to the touch, with clear boundaries, no adhesion with surrounding breast tissues, high fluidity and a sense of sliding.
Generally speaking, cysts mostly occur on one side of the breast and will not change with the arrival of menstruation, especially for adolescent women. If they think they have fibrocysts, it is very common. You just need to go to the hospital to check and make sure it is a benign fibrocyst, and you don't need special treatment.
4. Early detection of breast cancer
Breast cancer mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly women aged 45-70. Breast cancer is also characterized by breast lumps, mostly cobblestone, round or oval. They are as hard as stone, the surface of the lump is not smooth, the activity is poor, and they are easy to adhere to the skin and surrounding tissues. The mass can grow rapidly and grow to a large size without restriction, and the axillary lymph nodes on the same side are often swollen.
When you find an irregular lump in your breast, you should go to the hospital for examination and confirmation immediately. Generally, you are treated with Chinese medicine in the early stage. If the situation is not optimistic, take surgery.
There must be danger behind the abnormal color of nipple and areola.
Physiological changes:
1. After pregnancy, the color of nipple and areola can be deepened from reddish to dark brown, which is mainly caused by the increase of estrogen and progesterone in the body after pregnancy, which belongs to normal physiological changes;
2. Some women (mostly 30 -45 years old), in the absence of pregnancy, the color of nipples and areola gradually deepens, from pink brown to dark brown. If you have a breast examination, you can't find the lesions, but this color change indicates that women have a temporary increase in estrogen at this time. Perhaps after a period of time, due to self-regulation, estrogen levels returned to normal, and the colors of nipples and areola also returned to normal.
Pathological changes:
1. After the nipple and areola darken, it is accompanied by itching around the nipple and areola. Breast physical examination can find hyperplasia or cystic hyperplasia of bilateral or unilateral breasts. The deepening of nipple and areola color suggests that the level of estrogen in the body is increased, which is in line with the pathogenesis of breast lesions as target organs.
2. The simple color of nipple and areola deepens and becomes dark brown or dark brown, and even small nodules can be found around areola glands to form protrusions. At this time, there was no lesion when the breast was examined. Should we consider whether the patient has severe liver disease? This is because liver disease leads to the decline of liver function, and estrogen can not be eliminated normally in the liver, which leads to the deepening of nipple and areola, just like spider nevus and cinnabar palm in male patients with severe liver disease.
3. Women's ovaries have a benign tumor, which increases the amount of estrogen secreted by the ovaries, which can lead to the deepening of the color of nipples and areola, and many small nodules can appear around the areola glands. Such patients should go to gynecology as soon as possible, find out the reasons and treat them in time.
In view of this, we must pay attention to the change of nipple and areola color during breast examination. It is necessary to find out whether the color change of nipple and areola is physiological or pathological, and make a clear diagnosis and active treatment according to the characteristics of the change.
Women need to know the food that breasts like and hate.
1, soybean
Soybeans and processed foods contain isoflavones, which can reduce the estrogen level in women and relieve breast discomfort.
2. Edible fungi
Tremella, Auricularia auricula, Lentinus edodes, Hericium erinaceus, Poria cocos and other foods are natural biological reaction regulators, which can enhance human immunity and have a strong anti-cancer effect. Studies have shown that eating more edible fungi can add points to women's breast health.
3. Macroalgae
It is found that kelp can relieve hyperplasia of mammary glands because it contains a lot of iodine, which can promote luteinization of follicles, regulate endocrine disorders and reduce the risk of hyperplasia of mammary glands in women.
4. Nuts and seed food
Seeds and nuts, including soybeans and peanuts containing lecithin, are rich in almonds, walnuts and sesame seeds from protein, and contain a lot of antioxidants, which can play an anti-cancer role.
5. Fish and seafood
Yellow croaker, turtle, loach, hairtail, octopus, squid, sea cucumber, oyster, kelp, laver, etc. It is rich in trace elements necessary for human body and has a unique function of protecting breast.
6. Milk and dairy products
Milk and dairy products are rich in calcium, which is beneficial to breast health care.
Foods that should be eaten less for breast health.
1, salt and fast food
Salt and other foods with high sodium content will make women retain more body fluids and increase breast discomfort. The fried food in fast food is extremely high in calories, which will accelerate the production of estrogen in the body and make breast hyperplasia more serious. You should also eat as little as possible.
2. Meat
A recent study by the American Women's Family Health Center found that eating more meat not only consumes too many calories, but also consumes more cholesterol. Cholesterol can stimulate the body to secrete more hormones, and most breast lumps are related to hormone secretion.
3. Coffee
Excessive intake of coffee, cola and other stimulating drinks is easy to increase the body fluids of breast tissue, aggravate the breast pain and make the breast uncomfortable.
Six small ways to make breasts "comfortable"
1, regular breast massage
Massage the breast gently, so that excess body fluids can flow back to the lymphatic system. When massaging, first apply soap to the breast, and rotate your fingers along the surface of the breast, which is about the size of a coin. Then press the breast in by hand and bounce it up, which is of great benefit to prevent breast discomfort.
Step 2 wear a sturdy bra
In addition to preventing sagging breasts, the bra plays a more important role in preventing the oppressed breast nerves from being further compressed and eliminating discomfort. Careful sisters will find that those joggers wear solid bras for this health care reason.
Step 3 avoid diuretics
Diuretics really help to expel fluids from the body and reduce breast swelling. But this immediate relief comes at a price. Excessive use of diuretics will lead to the loss of potassium, destroy the electrolyte balance and affect the formation of glucose.
Step 4 try hot compress
Hot compress is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy, which can be used to relieve breast pain by hot compress bag, hot water bag or hot water bath. If cold and hot compress are used alternately, the effect of eliminating breast discomfort will be better.
Step 5 prevent obesity
For obese women, losing weight helps to relieve breast pain.
Step 6 apply castor oil to the chest
Castor oil contains a substance that can improve t 1 1 lymphocyte function, and can accelerate the recovery of various infections and relieve pain. The method is: drop castor oil on the cotton cloth folded into four layers, so that it is covered with castor oil, but not too wet to avoid dripping everywhere. Apply this cloth to the breast, cover it with plastic film, and then put it in a hot compress bag. Adjust the hot compress bag to the heat you can bear and apply it for one hour.