Easy breast self-examination practical four steps. In recent years, although the medical profession has been calling on women to do breast self-examination, due to the complicated examination steps, female friends are still confused and don't know where to start self-examination.
To this end, experts especially recommend the four-step breast self-examination method of "seeing, touching and lying" to female friends.
First of all, look
Face the mirror and hang down your hands. Carefully observe both sides of the breast to see whether the size is symmetrical, whether there is abnormal protrusion, whether there is depression or eczema in the skin and nipple.
Second, touch
Lift your left hand up to the back of your head, check your left breast with your right hand, gently press the breast with your fingertips, check the circumference clockwise from the nipple, and turn it outward gradually (about 3-4 times) until all the breasts are checked, and also check your right breast.
Third, lie down.
Lie on your back with a pillow under your right shoulder and your right hand bent under your head. Repeat method 2 to check your breasts.
Fourth, stress.
In addition to the breast, it is also necessary to check whether the axillary lymph nodes are swollen. Finally, squeeze the nipple with your thumb and forefinger, and pay attention to whether there is abnormal secretion.
How to check whether you have breast disease?
With the development of society, people's requirements and understanding of beauty are getting higher and higher. The pursuit of facial beauty is no longer prohibited, but breasts have also become the key part of people's pursuit of beauty. However, when more people pursue the beauty of breasts, a worse reality is placed in front of people, that is, breast diseases with rising incidence. In order to avoid more troubles caused by breast diseases to female friends, female readers must learn to self-check breast diseases and prevent them as soon as possible. So, how to self-check breast diseases?
Breast self-examination-appearance observation
One of the most commonly used self-checking methods is to observe whether the contours of various parts of the breast are as natural as usual, with or without bumps or depressions; Whether the size of the breast has changed; What is the color of skin, whether there are redness, rash, ulceration, superficial vein dilatation, skin wrinkles, orange peel-like changes, etc. Whether the nipple bulges, retracts or sags, and whether abnormal secretion overflows from the nipple; Whether the color of areola has changed, whether there is eczema-like change, etc.
Breast self-examination-Symmetry or not
How to check whether you have breast disease? During the observation, women should pay attention to compare the breasts on both sides to see if there is symmetry, especially if the nipples on both sides are on the same level. Generally speaking, if there is obvious asymmetry in the appearance of the two breasts, we should pay enough attention to it. In addition, don't forget to see if there are any stains left by nipple discharge on your changed underwear.
Breast self-examination-necessary palpation
Next, my friend, you have to touch it, which means you have to check it with your hands. Take a sitting or lying position. If you sit in a sitting position, relax your arms and don't pinch them. If you take a prone position, put a pillow or clothes under your shoulders to slightly raise your shoulders. Put the fingers of the left hand together on the right breast, and gently touch all parts of the breast with four fingers except the thumb. Draw two horizontal lines and vertical lines with the nipple as the center, and divide the breast into four quadrants: upper inside, lower inside, upper outside and lower outside. When touching, the finger should start from any L quadrant of the four quadrants and move clockwise or counterclockwise. Check a circle to avoid omission. If you still feel uncertain after a round of inspection, you can check it again. Then, put your right hand on your left chest and check it again in the same way.
Breast self-examination method-check armpit
It should be noted that sometimes, the breast lump is too small to be touched, that is, axillary lymph node metastasis has occurred. So axillary examination is very important. If you have recently developed breast discomfort or are being treated for known benign breast diseases, you should pay attention to the lesions every time you check yourself.