Women's breasts can be ill for various reasons, but mammalian doctors ask to be especially attentive to those unpleasant sensations and seals in the mammary gland that occur several days before menstruation and end right away with her onset.
Mastopathy - a woman's breast disease is known to all women.
Do not panic!
The chest swells, it is unpleasant to sleep on the stomach, and any touch is painful. If you suffer from such symptoms for several consecutive cycles, it's time to take action. The biggest mistake made by most young women is ignoring these signals. Unfortunately, many people consider this state of affairs to be the norm.
The other extreme at mastopathy - the disease of the female breast - panic, thoughts about cancer, hysterics on the shoulder of a friend. It is better not to lose time, but to seek help from an experienced specialist.
According to statistics
According to the latest medical statistics, about 80% of women aged 25-45 years are familiar with manifestations of mastopathy - a woman's breast disease.
Mastopathy is a benign disease of the mammary glands. In the development of the disease, it is customary to blame the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone hormones (with estrogen prevalence). A prolonged hormonal failure leads to an increase in connective tissue and swelling of the mammary glands.
Pains appear when the connective tissue of the gland for some reason begins to grow and form small nodules.
Unbind the knot
Nodules - small spherical seals in the upper part of the chest - can be fingered during self-examination. With the onset of menstruation symptoms go away, and seals while themselves dissolve.
This is the initial form of breast disease doctors call a diffuse mastopathy. It is successfully treated with phytotherapy, homeopathy and multivitamin preparations.
It is a pity that with this form women rarely consult a doctor (mammalogist or gynecologist). The fact is that without timely correction, and lifestyle changes, diffuse mastopathy passes into the next form - nodal mastopathy - a woman's breast disease, which is more dangerous for women's health.
With your own hands
Independently to determine that the disease is progressing, it is possible only with regular and careful self-examination of the mammary glands. If the seals in the chest increase in size, the pain intensifies, even a slight touch becomes unpleasant, various discharge from the nipple can appear, and most importantly - all these unpleasant sensations do not disappear with the onset of menstruation, immediately register with a mammologist and go through the diagnosis.
Take into account: the most suitable time for examination is the 5th and 6th day from the onset of menstruation (the mammary gland is in a relaxed state).
Risk factors
One of the main causes of the development of mastopathy - female breast disease - is a hereditary factor: first of all, the presence of benign and malignant diseases on the maternal line. That's why doctors are convinced that every woman is simply obliged to know what diseases her mother and grandmother suffered.
It's not just genes that can create problems. The main risk factors are: persistent stress, neurosis and depression, irregular sex life or its complete absence.
Diseases of the thyroid gland, liver and gallbladder, appendages of the uterus, abortion, breast trauma, absence or late first pregnancy, short breastfeeding period, iodine deficiency all increase the probability of mastopathy. All women aged after 25 years once a year need to do ultrasound of the mammary glands and every two years to undergo a mammogram.
Mammography
Diagnosis doctor begins with a survey and a detailed conversation about your feelings. Then follows a mammogram, an X-ray or, if a woman is younger than 35, an ultrasound. All studies are conducted in the first phase of the cycle (5-8 days).
And the food heals
The main thing, remember - mastopathy - the disease of the female breast does not always lead to breast cancer, but the layman will not be able to determine the degree of danger. This should be done by a doctor who can recommend homoeopathic medicines to begin with. Herbal treatment usually lasts from 3 to 6 months.
In the event that the ailment does not lend itself to homeopathy, the mammologist selects the hormonal drugs that affect the increase in the amount of estrogens in the blood according to the results of a blood test for sex hormones.
When mastopathy plays an important role in a properly composed diet. It is necessary to exclude from the food products that excite the nervous system: chocolate, coffee, tea, alcohol. These stimulants should be replaced by decoction of oregano, lime, mint or chamomile.
Particular attention should be paid to choosing berries, fruits and vegetables. Cowberry, blueberries, apricots, cherries, mandarins, pears, bananas, persimmons, grapefruits, tomatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots, zucchini, potatoes and beets are able to block the penetration of estrogens into tissues. Cutting in the diet of carbohydrates, fatty foods, meat and salt, lean on fish, cottage cheese, yogurt and yogurt.
Be surveyed thoroughly!
Prevention of mastitis plays a huge role. It is important not to miss the early stage of the development of the disease. And here, in a literal sense, everything is in your hands! Regularly conduct self-examination of the breast from the 5th to the 12th day of the cycle.
With gentle rotational movements clockwise, survey the chest along the entire circumference. Carefully feel the lymph nodes in the armpits (risk zone!) With fingers, whether they are enlarged.