What are the three major causes of breast pain?

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Breast distending pain is a common breast disease in women. Breast distending pain usually refers to a disease of internal development or inflammation due to the different composition of breast tissue. So, what causes breast pain?

What are the three major causes of breast pain?

Reason 1: puberty breast pain - girls the earliest breast pain, generally 9-13 years old. At this time, the girl's breast began to develop, first the nipple bulge, nipple breast tissue about pea to broad bean large dome shaped induration, there is a slight pain. After menarche, with the development of young breast mature will disappear.

The second reason: premenstrual breast pain - more than half of women have breast fullness, hardness and tenderness before menstruation; in severe cases, breast pain can be caused by slight vibration or collision, and the original granular or nodular feeling is more obvious. This is due to the increase of estrogen level in the body before menstruation, hyperplasia of mammary glands and edema of mammary gland tissue. After menstruation, the above changes can disappear.

Reason 3: breast distension and pain during pregnancy -- some women have breast distension and pain after 40 days of pregnancy due to a large amount of estrogen, progesterone and prolactin secreted by placenta and villi, which makes breast hyperplasia and breast enlargement. The most serious cases can last for the whole pregnancy without treatment.

matters needing attention

Postpartum 3-7 days often appear double breast fullness, induration, pain. * this is mainly due to lymphatic retention, venous fullness, interstitial edema and poor mammary ductal obstruction. Prevention and treatment method: the puerpera should breast feed as soon as possible. When there is induration, you can apply hot compress and massage induration before breast-feeding; you can also use a sucking device to attract milk to make the mammary duct unobstructed.