Are breasts healthy

There is no unified standard answer to determine whether breasts are healthy. You cannot scare yourself by relying on fragmented symptoms on the Internet, nor can you completely ignore abnormal signals. The final conclusion must be comprehensively judged based on your own menstrual cycle, body sensation changes, and regular medical examination results.

Nowadays, the opinions on breast health on the Internet are extremely polarized. On one side, there is the anxious marketing that "touching a lump is a precursor to cancer", which scares many young girls to check in overnight after touching their normal glands. On the other side, there is rough science popularization of "if it doesn't hurt or itch, just ignore it", which has delayed many early-stage lesions that have no obvious pain. In fact, both of them are undesirable.

Last week I picked up a 26-year-old Internet girl at the outpatient clinic. She came in with red circles under her eyes. She said she felt a hard lump on her left chest while taking a shower. After searching for information all night, she thought she had breast cancer. She even thought about half of her funeral. I asked her to do an ultrasound first, and the result was a 1-centimeter breast fibroma. It was benign and could be removed with a minor outpatient surgery. She didn't even need to stay in the hospital. There was also a 31-year-old mother who had a clogged breast while breastfeeding. She followed the tutorial on the Internet and rubbed it for a week. However, the lump did not go away but her fever reached 39 degrees. When she came to find out, it was suppurative mastitis and she suffered a lot.

In fact, many people don’t know that normal breast glands are not completely smooth. For example, they are like a bunch of grapes hanging on the breast. It is normal to feel a little bumpy and grainy to the touch. If you feel a large induration that appears just one week before your period, along with swelling and pain. When your aunt is gone, the induration softens and the pain disappears. It is basically a physiological hyperplasia caused by hormone fluctuations. You don’t need to take medicine. Stay up late at night, drink less iced milk tea, and don’t always sulk with your family. Most of them can be relieved a lot.

But if what you feel is a single, isolated small lump, it feels as hard as a pebble, you can't push it, there is no pain when you press it, or even your nipples are inexplicably leaking brown and bloody secretions, then don't hesitate to go for a breast ultrasound, whether you are 20 years old or 50 years old. If you are over 35 years old, you can also get a mammography examination. There was a 42-year-old patient who felt a small, painless lump six months ago. He felt that it would not be a serious matter if he did not delay eating and drinking. When he came back for a check-up, it had already progressed to the mid-stage. If he had been treated three months earlier, the treatment effect would have been much better.

If you are really not sure whether what you feel is abnormal, take half an hour to go to the hospital to register for a breast department number. An ultrasound costing more than 100 yuan will be able to get a clear picture of the situation. It is much more reliable than doing half an hour of popular science at home to scare yourself. After all, when it comes to breast health, it is always better to be careful, right?