What is the breast? It is a disorder in which a breast tissue and form a seal assemblies. This disorder is very common - affected by it about half the women of reproductive age. Neoplasms when mastitis are benign, and in most cases do not cause significant discomfort. When mastitis in breast tissue cysts can be detected, proliferation of fibrous tissue, hyperplasia of the cells forming the inner shell of the milk ducts of the breast or fractions and breast adenosis.

What causes breast symptoms

Symptoms of mastitis are usually:

• Nodules or seal in the chest;
• Soreness or breast tenderness;
• Notable changes in breast size during the menstrual cycle;
• Green or dark brown discharge from the nipples, appearing without pressure, compression, and any other stimulation of the breast;
• The above symptoms usually appear in both breasts rather than one;
• In the middle of the menstrual cycle or just before menstruation chest pain increases, and the nodes in the mammary gland palpated better than at other times.

The most common breast disease develops in women aged 20 to 55 years. After menopause, when a woman does not pass the HRT, the symptoms of mastitis are usually mild and often disappear altogether.

Consult your doctor is necessary if the nodules in the breast did not diminish after menstruation, and if they are markedly increased. You should also consult a doctor if the seals are found in the breast in postmenopausal women.

What causes breast

Causes of mastitis is unknown, but experts suggest that an important role in the development of this disorder are playing the female sex hormones, especially estrogen.

In women of reproductive age discomfort associated with mastopathy is usually enhanced along with fluctuations in hormone levels that occur during the menstrual cycle. Perhaps it is because of the hormones in the breast nodules are more dense and painful breast increases and becomes extremely sensitive. After the end of menstruation symptoms of mastitis for some time virtually disappear. All this gives reason to believe that the assumption of the hormonal nature of mastitis are correct.

Could the breast cause complications?

The vast majority of patients breast does not cause any complications. Mastopathy usually detected incidentally during examinations appointed in connection with any other diseases. Probably, many women live with mastopathy lifetime, unaware that they have this disorder, and without experiencing significant discomfort. Breast disease does not increase the likelihood of developing breast cancer, except when changes in breast tissue are associated with atypical hyperplasia.

As diagnosed breast

• Examination of the chest. After the doctor will listen to the patient and to study its history, it can carry out a visual inspection and palpation of the breast, breast cancer, and the lymph nodes located in the armpits. If the doctor finds a seal similar to those that happen at mastitis, it will ask you to come to the examination again, shortly after the end of your next period. Then he will hold another inspection to identify changes in women with mastopathy usually occur after a month. If the size and density of the nodules does not change, your doctor will most likely prescribe a mammogram or ultrasound. These diagnostic procedures also apply if the patient is older than 30, or if the seals are so small that palpation gives insufficient data to make a diagnosis.
• Mammography - a breast examination using X-rays. During this procedure, you can detect even very small seals in the chest The seal in the chest - a reason to see a doctor .
• Ultrasonography (US). Women under the age of thirty years for suspected mastopathy is usually given ultrasound, mammography and not because they have breast tissue is more dense and it has less fat than in older women. In addition, by means of ultrasound can differentiate cysts, within which is contained a liquid from solid tumors.

In most cases, these procedures may be enough to diagnose mastopathy. However, if the doctor doubts remain about the diagnosis can be biopsied breast.

Treatment

If the breast does not cause significant patient discomfort, the treatment is not necessary. In such cases, doctors recommend only undergo regular checkups to time to see if the nodes in the breast begin to grow. If the breast has led to the emergence of large nodes that cause pain and other symptoms that can be used following treatments:

• Fine-needle aspiration of cysts. If the survey found that the tumors in the mammary gland cysts are, the physician may remove the fluid contained therein with a long thin needle. This leads to the alleviation of symptoms of mastitis.
• Surgical removal of tumors used in very rare cases, if no other means of help.
• Combined oral contraceptives stabilize hormones, so the symptoms of mastitis in many patients, virtually disappear. Most hormonal contraception is sufficient for a successful symptomatic treatment of mastitis Treatment of mastitis - covers all the mechanisms of disease development .
• OTC pain relievers, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen can also be taken to alleviate the symptoms of mastitis Breast disease - characterized by symptoms .

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