Breast disease is a disease of women of reproductive age, ie 35-45 years. The disease affects 60% to 80% of women. Breast - its very characteristic symptoms, and the diagnosis is not complicated, although mastitis often occurs without the expressed manifestations. In order not to "run" the disease and prevent mastitis degenerate into malignancy breast, women should be aware of the constant BSE and regular checkups passage.

Breast - what is it?

Breast disease refers to benign breast disease, which occurs as a result of hormonal disorders Hormonal disorders: causes and the most frequent disease . The medical literature is often called mastopathy dyshormonal breast dysplasia. This term is not entirely accurate, but to some extent reflects the mechanism (pathogenesis) of the disease. Human mammary gland consists of three kinds of tissues: connective, glandular and fatty. When the process involved in mastitis connective and glandular tissue, which manifests itself a violation of their relations.

There are two forms of mastitis: diffuse and nodular or knotted. When the diffuse form of mammary glands sealed the entire area and it is practically impossible to identify the individual education. Nodular form is characterized by the presence of one or more nodes in the mammary gland. As a kind of nodular release also cystic mastopathy, where in the breast fluid are determined by education - cysts.

How does breast

The main symptoms of mastitis include:

• Pain in the breast

Pain in the breast is a different character .  It can manifest itself as a feeling of fullness in the chest, stress, or wear, or dull aching character .  A characteristic feature of the pain in the breast during mastitis is their direct relationship to the menstrual cycle .  Pain may be either constant or periodic .  In the case of constant pain or discomfort in the breasts before menstruation pain increases and decreases with the onset of the past .  If in the other phases of the menstrual cycle of the patient did not complain, we speak of the periodic chest pain .  Recurring pain occurs on the eve of menstruation, after the onset of monthly bleeding, they disappear .  Often, such a link discomfort in the chest with a woman's menstrual cycle is perceived as premenstrual syndrome .  About ten - fifteen percent of women who have found in the survey of education in the chest, do not make any complaints .  This "phenomenon" is due to woman's temperament and sensitivity to pain .

• Breast enlargement

Swelling and engorgement in the mastitis that lead to breast enlargement, also depend on the phase of the menstrual cycle The phases of the menstrual cycle failures unacceptable . And many women have this symptom again blamed on premenstrual syndrome. Breast enlargement is due to venous congestion in the chest and swelling of the affected areas of the connective tissue. Breast engorgement is necessarily accompanied by mastodynia or breast tenderness. In addition, women complain of headaches, sleep disorders, irritability, swelling of the feet and hands, as well as disorders of the gastrointestinal tract (constipation, bloating, feeling of fullness).

• The presence of structures in the chest

The presence of seals with clear boundaries, not soldered to the skin, and the patient may be of different sizes to determine on their own for the self breast or find a doctor during a medical examination. Education in the mammary glands are confirmed by ultrasound and mammography in passing.

• Discharge from the nipple

Discharge from the nipple are also a characteristic feature of mastitis Symptoms of mastitis how the disease manifests itself in different stages But it is not always the place to be. Selections can be transparent, yellowish as colostrum, greenish or bloody. Nipple discharge mixed with blood should alert a woman, as is typical for such a symptom of breast cancer.

Anna Sozinova

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