Women's anxiety: a pain in the breast. What to do when mastalgia

Most of the fears of women are linked with breast cancer. But it is worth knowing that a woman's breasts exposed with other diseases, which should be known.Pain in one or both breasts is called mastalgia. It can occur at any age, but most disturbing of young women with normal reproductive health.The main reasons for pain in the breast include hormonal changes (puberty, pregnancy, menopause), infectious diseases (mastitis), breast feeding, breast trauma, administration of drugs with estrogen, as well as digoxin, methyldopa; breast cancer. However, the formation of tumors is rarely accompanied by isolated pain. In addition to the pain in the breast there may indicate the pain with pressure, change in shape, the appearance of seals; change the general form of breast.What diseases are accompanied by pain?The major diseases, the diagnosis of which is set at the pain in the breast, we can include the following: 1. If the pain associated with menstrual cycle, then the speech is a cyclic mastalgia, with unpleasant sensations occur before menstruation, and since its beginning they stop. Pain may be different: aching or dull, and even interfere with hand movements. The survey shows some roughness breast tissue, but found cyclic mastalgia almost 80% of women and takes place after menopause, due to the hormonal level. 2. After forty years old, women usually complain of mastalgia acyclic non-menstrual cycle. Usually there is pain on one side and localized anymore near the nipple, visiting burning and cutting, and manifests itself continuously, it periodically. Prolonged pain may indicate a benign education, because is necessary to consult with Mammologist. 3. Infectious breast diseases are often accompanied by a deterioration of general condition of women: high fever, headache, chills, weakness and poor appetite. Breast usually swells, becomes red and sore.4. Breast cancer is allocated by the availability of tumor formation, whose vague outlines. Often the cancer is formed closer to the outside of the breast (near the armpit), appearing wrinkling of the skin, its roughness, the formation of cavities. Tone can be drawn from it and there observed discharge. The risk of breast cancer increases with nulliparous women, women who gave birth late, with obesity, with mastopathies, with a hereditary predisposition. What to do when mastalgia?Most often, pain in the breast is associated with hormonal fluctuations. However mammologist should be attended at least once a year: 1. It is useful to maintain a diary of your own sensations over the past two months to establish a link of pain and menstrual cycle. 2. After 35 years must undergo an annual consultation with mammologist, have mammography done.3. Do not withhold from the other surveys, if a doctor became suspicious about the health of the breast as diagnosis in this case is very important. 4. Conduct breast self-examination at least once a month, choosing the best time after menstruation. In carrying out self-examination you should: 1. Inspect the breasts before the mirror: lowered and raised hands, putting her hands on her waist, a tilted forward. 2. Raising one hand, the second should prod the mammary gland in a circular motion, moving from top to bottom. 3. In the prone position to place under one shoulder roll and the same hands folded behind his head, feeling the other hand, mammary gland from the edge to the nipple. Repeat with the other breast. 4. Squeeze the nipple, checking for discharge. 5. Also feeling the need armpits.