Characteristics of some breast disease

Contents:

• Mastitis, breast
• Various breast tumor

Breast cancer is the most important body for women. This is not only a sign of femininity and beauty, but also store food for the baby. Just for this reason it is extremely important to monitor the health of their breasts, and in the case of changes in time to seek professional help.

Today, there are many diseases associated with breast cancer. And all of them to a greater or lesser extent, are a danger to the general health of the woman or her whole life. To find out, let us consider briefly some of the most common diseases of the breast.

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Mastitis, breast

The most common disease - disease of the breast. Under this disease, doctors often combine a whole range of symptoms, some of which themselves can not explain. The main symptoms are small seals, appearing in the mammary glands. Sometimes nodules are small and do not bring discomfort. But in most cases they are the size of a pea, slightly mobile and bring tangible pain, even the touch.

Provoke the appearance of mastitis may be a number of diseases such as cysts, malfunctions of the hormonal system, injuries to the chest. Also, breast can occur, and after serious trauma, abortion or miscarriage.

Mastitis is another fairly well-known breast disease to date.

This disease is usually attributed to the island. Mastitis is characterized by swelling of the breast, which is accompanied by pain and a noticeable increase in temperature. Since mastitis in most cases, is a consequence of improper pumping of milk, cracked nipples, as well as the introduction of microbes in the chest through the open milk ducts in the breast child, the disease is also accompanied by stagnation of milk in the breast, which interferes with normal lactation.

Warn mastitis can be yourself, if you do not supercool the chest in time to express milk, wash the breast during lactation several times a day with warm soapy water and rub gently with a towel. But to treat mastitis on their own with the help of drugs is strictly forbidden. Firstly, it can harm the baby, and secondly, it is dangerous to women's health, as the infection may develop in the breast even more.

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Various breast tumor

Very common breast diseases such as various types of tumors. Education can be benign (cysts) and malignant (cancer). Tumors are the most dangerous diseases, as often result in the need for surgery, and in cases even to cancer chemotherapy.

Cyst or cured with medication (in the early stages) or surgery (acute course of the disease). Cancer also is so unpredictable that we can not give an unambiguous answer to his treatment without consultation and mammalogy oncologist.

In time to identify the presence of tumors in the breast, you need to undergo an annual gynecological exam. And in areas with poor environmental conditions recommended mammograms, which detect breast cancer in the early stages and completely heal or stop.

Causes of tumors can be quite diverse: injuries and infectious diseases to the negative impact of the external environment and the presence of constant stress. In any case, the main thing - it's time to identify the disease and to apply the treatment.