Breast Health Care Guide

The core of truly effective breast care is "regular and standardized screening, wearing the right underwear, and stabilizing hormone levels." More than 90% of the breast enhancement massage, nodule clearing, and residual milk removal programs promoted on the market are IQ taxes. They are not only useless but may damage the breast glands.

To be honest, I have seen too many girls spend thousands to get a massage card at a beauty salon, only to end up with a problem and go to the hospital. A 27-year-old girl came to the doctor a while ago. She originally only had a benign small nodule of Category 3. I heard from the salesperson that massage can "disperse the nodule". She massaged it twice a week, and also used their breast enlargement essential oil. After three months of massage, her chest hurt so much that it was difficult to lift her arms. On reexamination, the nodule had grown by 2mm, and there was also local ductal dilation. After asking the doctor, he found out that the person doing the massage was very heavy-handed and secretly added estrogen ingredients to the essential oil. Repeated stimulation caused the originally stable nodules to become active. Of course, this does not mean that all massages are completely useless. There is indeed a view in the field of traditional Chinese medicine that, on the premise of excluding malignant lesions, using very light techniques to massage acupuncture points such as Tanzhong and breast roots can relieve premenstrual breast swelling and pain, but the premise is not to use unclear methods For massage products that contain ingredients, don’t believe in the nonsense about “pressing away nodules” or “removing residual milk” - the residual milk after weaning will be absorbed by the body on its own. It is true that nodules cannot be dispersed by pressing them with your hands. On the contrary, they may spread and metastasize cancer cells, which is not worth the gain.

Compared with paying these IQ taxes, what can really help you avoid major breast problems is regular screening that many people don’t take seriously. You must know that 80% of early-stage breast cancers have no obvious pain. If you wait until you feel a hard lump or find nipple discharge before going to check, it will probably be delayed. For healthy women aged 20-39, clinical palpation once a year is enough. If there is a family history or you always feel chest pain, you can add a breast ultrasound. The radiation is small and it is suitable for seeing dense young glands. I generally recommend that women over 40 years old have a color Doppler ultrasound every year and a mammography target every 1-2 years. Many people find the mammography target painful, and whether it is necessary to do it is actually controversial now: If you are a woman under 40 with particularly dense glands, Sex, there is really no need to do it because the mammography target is not penetrating enough, but after the age of 40, the glands gradually degenerate, and the mammography target can detect tiny calcifications that cannot be seen by color ultrasound. This is a typical signal of early breast cancer. It is really worth it to take a few seconds to relax. My aunt refused to do mammography for the past two years because she heard from friends that it hurt like hell. Last year, she was forced to do it. When she came out after the procedure, she told me, "It was like a clamp, and it was much less painful than the last time my wisdom teeth hurt." Now every year, she takes the initiative to make an appointment.

Except for that one trip to the hospital every year, the thing that most easily affects your breast comfort is actually the underwear you wear every day. A few years ago, there was a rumor on the Internet that "wearing underwired bras can cause breast cancer", which scared many people and switched to non-wired bras. In fact, this rumor has been debunked for a long time. The incidence of breast cancer has nothing to do with the type of underwear, but wearing the wrong underwear will indeed cause trouble. I have seen many girls buy push-up bras that are one size smaller in order to squeeze out the gap. When they take off their breasts after get off work, there are two red marks on their chests, which makes breathing difficult. Long-term wear will indeed affect local blood circulation and aggravate premenstrual swelling and pain. There is no need to overdo it and insist on wearing a non-wired model. If a sister with big breasts wears a thin model with no support at all, her ligaments will ache when she takes two steps outside, and it will be more likely to aggravate sagging. Just choose soft steel rims or a non-wired model with good support. The core standard is to wear it for 8 hours without feeling strangulated. Lifting your arms won't make them run up. You can stay naked at home on weekends. Don't listen to the nonsense about "sag will occur if you don't wear underwear." Sagging is mainly caused by age, pregnancy and childbirth, and loss of collagen. Underwear can only serve as an auxiliary support and cannot stop the natural aging process.

Many people don’t know that the breast is actually an organ that is particularly sensitive to hormones. The late nights you stay up, the anger you get, and the random supplements you take may all be reflected on your breasts. There was a 32-year-old patient who took royal jelly every day for half a year in order to replenish qi and blood. Initially, he only suffered from mild premenstrual swelling and pain. In the end, he was found to have worsened bilateral breast hyperplasia and several new nodules. There is also a girl who feels chest pain every time she has an argument with her boyfriend. A check-up shows that the nodules are definitely bigger than last time. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t touch these hormone-containing foods at all. If you don’t have breast disease, it’s perfectly fine to eat snow clams and drink two cups of royal jelly once in a while. Just don’t take them as supplements every day. Contraceptive pills must be taken according to the doctor’s advice. The amount of hormones in emergency contraceptive pills is several times that of regular short-acting contraceptive pills. You really shouldn’t take them more than twice a year.

Many people like to touch their breasts to check for nodules when taking a bath. Here is one more thing to mention: the correct self-examination technique is to put the fingertips flat on the breast and press slowly clockwise or counterclockwise. Don't grab and pinch - anyone who grabs and pinches can feel "hard lumps", which are normal breast glands, not nodules. Of course, many experts now believe that ordinary women do not need to do self-examination. After all, it is difficult for people without medical foundation to distinguish between normal glands and lumps. Instead, it is easy to scare themselves by blindly checking Baidu. It depends on your own situation. If you can't help but feel anxious after touching, then it is better to get a physical examination every year. It is much more reliable than blindly checking by yourself.

In fact, there are really not so many bells and whistles about breast care. It is an ordinary organ of your body, just like your heart, liver, and spleen. It does not require special worship from you. Don’t mess with it, give it regular physical examinations, and reduce sulking and staying up late. It is more effective than any maintenance card worth tens of thousands of dollars.