Breast health care methods

Most of the "breast care" items circulated on the market, such as essential oil massage, breast enlargement cream, residual breast removal, and adjustable underwear correction, are IQ taxes. There are only three core points for truly reliable breast care-avoiding clear harmful factors, maintaining healthy daily habits, and regular standardized medical screenings. Any publicity that deviates from these three points is basically aimed at your wallet.

Breast tissue is actually like a bunch of grapes hanging on the breast. The ducts and glandular lobes are very delicate. The technicians in the beauty salon who have no medical training will rub it hard for you, and even add essential oils containing estrogen. It is equivalent to spraying hormones on the grapes to promote their growth and then squeezing them with your hands. The originally good grapes will be crushed. I met a 28-year-old girl when I was following up in the breast department. She went for breast maintenance every week for 3 months. The benign fibroadenoma, which was originally only 1cm, bleeds around the tumor after pressing, and suddenly grew to 3cm. In the end, it had to be surgically removed. Speaking of this, someone must ask, is it true that I heard that massage can relieve chest pain? In fact, there are indeed differences in opinions in different fields: Western medicine generally does not recommend non-medical breast massage, especially violent massage and projects using essential oils of unknown ingredients, which can easily damage breast ducts and stimulate the growth of nodules. However, acupoint massage (such as Tanzhong and Rugen points, with very gentle techniques) in regular hospital massage departments can indeed relieve premenstrual breast swelling and pain. Everyone must learn to distinguish and not confuse the wild practices of beauty salons with regular medical operations.

Oh, by the way, there is another pitfall that everyone must avoid, which is the so-called "removal of residual milk." Many beauty salons say that residual milk left in after weaning will become cancerous. This is pure nonsense. The residual milk will be slowly absorbed by the body. If you insist on squeezing it hard, it is like pulling an unripe grape from the vine and breaking the duct. It is easy for bacteria to enter and get mastitis. There is a mother around me who spent 5,000 yuan to remove residual milk. In the end, she had a fever and went to the hospital to hang herself.

In addition to not messing around, there are actually many pitfalls in wearing underwear on a daily basis. Many people always think that wearing underwire-adjustable underwear can prevent sagging and shrink accessory breasts. In fact, sagging is essentially the relaxation of breast suspensory ligaments, which is most closely related to age, pregnancy and breastfeeding, and weight fluctuations. Underwear is simply a "support" and cannot reverse ligament relaxation. On the contrary, tight underwire underwear presses the lymphatic reflux around the edge of the breast for a long time. Many people feel uncomfortable with breast swelling after wearing it for a day. This is the reason. I once had a colleague who wore a corset bra for a week in a row in order to look good in a dress. During her menstruation, her breasts hurt so much that she couldn't even touch them. She changed to a soft-support, non-wired bra, and it took half a month to adjust before she recovered.

There is another question that has been debated for eight hundred years: Will soy products stimulate breast glands? Many people say that soybeans contain estrogen and eating too much will cause hyperplasia, but this is not the case at all. The soy isoflavones in soybeans are phytoestrogens, which are equivalent to a "peacemaker". When the estrogen in your body is high, it will help you lower it a little, and when it is low, it will help you supplement it. It has a protective effect on the breast. What we really need to avoid are supplements that clearly contain animal estrogens, such as royal jelly and purple river car, as well as high-sugar milk tea and fried foods. Last year, I met a 17-year-old girl who drank milk tea as water every day. A physical examination revealed that she had bilateral breast cystic hyperplasia, which was so painful that she couldn't even wear her school uniform. It took half a year for her to be cured.

Let me talk about a point that many people have not noticed. The impact of emotions on breasts is much greater than you think. Our old director in the department often said that the breast is an "emotional organ". When you feel sulky and grievances every day, it will be the first to protest. Many girls who come to see the doctor have been under great pressure at work recently, had conflicts with their families, and have chest pain before menstruation that makes it difficult to even lift their arms. In this case, no matter how much medicine you take, it would be better to find a friend to scold you, go out for a few laps, and relieve your anger.

Oh, by the way, what is most easily overlooked by everyone is regular screening. This is the most reliable maintenance method. However, different institutions also have different recommendations for screening: Domestic guidelines generally recommend that women aged 20-39 without high-risk factors should have a breast ultrasound once a year. Ultrasound is enough, and there is no need to perform routine mammography. After all, mammography has a certain amount of radiation and is not very sensitive to the dense breasts of young women. Those over 40 years old can have ultrasound every year and mammography every 1-2 years. Those with a family history of breast cancer can start joint screening as early as 35 years old. There is also the issue of self-examination, which is quite controversial now. The American guidelines do not recommend routine self-examination for the general population. They say that many people do not touch it the right way and mistake normal glands for nodules, which scares them half to death. Most domestic doctors will recommend that women with a history of breast cancer , 7-10 days after each menstrual period, press the breasts flatly with the fingertips, do not pinch. If you feel an abnormal lump, go to the hospital in time. There is nothing wrong with either statement. If you are prone to anxiety, don't touch it blindly. Just go for a regular physical examination every year.

In fact, after all, breast care is really not that fancy. You should toss it less, don’t put messy things on it or press it randomly, eat well and stay up late at night, don’t always suppress your emotions, and get regular check-ups, which is much more useful than spending tens of thousands of dollars in a beauty salon to pay IQ tax. After all, it is a part of your body. If you treat it well, it will naturally not cause trouble for you.