Breast health daily care

The core of daily breast health maintenance is not massage, essential oil breast enlargement, and shaping underwear advocated by merchants, but the three things of "doing regular self-examination + maintaining healthy living habits + regular standard screening". Most of the fancy paid maintenance items are IQ taxes, and if used incorrectly, they will damage the breast glands.

During my half-year rotation in the Breast Department, I met at least a dozen patients who had problems due to random breast massages. The one who impressed me the most was a 28-year-old Internet operator. His physical examination revealed three types of breast nodules. I heard people at the beauty salon said that massage can disperse knots, and he spent 12,000 yuan on it for a year. Card, I went for massage twice a week, and also used their "Plant Breast Enlargement Essential Oil". After three months of massage, my chest hurt so much that I couldn't even put on underwear. When I came back for a review, the nodule had grown from 8mm to 10mm. Fortunately, the puncture was benign, otherwise there would be no place to cry.

To be fair here, not all breast massages are useless. Nowadays, there are indeed clinical rehabilitation massages for lactation blockage and lymphedema after breast surgery. They must be performed by the rehabilitation department or breast doctor of a regular hospital. Only by targeting specific symptoms and using standardized techniques can they be effective. However, most of the masseurs in beauty salons on the market have not received professional medical training and cannot distinguish between normal tissue and nodules, so they are not careful about their actions. Many so-called "special essential oils" secretly add exogenous estrogen, which will repeatedly stimulate breast tissue and increase the risk of hyperplasia, nodules and even malignant transformation. This must be understood clearly.

To be honest, instead of throwing money away to buy peace of mind, it is better to spend 5 minutes learning to self-check. This is the most cost-effective daily maintenance action. Just choose 3-7 days after the end of menstruation every month. When taking a shower, put on shower gel and stand in front of the mirror. First, check whether there is obvious asymmetry in the size of the breasts on both sides, whether there are any depressions like dimples on the skin, whether there is any inexplicable discharge from the nipples, and then use your index finger Press the pads of your middle finger and ring finger flatly, and slowly move in circles from the armpit to the areola. Do not scratch it with your hands - I have met several aunts who grabbed their breast lobules and thought they were malignant lumps. They sat in the clinic crying for half an hour and were scared to death. If you really feel a hard, movable, painless pimple, or see any abnormalities on your skin, go directly to the hospital to register instead of blindly searching on Baidu.

The breast is actually a particularly "emotional" organ, more sensitive than you. If you stay up late and watch a drama for three days, you may feel your breasts swell and hurt the next day. ； If you get sulky after an argument with your partner, it will hurt for several days ； Many girls take diet pills to lose weight quickly and buy unknown collagen oral liquids for anti-aging. Many of them secretly add estrogen, which is simply a "ripening agent" for the breast glands. Oh, by the way, there is also a lot of controversy about whether soy products can be eaten. The current mainstream academic view is that the phytoestrogens in soybeans are two-way regulated. Drinking one or two cups of soy milk and eating some tofu every day is good for the breast glands. However, some clinicians suggest that people with more than three types of nodules should not consume excessive amounts. For example, do not drink more than 1 liter of soy milk a day. There is no need to completely avoid it, and it is not necessary to eat it as a meal. There are also those kind of body-shaping bras that are so tight that you can’t breathe. Don’t wear them. They can’t prevent sagging and block lymphatic flow. It’s just suffering.

Even if you don’t feel uncomfortable at all, don’t skimp on the screenings you should do. Self-examination can only detect lumps of more than 1cm, and small early lesions cannot be detected at all. Girls under the age of 35 only need to have a breast ultrasound every year. Most of the breasts in this age group are dense, and the mammography target is not penetrating enough, and it is still difficult to detect accurately despite being exposed to radiation. ； People over 35 years old can have color ultrasound every year, and mammography every 2-3 years. If there is a family history of breast cancer, the screening time can be advanced to the age of 30, just follow the doctor's arrangement. A 42-year-old primary school teacher came for a physical examination before. He usually didn't feel any pain at all. The mammogram showed clusters of calcifications. Further biopsy showed carcinoma in situ. After the surgery, he was fine. If it had been delayed for another year or two, the situation might have been completely different.

In fact, to put it bluntly, breast care is really not that fancy. Stay up less late, stop sulking, choose comfortable underwear, touch your body regularly, and do screenings on time. Essential oils worth thousands of yuan or massage cards worth tens of thousands of yuan will be more effective. If you really feel uncomfortable, go to a regular hospital to see a doctor. Don't listen to the nonsense of businessmen. Your body cannot withstand the torment of those messy items.