What to pay attention to for breast health

In fact, doing daily observation, standard screening, and avoiding unnecessary external stimulation are much more useful than buying a breast care package worth tens of thousands of yuan. There is really no need to pay IQ tax for various "anti-proliferation and anti-cancer" gimmicks.

Last week, I just received a 27-year-old girl at the breast surgery clinic. I saved three months’ salary to get a "breast relief annual card" from a beauty salon. I go there twice a week and use the customized essential oil they sell. Originally, it was just a slight breast swelling before menstruation. It hurt, but after two months of pressing, a moving hard lump came out. I was so scared that I hurried to check. Fortunately, the pressing only caused local tissue hyperplasia and edema. If I really encountered an undiscovered malignant nodule, pressing indiscriminately might speed up the metastasis. This is not an alarmist.

Many people always think that breast health depends on "nurturing". In fact, the first step is to "understand" the condition of your own breasts. You don't need to learn any professional palpation techniques. Just touch it around every time you take a shower to see if there are asymmetric lumps on both sides and whether there are inexplicable brown or bloody fluids on the nipples. If it is just swelling and pain before menstruation and disappears completely after menstruation, it is mostly a normal response to the cyclical fluctuations of hormones. There is no need to buy all kinds of health care products to remove lumps. Speaking of which, I would like to mention that the "drinking soy milk can induce breast hyperplasia" that has been debated on the Internet for a long time is actually a misunderstanding. A few previous studies have indeed mentioned that large doses of soy isoflavones may have an impact on the breasts, but that is a dose that can be achieved by drinking more than ten cups of soy milk a day. Generally, It is perfectly fine for people to drink one or two cups every day. After all, the isoflavones in soybeans are phytoestrogens, and their activity is less than one thousandth of human estrogen. On the contrary, only those who take royal jelly, snow clams, and estrogen supplements of unknown ingredients every day should really be wary of excessive exogenous hormones.

Don’t always think, “I’m young, so I don’t need to check if I don’t feel it.” The age of onset of breast cancer has now advanced to more than 20 years old. Last year, our department admitted a 29-year-old patient who rarely even had swelling and pain. The physical examination showed a category 4a nodule. After the surgery, the pathology was early-stage carcinoma in situ, and the recovery was particularly good. If it had been delayed for another year or two, the result might be completely different. Nowadays, routine breast screening is not expensive. A breast ultrasound every year after the age of 25 is enough, and a mammography target is added after the age of 40. Don’t do the kind of infrared scan that has long been eliminated clinically. It will be in vain if the diagnosis is not accurate.

You don’t need to be too tight in daily life. There is no basis for saying “you can’t eat spicy food or wear underwired bras”. As long as you don’t wear them tightly, there is no problem with underwired bras. On the contrary, if you wear adjustable bras that are so tight that you can’t breathe, or to flatten your chest for a long time, it will affect local blood circulation and easily lead to swelling and pain. Hormone levels are actually like a seesaw tied to work and rest mood. Once you stay up late and get sulky, the hormone level will have to swing for a long time. If it swings too much, the breast glands will be the first to be affected. If you really feel that something is wrong, go directly to the breast department of a regular hospital. Don't go to a beauty salon first to find a "drugger".