What causes breast hyperplasia? One look and you'll know

Breast hyperplasia is a type of breast disease in women, which poses a great threat to women's health. Therefore, while female friends are doing a good job of prevention and treatment, they should also actively understand the cause of the disease and eliminate the occurrence of this disease from the root. So what specifically causes breast hyperplasia?

Causes of Breast Hyperplasia

1. Mental factors

Mental stimulation can change the internal environment of the human body, thereby affecting the function of the endocrine system and leading to abnormal secretion of one or several hormones. Negative mental factors such as excessive mental tension and excessive emotional excitement may cause the breast hyperplasia tissue that should have recovered to fail to recover or to recover incompletely. Over time, breast hyperplasia will form, and these negative mental stimuli will aggravate the existing symptoms of breast hyperplasia.

2. Bad living habits

There are also many human factors and lifestyle factors, such as abortion, infertility or giving birth after the age of 30, not breastfeeding, marital discord, health products containing hormones, etc. Wearing a bra that is too tight can easily compress the lymph and blood circulation, which are all detrimental to breast health.

3. Unreasonable diet

In addition, an unreasonable diet structure, such as excessive fat intake, can affect the endocrine system of the ovaries, enhance the stimulation of estrogen on breast epithelial cells, and thus lead to breast hyperplasia.

Clinical manifestations of breast hyperplasia

1. Breast pain: It is often distending pain or stabbing pain, which may affect one or both breasts, with one side being more severe. Those with severe pain cannot touch the breast, and may even affect their daily life and work. The pain is mainly in the breast lump, and may also radiate to the affected armpit, chest, ribs, or shoulders and back. Some people experience nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation, and the pain is significantly reduced or disappears after menstruation. The pain may also fluctuate with mood changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and mood changes is the main feature of the clinical manifestations of fibrocystic fibrosis.

2. Breast lumps: The lumps can occur in one or both breasts, single or multiple, and are more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast, but can also be seen in other quadrants. The lumps can be in the form of flakes, nodules, cords, or granules, among which flakes are the most common. The lumps have unclear boundaries, are of medium or slightly hard texture, are mobile, have no adhesions to surrounding tissues, and are often tender. The lumps vary in size, ranging from as small as millet grains to larger than 3 to 4 cm. Breast lumps also change with the menstrual cycle, increasing in size and becoming harder before menstruation and shrinking and softening after menstruation.

3. Nipple discharge: A small number of patients may experience nipple discharge, which is spontaneous, straw-yellow or brown serous discharge.

4. Menstrual disorders: Patients with this disease may also experience irregular menstruation, small amount of menstruation or light color, and may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea.

5. Emotional changes: Patients often feel depressed or irritable, which worsens when they are angry, stressed or tired.