According to medical statistics, 16% of women suffer from breast cancer, which is often triggered by mastopathy. This disease is a change in the mammary gland resulting from hormonal imbalance. And since it is regulated by dozens of hormones, then, accordingly, there are more than 60 types of this disease. At the same time, some of them do not violate the normal state of mammary gland tissues at all, and the causes of mastopathy are of a very different nature.
6 main causes of mastopathy: from abortion to stress
Specialists identify more than a hundred factors causing mastopathy. Of course, their rating significance is different, but they all point to the polyetiology of this disease. Most often, the disease develops in unmarried or divorced residents of megacities prone to stressful situations.
Mastopathy can be caused by dysfunction of the ovaries or thyroid gland, which are the main laboratory for neutralizing excess hormones.
Reason #1. Spontaneous or induced abortions. In response to artificially induced hormonal disharmony, the mammary gland reacts with morphostructural changes. After an abortion, the return of the mammary gland to its normal state occurs abruptly, without appropriate hormonal support, and this significantly depletes its regenerative capabilities.
After abortions, every second woman develops inflammation of the genitals, and every third woman develops follicular cysts in the ovaries, which in 70% of cases are accompanied by mastopathy.
Reason #2. The unfulfilled desire of motherhood contributes to the formation in the cerebral cortex of a stable focus of irritation, first with the development of functional, and eventually somatic situations.
Reason #3. Conflict situations in the family in 45-50% of married women cause mastopathy. If constant household troubles accumulate neuropsychiatric disorders, then severe shocks can very quickly cause pathological changes in the mammary glands.
Reason #4. Lactation. Stagnation of milk in the thoracic ducts causes inflammation, which promotes the growth of coarse connective tissue. But the greatest threat is the so-called "reserve particles" of the mammary gland, which consist of lactoepithelium. Not realizing its functionality due to lack of lactation, in the future it can become a source of nodular mastopathy.
Reason #5. Not Pregnant. Mammary gland is an organ whose potential function is accompanied by pregnancy and lactation. Therefore, their absence can provoke the development of mastopathy changes.
Reason #6. Violation of sexual function. Prolonged abstinence against the background of negative genetic factors can cause hormonal disorders in a woman's body.
Breast Diagnosis: Beware of Bleeding Nipples
In order to prevent mastopathy from turning into a malignant form, one should be attentive to the mammary glands, the condition of which will indicate a developing disease.
Pain in the mammary glands, - constant or periodic, - which increase before menstruation, indicate an early stage of mastopathy - mastalgia. Pain may decrease over time, but fibrous, fibromatous, cystic forms, etc. will develop.
- It is important to pay attention to the signs that "signal" the appearance of a malignant form or close to it. To do this, it is necessary to conduct a self-examination of the glands in the middle of the monthly cycle.
Indurations, the appearance of the so-called "lemon peel" on the mammary glands, when point retractions appear on a pale area of the skin.
Discharge from the nipples, especially if they are bloody, is a sign of intracurrent growths, which most often turn into a malignant form.
Light discharge indicates chronic inflammation in the milk ducts.
Nipple retraction is a very formidable symptom of one of the most severe forms of mastopathy. In such cases, you should immediately consult a doctor.
To stop the disease at the very beginning, if twice a month, regularly conduct self-examinations and do not ignore any changes in the mammary glands.
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