Mastopathy is a breast disease. Today, many women are familiar with this disease firsthand. Many people manage to overcome it at home, but also a lot of women are forced to turn to specialists for help. The most important thing is to detect the disease in time, since a variety of complications are possible. In the early stages, the disease is much easier to cure.
The main causes of mastopathy
One of the most common diseases in women is mastopathy. The signs of this disease can be very different.
Mastopathy is a benign breast tumor, fibrocystic disease. One of the main causes of this disease is hormonal failure. As a result of this, dysfunction of sex and other hormones also begins. These signs may be a consequence of the following factors:
- One of the main causes is ovarian disease, which can lead to impaired production of the corpus luteum, which leads to a malfunction of the menstrual cycle.
- Disorders of the nervous system have never been beneficial to humans and their vital organs. The mammary glands are no exception. Frequent stresses negatively affect the nervous system, therefore, the function of the sex glands is suppressed. The endocrine system and the thyroid gland are also disrupted, as a result of which hyperplastic processes develop in the chest.
- At birth, the rejection of breastfeeding can also cause the development of breast disease in women.
- Shocks and other types of damage to this area can also cause seals to form.
- One of the causes of mastopathy is also late pregnancy, since during pregnancy there is a complete restructuring of the tissues and cells of the breast.
Forms of mastopathy
Pain with mastopathy appears in all its forms. Today in medicine, several varieties and forms of this disease are shared, which include:
- Nodular mastopathy. With this form, a nodular formation appears in the chest (one or more), while such seals can be in one breast, and in both at the same time. This form of mastopathy is often the initial stage of cancer. It is necessary to take various drugs for mastopathy. In some cases, even surgical intervention is required.
- Fibrocystic mastopathy (diffuse). During the examination, a huge amount of granular seals in the chest can be detected in the chest. As a rule, this form does not require surgical intervention, in most cases therapeutic treatment is performed.
Symptoms of mastopathy
If even the simplest disease is detected, it is necessary to sound the alarm and not let everything go by its own accord, since in some cases even the most minor symptoms can indicate a serious illness. Mastopathy is no exception. Often, when people simply did not pay any attention to this disease, it became complicated and in some cases grew into breast cancer. That is why it is worth immediately contacting a doctor at the first suspicion. Common symptoms of the disease may include the following:
- Pain in the premenstrual period, a feeling of discomfort, heaviness in the chest. In some cases, with more complex forms of the disease, pain in the shoulder blades of a local nature is very often felt. Basically, pain appears for a certain period of time before menstruation.
- Axillary lymph nodes are enlarged - it can also be mastopathy. As a rule, only 10 percent of women feel them with signs of this kind.
- A very common symptom is discharge from the nipples. If such secretions are found, you should immediately contact a mammologist;
- With mastopathy, the breast also swells very often. This process, as a rule, is accompanied by headaches, discomfort, disruption of the gastrointestinal tract, is accompanied by pain in the chest, swelling and so on.
- The formation of nodes in the chest, which can be independently detected by self-examination.
It does not matter how the above symptoms appear - all together or individually - you must immediately consult a doctor in order to prescribe a medicine for mastopathy, or start an independent treatment with traditional medicine with the coordination of certain methods with the doctor.
Disease prevention
Everyone knows that getting sick in today's time is a very big blow to the family budget. So, the minimum course of treatment for a disease such as mastopathy is several months. Treatment is carried out by various expensive means. Therefore, it is best to think about disease prevention from time to time.
For this, it is constantly necessary to undergo examinations at mammologists, take various kinds of vitamins, and so on. It is also strictly forbidden to wear a tight or tight bra that leaves any marks on the body. It is also necessary to monitor nutrition, eat food that contains a huge amount of iodine. You can not drink alcoholic beverages, you need to avoid stressful situations. In any case, you need to protect the chest from damage and any injuries.
If you follow all these rules, you can prevent the manifestation of mastopathy at any age.
Mastopathy: treatment, drugs
If the prevention of the disease did not solve the problem, and yet it made itself felt, treatment of the disease may be prescribed.
The most common breast disease, as already mentioned, is mastopathy. Signs of this disease have already been identified. Next, some hardware methods for treating this disease will be determined.
If a woman has pain only a few days before menstruation, then treatment is not prescribed, since this is a completely natural phenomenon. In the event that the patient is found to have fibrotic mastopathy, she will be prescribed treatment with various medical devices. First of all, medicines that are designed to stabilize the hormonal balance in the body will be selected. In addition to this, it will be necessary to constantly take some vitamin complexes that will help stop the development of the disease. In addition, drugs such as Mastodinon solution and ointment, Progestogel gel, drops on Tazalok herbs and other means aimed at completely preventing the development of the disease can be prescribed.
If the pain is permanent, and if fibrocystic mastopathy is diagnosed, drugs that are more effective can be used. As a rule, in such cases, it is necessary to carry out treatment exclusively under the supervision of an oncologist. In some cases, surgery may be prescribed. Mastopathy is a progressive disease, so if you run it, the operation can not be avoided.
It is worth considering that self-medication can be harmful to health, so in any case, you need to contact highly qualified specialists who will be able to perfectly select the drugs based on the results of the analyzes and ultrasound examination. In no case should you independently prescribe yourself a remedy for mastopathy, as this can cause an even more intensive development of the disease and harm your health.
Hormone therapy for mastopathy
Correction of the hormonal background should in any case be carried out if a malfunction in the body was detected during a blood test. Fibrous cystic mastopathy of the mammary glands is treated with the following hormonal drugs:
- Androgens - drugs that produce the synthesis of gonadotropic hormones of the pituitary gland.
- Analogs of LGRF.
- Antiestrogens.
- Gestagens.
- Medications to suppress the synthesis of prolactin and so on.
If this disease of the mammary glands is detected in women, self-treatment with hormonal drugs is strictly prohibited.
Surgical treatment for mastopathy
If several nodes were found during the examination, then breast mastopathy can be treated with surgical intervention. As a rule, exclusively experienced doctors operate on patients. During surgery, all nodes are removed from the chest and sent for histological examination. After the operation, a certain rehabilitation complex is carried out, which allows the breast to fully recover and prevents the possibility of a re-manifestation of the disease in the future.
Mastopathy - treatment, drugs, traditional medicine
With the manifestation of this disease, traditional medicine is often used. Treatment of mastopathy in such cases occurs on the basis of certain herbal preparations, which significantly strengthen the immune system. A variety of compresses are also used.
As a rule, in such cases, complexes of herbal preparations in certain proportions are used. Here are a few herbal-based recipes that will come in handy when this disease occurs:
- In equal proportions, it is necessary to mix the leaves of birch, raspberry, plantain, calendula and chamomile flowers, burdock and dandelion roots , rose hips and red mountain ash, St. John's wort, sweet clover and millennial. All this pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and let it brew in a thermos. Drink the 3rd part of a glass 4 times a day.
- In equal proportions, mix motherwort grass, fennel and caraway seeds and valerian root. Pour a glass of boiling water over one tablespoon of the mixture, let it brew for half an hour. Drink half a glass 3 times a day.
- With two glasses of boiling water, pour 3 tablespoons of the common cuff. Leave the mixture for 4 hours. It must be taken in the third part of the glass before each meal.
Herbal compresses
If the diagnosis is confirmed, it makes sense to connect treatment with folk remedies. There are effective compresses for mastopathy, which, of course, should not be done without the knowledge of a doctor. Here are a few of them.
Beets with honey. Beets must be grated and add honey to it. Then put this mixture on the chest, wrap it with polyethylene and tie something warm. You need to do this compress for three weeks. The result will begin to show itself after this time.
Compress with garlic. For 100 grams of butter, squeeze the juice from one large clove of garlic. After that, you should rub the mixture with your chest and wrap yourself with a cotton cloth all night. This cure for mastopathy is very effective.
Propolis. The product must be dissolved in a water bath to a semi-liquid state. Put the resulting hot mixture on a napkin and wait until it has completely cooled to room temperature. To put on a breast, and to put on top warm woolen clothes to strengthen effect from a compress.
Kalanchoe and honey. There is nothing complicated in the preparation of the mixture, you just need to mix the ground Kalanchoe plant and honey in a 1: 1 ratio. For several months, use one tablespoon in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before bedtime.
Garlic oil for mastopathy. To prepare the mixture, you need to crush 50 grams of garlic and pour it with 100 grams of sunflower oil. This mixture must be refrigerated. Use the product for a month 3 minutes before a meal in a teaspoon. Take at least three times a day, you can also simultaneously use a teaspoon of lemon juice.
Celandine ointment . Celandine is necessary, when it blooms, twist in a meat grinder. After this, it is necessary to squeeze the juice from the celandine. This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator for a year, nothing will happen to it. In order to get the ointment, you need to take half a glass of celandine juice and half a glass of butter or lard and melt it. After that, you need to mix the oil and juice until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. The oil plays the role of a thickener, since after it reaches room temperature, you will get a uniform ointment, which will need to be applied to the chest for 2-3 hours, and on top you need to put on polyethylene and a bra. The procedure should be repeated every 2-3 days for a month. For prevention, you can be treated this way once a quarter.
Beetroot treatment. Grate 200 grams of red beets, heat the resulting mixture in a water bath, and then add two tablespoons of 12 percent vinegar. Mix the resulting mixture and put on the chest, but it is forbidden to squeeze it. Put a compress on top. It is necessary to leave it all night, after which in the morning you need to remove the compress and wrap it with a woolen scarf. Treatment should be carried out over ten procedures.
Cabbage with mastopathy. Very often cabbage saves with mastopathy. For treatment with this method, you need to take a leaf of cabbage, grease it on one side with oil, sprinkle with a small amount of salt and attach to a sore chest. On top of the cabbage you need to attach a towel, put on a bra and go to bed. You can remove the compress only in the morning.
In the morning, chest pain disappears, all the juices of cabbage are completely absorbed into the skin, and the leaf becomes so light that it even appears through. Continue treatment throughout the week every day. This method of treating mastopathy is the most effective of folk remedies.
Folk remedies for mastopathy are much cheaper than various medical products, and at the same time they are very effective. Repeatedly this disease was treated precisely with folk remedies. Nevertheless, a consultation with a mammologist is necessary.
Why you can not start the disease
One of the most common breast diseases is precisely mastopathy. The signs of this disease are obvious, and sometimes you can determine it yourself. As a rule, if you suspect this disease, you should immediately consult a doctor to prescribe treatment. Very often, the cause of cancer of the breast can be precisely mastopathy, the reviews of those who have been ill confirm this.
In any case, this disease must be treated in order to prevent the possibility of various additional diseases and complications. Do not neglect the symptoms of the disease, immediately at the first manifestations, contact the clinic in order to prevent the development of the disease. Only under the supervision of highly qualified specialists can this disease be completely cured.