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 OTHER NAMES
- Mastalgia.
- Mastodinia.
- Hypersensitivity of the breasts.
DESCRIPTION
A painful breast is when his sensibility increases to the rubbing or pressure or presents a spontaneous pain that is not habitual.
This pain can be normal at the end of the menstrual cycles and in the pregnancy.
In the adolescent men also this symptom of normal form takes place for the proper hormonal alterations of the puberty, which produce an inflammation of the nipples with pain.
CAUSES OF THE PAIN OF BREASTS
The habitual and not pathological causes can be:
- The premenstrual tension of the breasts,
- The pregnancy, with more less intensity depending the month of the same one,
- The puberty in men and women,
- The lactation,
- In the premenopause.
The pathological causes of mammary pain can be:
- The fibrosis quística of the breasts.
- The mastitis, which is a quite habitual infection in the lactation.
- In the alcoholism advanced with hepatic damage, since it produces ginecomastia.
- Traumatism.
- Medicines: Digitalis, diuretics and others.
- Infections for herpes.
TREATMENT
What it is necessary to do is to avoid the cause.
In the pain of breasts produced by the fibrosis quística it can improve drinking less coffee, taking vitamins supplements E and B, taking less greasy food and more vegetable fibre and sometimes it is necessary hormonal treatments under prescription of his doctor.
In the pain produced by the mastitis antibiotics or drainages are used if the infection has concentrated on a mammary abscess.
In the pain by a traumatism cold compresses must be applied and take anti-inflammatory not steroids (AINEs).
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