Fibrous-cystic mastopathy: treatment, symptoms and causes

Recently, women are increasingly becoming a disease, like fibrocystic mastopathy. Treatment of this problem should be done by a specialist. According to statistics, mastopathy suffers from 20 to 60% of girls and women.

The disease is the formation of seals in the tissues of the breast. In case of untimely treatment, in some cases it can be transferred to an oncological tumor.

Fibrous-cystic mastopathy, the treatment of which can not be postponed until later, most often occurs on the background of hormonal failures. Stress, nerve strain, chest trauma, menopause, inflammation or organ infections in the pelvis contribute to the onset of the disease. Even abortion can provoke the onset of this disease. Naturally, heredity also plays a role in the emergence of mastopathy.

There are different forms of mastopathy: without proliferation and proliferation of epithelium of different degrees. Fibrocystic mastopathy symptoms can have the following: a feeling of pain in the chest, especially before the start of the menstrual cycle, the presence of small seals in the mammary gland. With the development of the disease, pain passes, and seals increase. One breast can grow and look asymmetrical in relation to the other breast. If mastopathy is sufficiently started, then there may be an appearance of bloody discharge from the nipple. The skin on the site of the tumor can turn red.

Diagnosis of the disease is multifaceted. The patient not only takes various tests, but also carries out ultrasound of the breast, as well as radiographic examination of the breast. The images should show enlightenment on the site of the formation of the cyst. As for the tests, then surely the blood is checked for hormones. Naturally, a biological study of the cyst tissue is carried out for the presence of malignant cells.

With such a disease as fibrocystic mastopathy, treatment is necessarily carried out in a complex. First of all, it is aimed at regulating the work of the hormonal system, treating infections and inflammation of the genital organs. It is also necessary to stop the pathological growth of tissue in the mammary gland.

Further, fibrocystic mastopathy, which is treated at home and in a medical facility, is influenced by physiotherapy procedures (electrophoresis may be an example), but only according to the doctor's prescription! Women under forty years during the year receive microdoses of potassium iodide, which should stop the growth of tissues in the gland.

Mastopathy fibrotic requires additional treatment of concomitant diseases, which can be its cause. If necessary, the patient undergoes an operation to remove the cysts. All removed cysts should be checked for the presence of malignant cells.

For the prevention of the disease, you need to contact the doctor with the slightest suspicion of seals in the chest, do not allow the hormonal balance to be disturbed, and if you break it, try to correct the situation. The first signs of the disease should make a woman go to a mammologist for timely treatment.