Women's Health Blog

When a girl reaches her puberty stage, the breasts are the first noticeable features. You will notice that there is a gradual change on its size. Same thing goes for women who are in the pregnancy period. Their breasts will increased in size that are for the purpose of gestation. The breast is the most important part of a woman’s body. That is why there are several ways on how to take good care of your breast.

Using a bra support is a must for every woman. Because breast is made up of mammary gland and fats, there will come a time that it will become sagging as you get older. The collagen becomes thinner making the skin not firm. To prevent from having a sagging breast, it is recommended to practice wearing bra support at your early age or in puberty stage. Be sure to choose the right size of bra that fits you. There are a lot of kind of bras today that can be used that are suitable for any kind of dresses and occasions.

Some women are not satisfied with the size of their breast. That is why some are taking some breast enlargement pills to increase their breast size. These pills commonly have estrogen which allows the production of excessive genes that made some changes in breast size. But having oral pills is not recommended especially when it is taken without doctor’s prescription. Taking too much of estrogen may result on having breast cancer.

Doing a regular breast massage is definitely the best way to have a healthy breast. Thus, it could help the skin to be tighter and also helps to increase the size of your breast.

First thing to do is to relax your body by lying down on the bed. Place your left hand at the back of your head while placing your three fingers with your right hand on top of your left breast. Do it in a clockwise circular motion. Gently and slowly press down your breast by your fingers, rotating, starting from the nipple and massage until you reach your underarm area. Repeat the same procedure to your right breast with your left hand to massage.

This will help you not only to increase the size of your breast but also to know if there is some breast mass that are forming. It could be an early detection measure to prevent from having some breast problems.

Women & Incidence of Malignancy:

Women are more prone to suffer cancer of the reproductive organs, which includes the breast also. It is necessary that breast should be regularly self examined and if any irregularly observed it should be brought to the notice of the doctor for further investigation to rule out malignancy of the breasts and if confirmed the treatment my be started immediately with regular follow ups.

Self Examination of breasts:

Most probably malignancy of breasts are associated with presence of hard tissue. Tumors may not be exactly as described, there may be variations in description. Any variance felt by you, requires examination and investigation by a doctor. Although a normal mammogram is reported, if there is tissue hardness it needs to be further evaluated, to completely rule out a cancer possibility.

• Standing facing the mirror with arms at sides. Observe any change of size, breast contours, or color of skin of breasts, or any differentiating surface appearance. Look for any discharge taking place. A blood like discharge requires further investigation by the doctor immediately.

• Hold your hands firmly behind your head and observe the changes in the mirror in respect of size, shape of breasts. Now keep your hands on the hips and bend forward and observe any change in the breast structure.

• Lye down on your back on the bed, which provides an easy approach to examine undersides of breasts and the breasts are spread naturally support less now abnormalities can be felt more precisely with comfort.

• Keeping your left hand behind head, by using the three middle fingers of right hand experience presence of hard mass beneath skin of left breast. Make little circular movements and now begin below left collarbone, put pressure of fingers in a small area comprising a quarter of the area of breast and feel the underlying structures for any hard stuff superficially or deeper inside breast tissues to look for something differing in general consistency of the breast in any manner. Similar checks can be made in the rest of breast also

Presence of Hard Tissue in Breasts:

It is quite normal for breasts having some hard tissue in breasts, or for one to be slightly larger or lower than the other.

Make an appointment with your doctor if you do come across something that seems atypical. If what you’ve noticed is indeed suspect. A pathologist doctor shall help the lady by removing a small suspected tissue and have it analysed to rule out presence of cancer. There should be no delay and good news is that more than 80 % chances are there is no cancer involvement, it can be a harmless benign tumour. The surgeon can safely remove it by a small operation.

After the age of 40 women should have their breasts mammography investigations done every year. Women are having a high risk of breast cancer. Besides annual mammography, women likely to have a risk of breast cancer should get magnetic resonance imaging.