What Is Breast Tenderness?
Heaviness of breast with tingling sensation is depicted as breast tenderness. On being touched, pressed or palpated the swollen breast causes immense pain. When running or walking also the breast causes tremendous pain, revealing tenderness of the breast. Breast tenderness is not gender-specific as it affects both the males and the females with tingling pain during puberty or hormonal fluctuations. But ratio of the women exceeds that of the men, susceptible to such condition, as hormonal changes take place in women much faster in comparison with their male counterparts. Breast tenderness, caused due to hormonal fluctuations, can be tolerated if its occurrence is temporary, but it has got to become a big complication provided it persists for long, turning into a chronic condition. Chronic tenderness in the breast needs medical attention as it may be the outcome malignant disease.
Symptoms of Breast Tenderness
Breast tenderness is characterized by high sensitivity of breast due to swelling on it. It causes inflammatory pain on being touched or palpated with fingers. It is often compared with tingling sensation as well, as it triggers a stinging or prickling when treated, even if mildly, with fingers. Breast tenderness occurs when moving with loose bra or without bra as it’s shaking randomly causes jerk over it, tormenting the women extensively with breast sore.
If breast soreness is the result of breast cancer it may be symptomized by cystic lumps, relentless pain and discharge as well. It is a rare condition but can affect anyone else. If such symptoms are noticed over the painful breast, bring it to doctor’s notice causing any delay on your part.
Breast Tenderness Causes:
Following are a few common causes of breast tenderness.
- Enlargement of Breast- Swelling on breast is one of the common causes of breast tenderness, seen mostly in the pregnant women. Caused due to hormonal changes in the body it causes breast even of the teenagers (during their puberty) to swell to a large extent but pregnant women are prone to this condition much more. Abrupt swelling on breast causes a strain within its smaller tissues, causing thereby pain in the breast of pregnant women, a critical condition known as breast tenderness.
- Breast Infection- Also known as mastitis, it is another cause of breast tenderness, affecting mostly the lactating women. Breast infection is caused due to blockage in the milk ducts of female breast. Such condition allows bacteria to encroach into the small breast-tissues and trigger thereon breast infection, a painful condition of breast, identified as breast tenderness.
- Unexpressed Breast Milk- Largely produced milk in a lactating woman’s breast exerts a pressure within the breast-tissues and causes soreness or tenderness in the breast. If breast-milk is expressed properly then pain subsides naturally, providing prompt respite from tormenting pain in the breast. The women, suffering from breast tenderness, due to such condition, should feed breast-milk to their baby or compress their sore breast with warm water to remove excessively-stored milk of theirs engorged breast.
- Disordered Levels of Hormone- Affecting mostly the women during their menopause and pregnancy such condition also is one of the common causes of breast tenderness. Due to hormonal fluctuations, the breast starts forming milk ducts within it for the sake of an unborn baby, being nurtured in woman’s womb. And its effect is very natural to be seen in female breast enlarging extensively and causing thereby breast tenderness. [Read more about the early signs of pregnancy.]
- Misbalanced Estrogen- Estrogen is a steroid hormone, produced in female ovary. Any kind of such randomization of hormone in female body causes breast to swell and increases its sensitivity which makes it susceptible to pain or tenderness of breast.
- Premenstrual Period & Menstruation Cycle- During these period a female body undergoes hormonal changes that is one of the common causes of painful breast, characterized by swelling and pain.
- Breast Cancer- It is a dreaded disease, malignant in nature, which also cause persisting tenderness in woman’s breast. If pain in breast is persistent and not going-off, despite massage or ice-pack therapy, you should bring it to a doctor’s notice as its chances of being malignant in nature cannot be ruled out. Affecting the inner lining of the milk ducts (lobules), the breast cancer causes respective region to expand extensively. Such condition of breast is recognized as breast tenderness Breast cancer can’t be detected easily as it matches symptomatically, by its prima-facie observation, with other causes of breast tenderness, characterized by pain, swelling and tingling. It is the lumpy nodes on breast which usually is taken as the sign of breast cancer. A few symptoms, such as discharge from nipples, ridges on breast, breast-deformation, blood-oozing, and lumps in the breast, are the natural signs of breast cancer.
- Express Excessive Breast Milk- If tenderness in breast is the outcome of yours unexpressed milk, you should remove the excessive milk from breast either by offering breast-milk to yours baby or taking warm shower. Reduction of breast itself reduces tenderness, providing great respite from persisting soreness and tingling pain on breast. [Read breastfeeding pain & its treatment.]
- Place Ice Pack- The ice-pack (crushed ice kept in a thing bag) also provides prompt relief from persisting inflammation and pain to be felt when palpating the engorged delicate breast.
- Mild Massage- If breast tenderness is caused during pregnancy then mild massage is to provide relief. The massage causes blood circulation in breast to move that naturally reduces persisting pain and tingling sensation.
- Wear Soft Comfy Bra- The women, suffering from breast tenderness, should neither wear tight bra nor loose bra. A soft padded comfy bra should be worn to avoid breast pain to be caused due either to its tight strips or loose strips. The tight strips of bra exert a pressure on breast, while loose strips allow the painful breast to shake hither-thither and tormenting the woman with pain.
- Vitamin– Add vitamin A and E enriched consumables in your diets to increase natural resisting power and check all the breast tenderness causes.
- Consume Soy Products- Consume plenty of soy-rich products, such as soy milk, soybeans, soy burgers, etc. Soy prevents contrary effects of estrogen and thus provides relief from tenderness in breast.
- Herbal Tea- Drink herbal tea as it flushes out noxious toxins from the body naturally and keeps the all types of breast pain at bay.
- Reduce Salt- Salt causes water retention in the body. It is the retention of water in female breast which cause it to get enlarged during hormonal fluctuations and cause thereby pain and burning sensation in the breast.
- Avoid Caffeine- The caffeine happens to be rich in methylxanthine, a harmful substance, stimulating female breast and affecting it pain or tenderness. So if you are addict of tea, coffee, soda or chocolates, reduce its intakes as a part of precautionary steps. Breast tenderness causes not only a physical complication but mental trauma as well. It can be prevented with nutritious diets and precautionary measures, mentioned in this article.
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