Diagnosis galaktorei

• Physical examination
• Blood test
• A pregnancy test for women
• Analysis of the liquid released by the mammary glands
• Mammography
• MRI (check for a tumor)

Treatment

The procedure for treatment of excessive lactation depends on the cause of this condition.

• If the reason was the galaktorei tumor recommended special medications or surgery.
• If the cause of galactorrhea started taking drugs, receiving these drugs should be stopped or cut down under a doctor's supervision.
• If the cause of galactorrhea is the decline of thyroid function The thyroid gland - is responsible for your hormones Appointed special medications stimulate the gland and compensating hormone deficiency.
• In many cases, treatment is not required galactorrhea - time excess lactation ceases by itself.

How to prevent galactorrhea?

Although in itself is not considered a disease galactorea and does not threaten the health of women, excessive lactation causes some discomfort. To prevent the emergence galaktorei possible, adhering to a few simple rules:

• Avoid wearing tight, tight-fitting clothing or clothing that may cause stimulation of the breasts.
• Avoid excessive stimulation of the breast during sexual intercourse.
• If excess lactation caused by certain medications, use of these drugs should be discontinued and replaced them on the cause of this condition is not medicine.

Why and how to start breast

Woman's menstrual cycle is divided into two halves. The first half is oocyte maturation in the ovary (which is in a special bubble - follicle) under the influence of female hormones estrogen and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) of the pituitary gland. As soon as the egg matures, it goes from the ovary (ovulation) in the fallopian tubes, where fertilization takes its sperm.

After ovulation Ovulation - How to determine as accurately as possible?   comes the second period of the menstrual cycle, during which the on-site ruptured follicle in the ovary under the influence of luteinizing hormone (LH), the pituitary gland is formed a temporary endocrine gland - yellow body, releasing the female sex hormone progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology . If pregnancy does not occur by the end of the menstrual cycle, the corpus luteum stops functioning and becomes a small scar.

Simultaneously, under the action of hormones in mammary gland are performed monthly cyclical changes in the form of a small edema and increase in size before menses and postmenses reduction.

Breast disease - is a disease that occurs in a variety of hormonal disorders in women and has a clear link with the menstrual cycle. When under the influence of some unfavorable factors hormones is disturbed, it promotes the proliferation of connective tissue and the formation of cysts in mammary glands. In the mammary glands appear swelling and soreness in the mammary glands, and changes in the mammary gland, specific to the second half of the menstrual cycle are stored and after menstruation. Such changes can occur equally in both breasts (diffuse disease of the breast) or in the form of units in size from a pea to a walnut and more (nodular breast).

Stimulate the emergence of mastitis female sex hormones estrogen and the pituitary hormone prolactin. Female sex hormone progesterone, on the contrary, it hinders development. Since the work of the endocrine glands are interrelated, on the breast is also affected by the hormones of the adrenal glands, thyroid gland under the control of the brain called the hypothalamus.

What happens with mastopathy during pregnancy

If pregnancy occurs, then a week after conception, the embryo start to allocate nap chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which stimulates the secretion of progesterone by the corpus luteum until the 12th week of pregnancy, after this period all the hormones secreted by the placenta and ripe yellow body ceases to exist. But the amount of progesterone continues to be high throughout the pregnancy, because it prevents contraction of the muscles of the uterus (and thus the spontaneous miscarriage).

Under the influence of progesterone effects can significantly reduce mastitis. But it is mainly concerned with diffuse mastopathy, if there mammary nodes, they are generally not tested.

When pregnancy is increased and the number of other interested hormone - prolactin, which prepares the mammary gland for lactation. The very same lactation is suppressed by the action of progesterone. After delivery, the allocation of progesterone decreases sharply in breast milk appears. Prolactin during pregnancy and breast-feeding the baby does not stimulate the development of mastitis, as busy with his business - first preparing the mammary glands for lactation (under his influence, improves blood flow to the breasts, the formation of new channels, which will be allocated to milk), and then the most lactation.

The process of lactation reduces mastitis, so most women are advised to breastfeed her child. But it is believed that breastfeeding after a year will have no benefit and harm - prolactin again take for stimulating proliferation of abnormal tissue in the breast.

A particularly negative effect on the female body abortion: abortion is a dramatic change can permanently hormones, causing a decrease in progesterone release and increased excretion of estrogen, and thus pave the way for the development of diffuse first and then hub of mastitis. Nodal same breast Breast - the mirror Women's Health   dangerous because the nodes occurs proliferation of epithelial tissue, cells that will eventually alter its appearance, that is, become abnormal characteristic of such terrible diseases as breast cancer Breast cancer: what every woman needs to know . Therefore, women with node mastopathy should be observed carefully and promptly operated.