What are the symptoms of congenital breast hyperplasia?

Fibrocystic breast disease is a breast disease that can affect both men and women, but there are more female patients than male patients. This is also related to the fact that women's breast structures are slightly different from men's. However, breast hyperplasia is generally caused by abnormal hormone secretion. Some patients are also caused by certain inflammations. Although congenital breast hyperplasia is not common, its harm is the most serious. So what are the specific symptoms of congenital breast hyperplasia?

Breast pain and lumps are the main clinical manifestations of this disease.

(1) Breast pain: It is often characterized by distending pain or stabbing pain, which may affect one or both breasts, with one breast being more severe. Patients with severe pain cannot touch the breast, and the pain may even affect their daily life and work. The pain is mainly in the breast lump, and may also radiate to the affected armpit, chest, flank, shoulder and back; some people experience nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation and is significantly relieved or disappears after menstruation. The pain may also fluctuate with mood changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and emotional changes is the main feature of the clinical manifestations of hyperplasia of the breast.

(2) Breast lumps: Breast lumps can occur in one or both breasts, in one or more lumps, and are more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast, but can also occur in other quadrants. The shapes of the lumps include flake-shaped, nodular-shaped, cord-shaped, granular-shaped, etc., among which the flake-shaped is the most common. The lump has unclear boundaries, is of medium or slightly hard texture, has good mobility, has no adhesion to surrounding tissues, and is often tender. The lumps vary in size, with small ones being as big as millet grains and large ones exceeding 3 to 4 cm. Breast lumps also change with the menstrual cycle. The lumps become larger and harder before menstruation, and shrink and soften after menstruation.

(3) Nipple discharge: A small number of patients may experience nipple discharge, which is spontaneous and straw-yellow or brown serous.

(4) Menstrual disorders: Patients with this disease may experience irregular menstruation, scanty or light-colored menstruation, and may also experience dysmenorrhea.

(5) Emotional changes: Patients often feel depressed or irritable, which worsens when they are angry, stressed or tired.

This article has made a detailed analysis of the symptoms of congenital breast hyperplasia. In fact, no matter what causes the breast hyperplasia, the patient can only solve the problem by actively receiving treatment. Many patients give up treatment because their breast hyperplasia has no clinical symptoms. In fact, this is a very undesirable method. I hope that all patients can understand this.