1, breast care for adolescent women
When women enter puberty, their breasts increase rapidly and their weight increases accordingly. The breasts swing left and right or jump up and down with physical activities, which is easy to cause discomfort or inconvenience. Therefore, it is necessary to wear appropriate underwear to prevent breast discomfort, injury or sagging caused by vibration. Young people should not wear bras too early. Don't wear tight underwear or bra to avoid nipple retraction due to long-term pressure; People with inverted nipples can often suck their nipples with breast pumps to make them bulge, which is conducive to breastfeeding in the future; Clean nipples frequently to prevent nipple infection, chapping and erosion.
2, menstrual breast maintenance
Breast tissue hyperplasia is active before menstruation, and it recovers after menstruation. Many women will have breast pain and discomfort about a week before menstruation, so special attention should be paid to breast maintenance during this time. When you come to menstruation, you should keep a happy mood, pay attention to the law of life, and don't take drugs indiscriminately, so as to avoid endocrine system disorder and cause pathological changes; People with obvious premenstrual breast pain can take some analgesic and sedative drugs appropriately, which can relieve the pain to some extent; People who have received birth control, sterilization or taking contraceptive drugs need medical treatment for breast pain.
3. Breast care during pregnancy
During pregnancy, women's breasts are further enlarged and plump, nipple areola pigment is deepened, and sebaceous glands are developed. During this period, breast maintenance should pay attention to wearing appropriate underwear to hold up the breast to avoid breast sagging or breast tissue damage. Women with flat or invaginated nipples should always use their fingers or breast pumps to pull their nipples to make them stand upright. Pay attention to the cleanliness of nipples, wash the dirt secreted by nipples with warm water, and properly apply skin care products without irritation and side effects; Massage the nipple and areola skin with clean and soft cotton cloth to thicken the nipple and areola skin and enhance the tolerance of mechanical stimulation during breastfeeding; Pay attention to nipple and breast health care about two months before delivery to prevent acute mastitis.
4. Breast maintenance during lactation
In order to prevent nipple and areola injury during lactation, wash nipple and areola with warm water every day; Nipples are easily contaminated with dirt or water, so it is necessary to pay attention to frequent cleaning to prevent nipple erosion and chapping. In addition, it is necessary to prevent dirt from invading the breast parenchyma from nipple ducts or other damaged places, and even cause secondary infection of the breast;
The time and frequency of breastfeeding should be regular every day, usually once every three to four hours. Pay attention to breastfeeding on both sides in turn. Suck the baby clean every time. If there is milk residue, it should be gently massaged and squeezed out, which is beneficial to the regular lactation of breast tissue.
Taking the correct breastfeeding posture is beneficial to the local blood circulation of the breast, which is usually beneficial to emptying the milk and protecting the lactation function; Don't let the baby sleep with the nipple, so as not to cause nipple damage.
During lactation, choose a bra with soft texture, high water absorption and appropriate size to prevent breast sagging or breast damage due to impact.
5. Maintain breasts through diet
You can eat some foods with high calorie, high protein and high fat content, and some foods that can increase hormone secretion. Vitamin e can regulate the normal secretion of hormones, so foods containing vitamin e can be eaten more; B vitamins, protein and linolenic acid are also indispensable ingredients for human body to synthesize estrogen. Eating more foods containing these ingredients can help the secretion of estrogen and promote the normal development of breasts and nipples.
6, the correct bath maintenance breast
Proper breast cleaning and breast massage during bathing are helpful to strengthen local blood circulation, thus causing morphological changes of breast tissue. The water temperature for breast cleaning should be around 40 degrees. It is best to drink a glass of water before and after bathing to help replenish water and help metabolism. Massage the breast before bathing, draw an arc from the bottom of the breast with a bathing cotton or a bathing brush, and clean the breast outward. If the breasts are too small, you can use a towel that alternates between hot and cold. If you want to prevent sagging breasts, you can use the shower head to wash the breasts from bottom to top, massage around the breasts in circles, increase tension and keep the breasts firm. After washing, apply massage milk to gently massage the breast, which is helpful to promote local blood circulation, make breast skin shiny and elastic, and prevent breast skin from aging and relaxation.
7. Maintain breasts by massage
Regular massage of the breast can make the honeycomb adipose tissue and cystic lobule in the breast develop soundly, and the suspensory ligament of the breast grow sturdily, maintain a certain elasticity and hardness, and become stiff, plump and fit.
Rubbing method: four fingers together, thumbs apart, fingers touching the skin, first rubbing under the armpit from the neck and shoulders, then pushing and rubbing upward from under the chest, then rubbing around the nipple to the axillary lymph nodes, first rubbing gently, then rubbing strongly, and finally rubbing gently.
Kneading method: the limbs are close together, the thumbs are separated into pincers, and the fingers and palms are close to the skin. At first, it is mainly kneading, from the shoulders, neck, chest side to the breast, and the force should be light. Then rub, lift and grasp the muscles along the lymphatic direction, and finally return to the axillary lymph, and repeat for three to five minutes.
8. What do you eat to protect your breasts?
1, jujube
Jujube supplements the spleen and stomach, benefits qi and blood, and is rich in B- carotene, vitamin C and B vitamins. It contains a group of triterpenoids and is an effective anticancer component. Eating jujube regularly can enhance physical fitness and prevent breast cancer.
2. Macroalgae
Kelp is a kind of large edible algae, which not only has health care functions such as beauty, hairdressing and slimming, but also can assist in the treatment of mammary gland hyperplasia. It is found that kelp can relieve hyperplasia of mammary glands because it contains a lot of iodine, which can promote luteinization of follicles, regulate endocrine disorders and reduce the risk of hyperplasia of mammary glands in women.
Step 3: carrots
Carrots contain a lot of carotene. This substance will be converted into vitamin A after entering the body, which is very helpful for maintaining normal epithelial tissues of the human body, making it difficult for carcinogens to invade the body and playing an anti-cancer role.
Step 4: vegetables
The reasonable combination of vegetables and staple food is not only beneficial to health, but also helps to keep breast healthy if the daily diet ensures adequate intake of vegetables and eats more tomatoes, carrots, cauliflower, pumpkins, garlic, onions, asparagus, cucumbers, loofah, radishes and some green leafy vegetables.
Step 5: garlic
The latest research shows that garlic is rich in trace element selenium and has a good anti-breast cancer effect. Therefore, eating garlic regularly can prevent diseases. But it should be noted that when eating garlic, it is best to eat it raw.
6.asparagus
Asparagus is rich in tissue protein and various anticancer substances. It can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Moreover, folic acid, nucleic acid and other beneficial substances in food can also inhibit the spread of cancer cells.
7. Edible fungi
Tremella, Auricularia auricula, Lentinus edodes, Hericium erinaceus, Poria, etc. It is a natural biological response regulator, which can enhance human immunity, enhance the body's resistance, and has a strong anti-cancer effect. Hericium erinaceus contains polysaccharides and peptides, which have a strong inhibitory effect on cancer cells, and at the same time can produce interferon, enhance white blood cells, enhance human immune function, and play a role in preventing and treating cancer. Mushrooms are rich in nutrients and contain essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals, selenium and vitamin D, which can enhance human immunity and help prevent gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.