Breast Self Exam

Every woman must care for her breast to have it healthy and beauty. And among duties of woman is a Breast Self Exam that means an annual examine of the condition of the breast in clinics or at your own doctors. It is necessary to check the breast at all periods of woman’s life, beginning with the period of puberty and finishing by the period of menopause. It is the time when the woman’s breast has many changes affected by hormones, diet, or exercise. For an example, at puberty period a girl stops to be a girl and enters the maturing process: a menstruation is appearing, hairs are growing in different parts of the body, and acne is noticed on the skin. As for breast tissue, it is also developing and becoming round, dense and firm.

It is also advisable to find out from your female relatives whether they had ever had fibrocystic or cystic problems connected with their breasts. There is a chance that you may have it, but not for sure, as cysts are benign. 

At the period of becoming pregnant and breastfeeding your breast is also changing and need to be checked, as breast may become larger and sensitive at the period of pregnancy. You should also know that pregnancy and breastfeeding will help to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

At the period of Menopause your breast tissue may become less firm, sag and have more lumps and bumps.( But for you to know that 90% of breast lumps are benign). Such changes are connected with the level of estrogen and progesterone that usually diminish at this period. But if you go through breast exams regularly in these years too, you will be able to avoid many problems.