Mammary duct ectasia, is a benign
(non-cancerous) breast condition that occurs when a milk duct in the
breast widens (dilated) and its walls thicken. This can cause
the duct to become blocked and lead to fluid build-up. It's more
common in women who are getting close to menopause.
Duct ectasia doesn’t cause breast cancer, nor does it increase your risk of
developing it. However, it can lead to an infection
Symptoms:
- Redness or tenderness around your nipple and areola
- An inverted nipple (a nipple that turns inward)
- Unusual nipple discharge
- Pain in the affected nipple (this symptom isn’t as common as the
other symptoms)
Causes:
Duct
ectasia is usually caused by aging. It’s common in women who are
approaching menopause or going through menopause. However, some women
develop duct ectasia after going through menopause.
As you
age, the milk ducts under your areola become shorter and wider. This can cause
fluid to collect in the ducts, which can clog them and lead to irritation. Mammary duct ectasia results from inflammation
(swelling). This inflammation causes a milk duct within the breast to
widen and thicken. As inflammation worsens, milk ducts become blocked, and
fluid builds up behind the blockage. Having
an inverted nipple or smoking can also increase your risk of developing duct
ectasia.
Managements:
To relieve discomfort associated with mammary
duct ectasia, you might try these self-care measures:
1.
Apply warm
compresses. A warm compress applied to your nipple and surrounding area may
soothe painful breast tissue.
2.
Use breast pads for nipple discharge.
...
3.
Wear a support bra. ...
4.
Sleep on the opposite side. ...
5.
Stop smoking.
6.
Surgery. If an
abscess has developed and antibiotics and self-care don't work, the affected
milk duct may be surgically removed. This procedure is done through a tiny
incision at the edge of the colored tissue around your nipple (areola). Surgery
rarely is needed for mammary duct ectasia.
HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS:
You need to consult a nearest good homoeopath for
treatment. You would have to narrate your all complain to your doctor, probably
he will also ask some question to understand your problem better. According to
symptoms present in patient following medicine can be given.
GRAPHITIS:
- Hard cicatrices, repeated
abscess on breast.
- Suitable remedy for
climacteric ages of women.
- Mostly patient are
fair, fatty, chilly and often suffered from constipation with delayed menstrual
history.
- Mammae swollen and
hard, nipples sore, cracked blistered.
CONIUM:
- This drug is “BALM
OF GILEAD” for disease of old maids and women during and after climacteric.
- Patient perspires
day and night as soon as he sleeps or even when closing eyes.
- Breast enlarges and become painful before and
during menses (I have treated many patients according this symptom).
- Glandular
induration and stony hardness of breast in person of cancerous tendency or
having cancer history in family.
- Breast sore, hard
and painful before and during menstruation.
- Bad effect of
suppressed sexual desire or suppressed menses. Patient wants to press breast
hard with hands.
PHYTOLACCA:
- Breast is sore,
hard, painful, especially when suppuration in inevitable,.
- When child nurses
pain goes from nipple all over body (goes to back, croton tig: to uterus,
Pulsatilla, silicea).
- Mammary abscess;
fistula, gaping, angry ulcers; Pus sanious, ichorous, foetid, unhealthy.
- Tumefied breast
neither heals nor suppurates is of a purple hue and “hard as old cheese’.
SILICEA:
- Nipple is drawn
like a funnel. Nipples very sore
- Great debility and
weariness; wants to be lie down.
- Intolerable, sour,
carrion like odour of feet, without perspiration.
- Fistulous ulcer of
breast. Hard lumps on breast.
- Dr. Bhupendra Gupta
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