Confusion: nipple inversion
Although the third party can not see your inverted nipple, you will feel uncomfortable to look at your breast. People with inverted nipple are considered as unusual breast deformity. It even may be symptom of breast cancer. Before puberty, female breast had not yet developed and the nipple is small. After puberty, your breast begins to develop with the change in endocrine hormone levels and menstrual cycle starting. Your nipple enlarges and points outward gradually. Although unmarried woman or unpregnant women have small nipples, their nipples protrude. If partial or full nipple is retracted into the breast to form volcano mouth, it belongs to inverted nipple. Some girls, who are super shy to deal with breast development, prefer to wear tight-fitting lingerie so that the breast tissue is compressed. Perhaps, premature wear small size bra will squeeze your developing breast so that breast becomes flat. At the same time, it impedes the blood circulation in the breast tissue. Due to insufficient nutrition supply, it affects mammary gland development. Nipple is also squeezed and tucked into the breast to form inverted nipple.There are varying degree of nipple inversion from the slightly inverted nipple to the moderately to severely inverted.
Type I: partial nipple that doesn’t protrude and nipple neck exists. Nipple can be pulled out manually. After pulling out, those people’s nipple size is the same as normal people’s nipple size.
Type II: whole nipple sinks in breast tissue and you can pull nipple out manually. Those people’s nipple size is smaller than normal people’s nipple size and most of them do not have nipple neck.
Type III: Inverted nipple disappearing completely and you can not pull nipple out manually. It not only impairs breast aesthetics but also impede breastfeeding. It is easy to trap and hide dirt on sunken area so it often causes local infection. Mammary duct interlink with sunken area so it may trigger mastitis.Inverted nipple may be congenital malformations or caused by trauma, surgical operation, breast tumors and mastitis. Congenital nipple inversion is caused by bad development of smooth muscle fibres in nipple and areola. These smooth muscle fibres are pulled inward and lack of supporting tissue underneath the nipple so that inverted nipple is formed. Bilateral nipple inversion is commonly found. If you pull nipple out, slightly inverted nipple will be temporarily protrude. Congenital nipple inversion commonly occurred on women without breast-feeding history. Acquired nipple retraction is caused by breast diseases, such as breast cancer and it is often unilateral nipple retraction. Don’t belittle if you have acquired nipple retraction. You should go to specialized hospital to have body check or treatment, such as breast ultrasound, breast x-ray, in order to exclude the possibility of breast cancer. There is another situation: Eczema often recurs on the skin surrounding the nipple area and has skin pruritus. You can not recover after a long period of time. You may get Paget’s disease which is a special type of breast cancer.
Correction and prevention of inverted nipple
Breast upstanding constitute the major part of female beauty and nipple is a focus point. If you have inverted nipple problem, it is good for you to have treatment on time. Under different circumstances, you can use the following methods.
1. You can pull nipple out manually. Girl’s period is an important period for breast development and correct nipple retraction. Always pull nipple out can make your breast more prominent and increase support for surrounding skin. It has shaping effect. Pull nipple out several times a day. After a long period of time, nipple will gradually point outward. If you can’t pull it out, you first push breast skin near the nipple outward.
2. Suction therapy: after pregnancy, Breast reliever should be used to suck on the nipples everyday and make your nipple protrude by its negative pressure naturally.
3. Rectifying nipple inversion or flat nipple by using nipple appliance.
If you or your sister have nipple inversion problem, you should take precaution for your baby. Your baby has a high probability of having inverted nipple due to genetic inheritance. You can gently pull small nipple out to a protruding position 1-2 times a day. Your action must be gentle. It is suitable to let experienced person to do it. Baby has lower probability of having nipple inversion problem when she grows up.
1. Wearing – tight-fitting underwear should be made of cotton. You should change and wash clothes frequently and dry it in the sun. If you have nipple redness or cracks, your underwear should be disinfected by boiling. Girl should not prematurely wear bra.
2. Prevent breast compression – Wear good fitting, not tight fitting underwear or bra. Girls avoid prone sleeping position for prevention of breast compression and inverted nipple aggravation.
Pregnant women with inverted nipple should specially take care of nipple health and sanitation after birth. Pregnant women with slightly inverted nipple increase the frequency of baby sucking appropriately and protect your nipple at the same time. After breastfeeding, your breast is washed for prevention of infection. If your nipple gets red, you go to hospital to have treatment on time to prevention of mastitis.
Hazards of inverted nipple
1. It hinders breastfeeding.
2. Because of inverted nipple, nipple is always forced to pull out during breastfeeding. At this moment, nipple is very tender. If it is collided, it is easy to get hurt, broken and bleeding. It results in nipple or whole breast infection and produces mastitis.
3. Nipple is very important female’s sex sensitive area. Many females achieve sexual satisfaction through nipple stimulation. If your nipple sink down into breast tissue, it is difficult to elicit strong sex stimulation. It even influences male sexual desire.
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