Enlarged nipples

Introduction Both men and women may have large nipple symptoms. Female nipple hypertrophy is caused by genetic factors or by nipple sensitivity to stimuli. The nipple is too large to be primary, more common in unmarried women, but also caused by sucking and sucking in children.

Cause

There are many reasons for women's nipples. Generally, there are sexual breasts in which the orgasm is swollen, the endocrine breasts are swollen, or the breasts of pregnant breasts are swollen.

Most of the reasons for male nipples are due to the disease factor. Male breast hyperplasia is called male breast development.

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Occurs before and after puberty and old age, the pathological manifestations of ductal hyperplasia without acinar hyperplasia, generally can be divided into two major categories of primary and secondary, the primary is usually adolescent boys and older men, Mainly due to transient increase of endogenous estrogen or decreased androgen, often self-resolving, secondary is common in liver disease, testicular disease, adrenal disease, thyroid disease, diabetes and genitourinary system or nervous system Tumors, prostatic disease long-term use of estrogen, or other diseases long-term use of some drugs, such as: reserpine, remi seal, digitalis, chlorpromazine, etc. can also cause breast development, usually disappear after stopping. In addition, hermaphroditism, congenital testicular dysplasia, can also lead to breast hypertrophy.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of nipple hypertrophy:

1, male breasts: male breast development is more common, seen in some normal physiological state, can also be seen in certain diseases.

2, the breast is huge: adult female breast hypertrophy symptoms and signs of breasts huge, hypertrophic mammary gland is mostly drooping or gourd scoop-shaped nipples have more sag and shifting breasts, each up to 5000 ~ 6000g or even tens of kilograms Flat navel to knee.

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