subject: Self Breast Exam Can Be Life Saving [print this page] Changes in women breast are a vital part of breast development in them. These changes are healthy and start appearing outside as well as within breast since childhood then in puberty. These changes continue to happen in pregnancy and then in breast feeding and these are a compulsory part of your menstruation and menopausal phase. Sometimes there happen irregularities in these normal changes which can cause serious aftereffects for your breast health. Hence a regular contact with your breasts in form of examination keeps you alert about these abnormalities.
A self breast exam is executed by a woman on own and it involves a comprehensive feeling and look of whole chest area. As you become familiar with your chest it is very easy for you take out any abnormal change with it. Women who are unfamiliar with how to examine their breasts then it is to inform them that this exam is very easy to carry out and still those women who are confused about this exam they are advised to first undergo a clinical exam of their breasts and then start examination by themselves, but a monthly exam of their chest area is inevitable to catch any breast abnormality sooner.
Execute your breast examination with the objective of breast feel. If you are lying on your couch you can perform it there and if you are taking bath this exam can also be carried out there. With your fingers start feeling your either of the breasts. If you make different types of massage over your breast it will be more obliging in the way of breast tissues feel.
First start making up and downward movements on your breast, and then make a circular massage of whole breast. You can use some oily lotion on your fingers to massage well because when you are doing it for the very first time it may seem to you a bit uncomfortable and irritating. But when you use some lubricant your fingers can move more effectively over chest area giving more understanding about inside feel.
When you have completed with one breast switch to other and feel it in the same way. After this with great consciousness feel your armpits and then press your whole chest area first with medium and then with firm level of pressure in order to get familiar with inner tissues. This is indeed very easy way to understand the inside structure of your breasts but you need to consume a very small amount of time and improved attention.
Inside structure of your chest area is closely associated with the chances of a lump development that later on may cause cancer. It is suggested to all ladies belonging to any age that be careful while experiencing feeling of chest because they can take out any abnormality by themselves if they have completely focused on it.
Another very important part of self breast exam is to be very watchful toward when you are looking your breasts more likely in a mirror. First take a look covering whole chest area in which you have to be careful about what is the normal size of your breasts, their shape and texture. See if there is a texture of areolas (darken area around nipples) that is not normal and if you also find your nipples pulled inward or some other abnormal change in their position dont be worried just be quick in informing an expert.
On squeezing your nipples if you experience some fluid discharge from them except milk if you are going through the phase of breastfeeding you are preferably recommended not to ignore it but consult a physician. You have once taken initiative toward self breast exam it is no more difficult to save yourself against breast cancer.
