Self breast check is a very simple procedure to know your breasts and can be performed in complete privacy of your bedroom. No one else but a woman herself can understand and describe well the changes appearing in her body. Doctors are emphasizing on this view that women should start their breast examination soon after getting twenty because as the will be well familiar with their breasts it will be easy for them to find out any abnormal change.
Self examinations carried out once in a month are very important because they will be helpful for them in knowing the feel, look, contour, skin, and size of their breasts. And when they know the normal look and feel of their breasts perfectly they can tell if there is anything unusual for them.
Self breast check can be performed by starting with the look of breasts. Stand in front of mirror and undress your chest area. Raising your arms over your head, look at the contour of your breasts. Carefully examine the shape and size and make sure that you have not noticed any abnormality in contour or size. Women often experience variations in the size in which they find one breast relatively larger than the other. It is natural that women have some difference in size of both breasts.
A very clear difference that appeared suddenly making one breast abnormally larger is irregular. If you experience it then don't ignore it. When you have become familiar with the size and are sure that there is not any abnormal change in size, press your nipples one by one. If you find any fluid coming out of any of the nipples you should immediately report to some expert.
Carefully examine the skin of your whole chest area. Any change like puckering or dimpling on breast skin is an indication of abnormality. Breast pain is normally not a sign of breast cancer. When you are menstruating, it's natural to feel breast pain during period days. But afterwards this pain is no more to feel and hence ends.
When it is time to get a perfect breast touch better is to lie down. When you are lying down, start feeling your left breast with the aid of middle three fingers of right hand. Carefully make up and downward movements on your breast and then massage your breast in clockwise movement.
When you have done with your left side, move toward the right breast. Make up and down and later clockwise massage as you did with your left breast. During this entire breast feel if you find any abnormality like presence of a lump in any breast you have to report it to your physician. And finally you have to feel your armpits for presence of any abnormality.
Always remember that you have to be mentally alert when you are performing self breast check. You have to completely focus on the breast look and feel. If you find any abnormality whether it is related to the look or feel of breast you have to report it very soon. When breast cancer is detected earlier you will be in a position to defeat it with success.
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