My chest is a little itchy, what's going on?

We all know that breasts are an important part of a woman's body and can be used to nurture the next generation. Some women often feel a little itchy in their breasts. They can scratch them when they feel itchy at home, but when they are outside, if they feel itchy in their breasts, it will be very embarrassing and they cannot move. So what is the reason why women's breasts feel a little itchy? Let me introduce it to you below.

Breast itching is mainly because the breasts are home to many glands, which secrete a large amount of oily substances. Over time, the lipids become acidic and dirt accumulates, which will irritate the local skin of the breasts and cause itching. Breast itching should be taken seriously as it may be a precursor to a serious illness.

Some patients may not have any clear lumps in their breasts, but only itching and rashes in the nipples and areolas, which look like eczema. In fact, this may also be a special type of cancer, Paget's disease, which is nipple eczema-like breast cancer. So, don't ignore small changes.

Of course, the eczema-like changes in the nipple and areola are not necessarily cancer; some of them are simply eczema. So, what kind of situations should cause special vigilance? Generally speaking, if eczematous changes occur in the nipple and areola on one side and do not heal for a long time, there is a high possibility of eczematous cancer. The main symptoms are initial itching or mild burning pain of the nipple, followed by redness of the skin of the nipple and areola, mild erosion, and yellow-brown or gray scaly crusts often attached to the surface. The skin in the affected area is rough, thickened and hard, with a clear boundary with the surrounding area. Later, the nipple on the affected side may become sunken or eroded, or a hard lump may be felt in the breast.

In the early stages of eczematous breast cancer, when the lesions are limited to the nipple and areola and no lump has been felt in the breast, simple resection of the affected breast can produce good results. If a lump has already formed in the breast, the prognosis is poor and radical mastectomy is necessary. Therefore, timely diagnosis and treatment when the lesions are still in the early stages of eczematous changes on the nipple and areola is the key to achieving a better prognosis. In clinical practice, a biopsy should be considered for skin lesions of the nipple and areola that have not responded to treatment for more than 2 weeks to confirm the diagnosis.