Mastopathy is a benign growth of the breast tissue, which can occur in about 2/3 of women of different ages. And often in women there is a question, whether it is possible to become pregnant at a mastopathy.
Can I get pregnant with mastopathy?
In order to respond to it, you need to know how pregnancy affects mastopathy. During pregnancy, first the ovaries (the yellow body of pregnancy ), and from the second trimester of the placenta, progesterone is produced to maintain the normal development of the fetus in the uterine cavity. This hormone reduces the proliferation of tissues in diffuse mastopathy, and at the nodal reduces nodes in size. Sometimes mastopathy in pregnant women completely passes under the influence of progesterone. Therefore, when mastopathy can get pregnant, and this will positively affect the course of the disease.
How to distinguish mastopathy from pregnancy?
During pregnancy, in the first trimester, prolactin is also produced - a hormone that promotes the restructuring of the mammary glands for the future feeding of the baby. The mammary gland swells, becomes painful, denser, which can be mistaken for mastopathy. But gland restructuring usually takes place in the second trimester, gradually, nodal formations under the influence of prolactin are not formed - the nodes are characteristic for mastopathy and nodal mastopathy does not completely pass during pregnancy, only small nodal formations can resolve.
Mastopathy in pregnancy - treatment
If a woman before pregnancy is diagnosed with mastopathy, pregnancy is a good reason to get rid of this disease. Mastopathy during pregnancy and breastfeeding (more than 3 months) often disappears without a trace without any treatment under the influence of natural processes in the body of a woman. Pregnancy better affects the gland, if a woman has diffuse mastopathy and worse
Fibro-cystic mastopathy and pregnancy
In fibro-cystic mastopathy, along with the proliferation of fibrous tissue, cavities formed by fluid (cysts) may appear inside it. And they are beneficially affected by pregnancy, but if fibrous mastopathy is the predominance of dense fibrous growths that dissolve under the influence of progesterone, then cystic mastopathy is characterized by the presence of cavities with fluid, and pregnancy affects them less. True, with breastfeeding for more than 6 months, they significantly decrease and even disappear.