Reviewer: Zhang Huiming (Beijing Friendship Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University)
The vast number of women who are always on the front line of losing weight, in addition to fighting with small belly, big thick legs and double chin, many people are troubled by the two lumps of meat under their armpits.
Are these two pieces of flesh squeezed out of the underwear the legendary auxiliary breasts? In fact, most people’s armpits are just extra fat, and the auxiliary breasts are not bulging meat bags.
Tencent Medical Code, let’s talk about the topic of auxiliary breast with you.
First, is it sub breast or fat?
Many girls will have two pieces of flesh under their armpits, and two lumps of flesh are squeezed out of their underwear, which are so ugly that they dare not wear sleeveless clothes.
Many people think that this is the legendary “auxiliary breast”. In fact, for most people, these two lumps of flesh are probably just fat accumulated from fat, and they are nothing at all. Side milk.
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Then what exactly is a secondary breast? This starts when the human body is still in the embryonic stage.
When you’re still in mom’s womb, just a tiny 9mm embryo, on your “front” (for an embryo, this side is called the “ventral side” ”) on both sides, from the armpit to the groin line (for an embryo, this line is called the “milk line”), a total of 6-8 pairs of nipples grow on this line, and they all have the ability to develop into normal breasts conditions of.
However, these small breasts don’t really all develop into normal breasts.
Normally, all but one pair of breasts regress before you are born.
During this process, if the small breasts are not completely degenerated due to congenital factors, and eventually remain after birth, auxiliary breasts will form.
The most common location for secondary breasts is under the armpits, of course, the entire “milk line” may be where the secondary breasts grow.
So, if the other small breasts are not degenerated, wouldn’t there be girls who will grow two rows of breasts like animals?
This is true in theory, but fortunately, human beings have undergone a long evolution, and the breasts other than the chest have degenerated from the genetic level, and the occurrence of auxiliary breasts is only a small probability of “accident” .
The reason why human beings have evolved in this way is mainly because the overall reproductive capacity of human beings is relatively low. Generally, there are 1~2 babies in a single birth, and there are not so many breasts, and so many breasts are produced. Milk, the demand for energy will become very large, which is not good for human beings, so it will gradually evolve to a state of only one pair of breasts.
Speaking of this, everyone probably understands what’s going on with the auxiliary breast – the real occurrence of “auxiliary breast” is only a small probability event, similar to the “long tail on the butt” and this “return” Ancestral Phenomenon”.
Then how to tell whether the flesh under the armpit is breast or fat?
If you touch this lump of flesh with your hands, you can clearly feel the protrusion in the middle, or the color is significantly darker (pigmentation), and it is close to the menstrual period or early pregnancy. It is obvious that these two pieces of flesh are increasing, and there is still a feeling of swelling and pain, but after the menstrual period, it shrinks and the swelling and pain disappears. It is basically certain that these two pieces of flesh are real auxiliary breasts.
If it is only soft to the touch, there is no periodic enlargement and contraction, and there is no swelling, it means that these two pieces of flesh are really just flesh, which can also be called “fake” Sexual Auxiliary Breast”.
In addition, a more direct method is to go to the hospital for a color Doppler ultrasound examination. If the color Doppler ultrasound shows that there are gland-like structures in the “flesh”, it is an unregenerate auxiliary breast.
Second, what should I do if I find a secondary breast?
What should I do if I find out that I have breasts growing on my body?
First, assess whether these accessory breasts are fully developed or incomplete.
An incompletely developed accessory breast may have only glandular tissue without an intact nipple or areola; or only pigmentation without a nipple and mammary gland.
A fully developed auxiliary breast is very powerful. It has all the structures that a normal breast should have, including nipples, areolas, mammary glands, and can secrete milk.
Then, you can evaluate the impact of the auxiliary breast on yourself.
For some sub-breasts that are not fully developed, small in size, have no symptoms, and do not affect their appearance very much, you can leave them alone for now.
As for the fully developed auxiliary breast, because it likes to be a demon too much, as long as the hormone level in a woman’s body changes, it will change accordingly. On the one hand, it will bring repeated breast pain to women. , on the other hand will affect the aesthetics.
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After the evaluation, you should go to the breast surgery or plastic surgery in time. After more accurate B-ultrasound and mammography, the doctor may recommend some characteristic accessory breasts for Surgical removal, such as:
Accessory breasts with lumps in the glands can be palpated;
Bleeding from the nipple is common, especially if the nipple is bright red or dregs-like;
Auxiliary breasts that cause discomfort such as severe swelling and pain, and seriously affect women’s quality of life;
Auxiliary breasts with large size or special location, which seriously affect the appearance;
Auxiliary breasts in women with a family history of breast cancer;
Accessory breasts that affect upper extremity movement.
Third, in addition to surgery, is there any way to eliminate the auxiliary breast?
Simply put, there is no reliable way to get rid of side breasts other than surgery.
After all, the accessory breast is a complex structure of fat + glands, and it is the same tissue as the normal breast. It cannot be eliminated by applying medicine. If a drug can be applied across the skin to eliminate the auxiliary breast, it is estimated that the breast surgeon will be euthanized, and there will be no need to operate on breast diseases in the future, just apply the medicine.
(There are a lot of underwear and medicines on the market that claim to eliminate side milk, source: Internet )
There are many specially designed underwears on the market to eliminate auxiliary breasts, but there is also no way to eliminate auxiliary breasts.
If there really is underwear that can remove fat and glands, maybe everyone will use it on the face to thin the face, wrap it around the waist to thin the waist…
These underwears basically cover and add in the auxiliary breasts through some design structures such as full cups and side wings that are much wider than ordinary underwear, but for the auxiliary breasts, forced restraint may bring Hidden dangers such as infection and structural damage are not worth the loss.
However, it is important to wear the right underwear when it comes to pseudo breasts.
If your underwear is the wrong size, or you are often wearing half-covered, strapless, etc., or underwear that is too small and too tight, it may make underarm fat more visible.
(alternate swimming, source: internet)
In addition, some exercises for the shoulder and chest position, such as alternating swimming, bench press, etc., can help you reduce the accumulation of armpit fat, but exercise must be done according to your ability to reduce false Sexual breastfeeding is not something that happens overnight.
References
[1] Laor, T., Collins, M.H., Emery, K.H., Donnelly, L.F., Bove, K.E., Ballard, E.T. (2004). MRI appearance of accessory breast tissue: a diagnostic consideration for an axillary mass in a peripubertal or pubertal girl. AJR Am J Roentgenol183(6): 1779-1781.
[2] Conde, D.M., Kashimoto, E., Torresan, R. Z., & Alvarenga, M. (2006). Pseudomamma on the foot: An unusual presentation of supernumerary breast tissue. Dermatology Online Journal, 12(4).
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