Single women who have no sex life, but find that their breasts are overflowing with milk-like secretions, how can this happen? Do you have some breast disease?

1. Without sex, how can there be milk overflow?

Under normal circumstances, women's breasts will only have milk overflow after childbirth, while single women generally do not have milk overflow due to the presence of prolactin-inhibiting factors in the hypothalamus. If single women who are not sexually active have symptoms of milk leakage, it may be suffering from hyperprolactinemia, and the incidence of hyperprolactinemia in women of childbearing age is as high as 5% to 17%.

Hyperprolactinemia is mainly due to excessive secretion of prolactin, causing milk overflow. Female patients are often accompanied by symptoms such as hair loss, headache, menstrual disorders, weight gain, and amenorrhea.

There are many reasons for the excessive secretion of prolactin, mainly including hypothalamic disorder, pituitary disorder, primary hypothyroidism, and neurological effects. In addition to, unmarried women may experience breast milk for the following reasons:

1. Physiological Factors

Since the mammary gland is the target organ, some women may experience milk overflow due to the influence of endocrine. It usually occurs in young women with strong and active endocrine hormones. There may be a small amount of milk overflow from the nipple. This is a normal physiological phenomenon. Worry.

Second, Breast disease

Milk overflow may also be caused by diseases of the breast, such as breast hyperplasia, acute inflammation of the breast, intraductal papilloma, and breast cancer. This can be a preliminary judgment from the color of the milk overflow. If it is a benign breast disease, the color of nipple discharge is usually brown or yellow; while malignant breast diseases such as breast cancer usually produce red or dark red discharge, especially when measuring breast discharge alone, special attention should be paid. Bloody unilateral breast discharge should be more alert to breast cancer.

Third, Other factors

There are also some other systemic diseases that may lead to nipple discharge, such as pituitary adenomas; there are also some drugs, long-term use of hormone levels imbalance, resulting in milk overflow.

Second, the main reason for the high level of prolactin?

Prolactin, also known as prolactin, is a polypeptide hormone secreted by the pituitary gland. High prolactin levels may be related to several reasons:

Thyroid problems

The secretion level of prolactin is affected by a variety of hormones in the human body, such as estrogen, thyroxine, etc. Among them, hypothyroidism will indirectly affect the secretion of prolactin, which may lead to excessive prolactin levels.

Hypothalamus or Pituitary gland lesions

The secretion of prolactin is affected by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, and if there are lesions, it may lead to abnormal secretion of prolactin, such as pituitary microadenomas, which may cause elevated prolactin levels.

Drug effects

Drugs such as morphine, diazepam, and reserpine inhibit the release of prolactin-inhibiting factors, or cause an increase in prolactin levels. Drugs such as estrogens, oral contraceptives, and thyroid-stimulating hormones can also affect prolactin secretion levels.

Every female friend should pay attention to their breast health, especially young women. Don’t think that you will not have breast problems if you have not given birth to a child. If you find that undesired fluid overflows from your breast, you must be vigilant and go to the hospital in time. Do B-ultrasound or targeted examination to find the cause, ask a professional doctor to make a clear judgment and follow the doctor's advice.