Importance of Breast Awareness in Your Life

Being a woman, you cannot deny value and importance of breast awareness. Knowing how your breasts feel and look is an important part of your breast care. It means if you are an aware woman you can easily notice any unusual change in your breasts. As you know your breasts change its shape and size overtime so it is not simple enough to distinguish between a normal change and an abnormal change. To become an aware woman, a time to time breast self exam is necessary. A self exam enables you to know how your breasts feel and look. It is better for all women especially women of age over 20 years to develop habit of performing regular breast check.

What Changes to Look for?
Remember awareness makes you understand what is normal for your breasts so you need to pay attention and look for unusual changes while performing self exam. To know what changes to look for during self examination following is a brief detail for your guidance.

• Observe the shape of your breasts. Your one breast might look larger or smaller than other breast.
• Look for any change in shape or positioning of nipple. There can be a change in nipple's position and shape. Nipple can also become inverted as well.
• Inflammation on or around nipple of your breasts.
• Discharging of nipples.
• Observe dimpling of breast skin.
• Notice if there is a swelling around your collarbone or armpit.
• A lumpy or thickened breast.
• Observe if you feel pain in any part of your breasts or armpit.

How to Notice these Changes?
Of course, breast self exam is an ideal way to know any unusual changes in your breasts. To know how to do a check following are step by step instructions for your easement.

1. First step is to lie down and put your right arm under your head. You can put a pillow under your right shoulder for your easement.
2. Now move your left index, middle and ring fingers on your breasts to feel for any unusual change like lumpiness or tissue formations. It is wise to make slow and circular movement of your fingers on your breasts.
3. Apply a soft and gentle pressure of your fingers on breasts and keep fingers in constant contact with them. Once you are done, you need to put a little pressure on your breasts. Do not cause any pain in your breasts. A light and gentle push will be enough for this task.
4. Repeat the 3rd step on your armpits and chest and look for any unusual change.
5. Now position the pillow under your left shoulder and perform all above steps for your left breast. Use fingers of your right hand to look for any unusual changes.

Breastlight: An Aid to Breast Self Exam
Breastlight is a breast check device that helps you to know more detailed view of your breasts. It helps to perform self exam in an effective way. It is a useful breast check device that emits a safe red light. Its application on your breasts gives a clear view of inner structure of your breasts. The safe red light of this breast check device shows a pattern of blood vessels and veins as dark lines. This is a normal condition of your breasts but if you notice any dark patches consult it with your doctor.

Claire Tomalin is an advisor and writer to enlighten breast awareness. If you want extensive information about the importance and the best way to enlighten breast awareness. You can contact her directly on her email address: Claire.Tomalin@breastlight.com or visit the official website http://www.breastlight.com/.

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