What are the causes of breast pain in men?

People with common sense know that women often experience nipple pain. For women, this may be normal, but if it happens to men, it will inevitably cause some jokes. However, there are still men who experience nipple pain. This is mainly because men are too obese, which leads to rapid enlargement of their breasts. In fact, this is caused by a disease. If a man encounters this situation, he must go to the hospital for relevant examinations.

Causes of breast pain in men include:

1. Male breast pain during adolescence may be breast development syndrome during adolescence. Generally speaking, breast pain during a man's growth process, especially breast pain during adolescence, is a normal breast development syndrome. But it does not mean that breast development syndrome is a normal development. Breast development syndrome is the most common breast disease in men. It is mainly manifested by the enlargement of one or both breasts. Sometimes the breasts secrete milk like women in lactation. Breast development syndrome usually occurs in adolescent boys before the age of 21. Patients sometimes have signs of feminization, such as: a shrill voice, no beard on the lips, and wide hips like women.

2. Some men suffer from breast pain due to congenital testicular dysplasia. Boys whose liver function is damaged due to long-term hunger and malnutrition are also prone to breast development; patients with chronic nephritis, hyperthyroidism, and long-term use of drugs such as spironolactone and isoniazid are also easily troubled by breast development.

3. In addition, there are enlarged and tender lymph nodes in the axillary fossa on the same side. If male nipple pain is not treated in a timely and appropriate manner, the lesion will inevitably continue to develop. The redness and swelling of the breast on the affected side will become more severe, the lump will increase in size, become soft, and fluctuate, forming a subcutaneous or superficial breast abscess. Finally, the abscess will break outward or expand into the breast, or the lump that was originally deep will become larger and soft, and the skin that was originally not red or swollen will become red and swollen. The scope of the lesion will become larger and larger, and the damage to the breast tissue will increase.

4. Abscesses can not only penetrate the skin outward, but even penetrate the mammary ducts into the chest wall muscles to form retrobreast abscesses. At this time, systemic symptoms become more and more severe. At the beginning of the disease, the breasts are swollen and painful, the lumps are tender, the surface is red and swollen, and there is fever; if it continues to develop, the symptoms will worsen and the breasts will have pulsating pain. Severe cases are accompanied by high fever, chills, obvious breast pain, local skin redness and swelling, nodules, tenderness, and enlarged and tender lymph nodes under the affected side. The inflammation softens within a few days, forming breast swelling with a sense of fluctuation. The redness and fluctuation of the skin in deep abscesses are not obvious.

The above is the introduction to male nipple pain. I hope it will be helpful to men. There are many reasons for male nipple pain. It is normal to have this condition during puberty, but for men who have passed puberty, if this condition occurs, it is best to get a check-up to rule it out.