What is gynecomastia

What is gynecomastia? What are the causes of gynecomastia? How is the treatment of gynecomastia? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.

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Gynecomastia and causes of gynecomastia

Gynecomastia is the development and growth of breasts in men. Milk iron can be increased in men in some physiological conditions normally.

This is a period of newborn. Boys are born with enlarged
Milk glares. This condition is saved 2-4 weeks, then
Milk glands decrease.

The time of puberty in the adolescence can also
accompanied by an increase in the mammary glands. This increase is normal
preserved no more than two years.

In the old age, due to the age increment in the content of estrogen in the organism of the Milk glands increase.

Gynecomastia in men may occur when
Non-icing diseases: in recovery after exhaustion
Period, with a violation of the work of the kidneys, with cirrhosis of the liver. Most often
Gynecomastia occurs with violations of synthesis or action in the body
Men's sex hormones - Androgen (Testosterone, Methyltestosterone).
This happens after inflammatory diseases of the testicles, with tumors
Eggs, in patients with Crerefelter syndrome. Increased secretion B
The organism of female sex hormones - estrogen also leads to
increasing the size of the breast in men. Estrogens in the greater
The numbers appear in the body of a man in the tumors of germ cells
Eggs, feminizing tumors of adrenal glands, lung tumors or
other organs accompanied by increased hormone production -
Chorionic gonadotropin. Here also applies false
hermaphroditism.

Gynecomastia occurs when using some drugs:

The development of the mammary glands define female sex
Hormones - estrogens and hormone pituitary - prolactin. In the body of a man
Normally, there is some estrogen (about 0.001% of
quantity of androgens). With different pathological conditions
Percentage of estrogen increases or disrupted
male sex hormones (the sensitivity of tissues is reduced to
Testosterone). Under the influence of estrogen, growth and development occurs
Milk glands in men in the female type with the formation of ferrous
Pole. If adenoma arises (benign
Tumor from the glandular fabric) pituitary, which produces a hormone
prolactin, in the mammary glands occurs and the development of the connective
Fabrics and an increase in fat deposition in lactic glands.

Normal milk iron in men is underdeveloped
Authority consisting of a nipple, short ducts and fatty fiber. With gynecomastia
Milk iron increases in size and compacted. She may be
Painful when tackling. Increased can be both alone and both
mammary gland. In case of cancer, the increase in dairy
glands of men can be caused by the disease itself or if
Tumors of various organs occurs products of estrogen and
Chorionic gonadotropin.

In renal failure, the dairy glands increase under
The impact of an increased level of estrogen in the blood and lower level
Testosterone.

In cirrhosis of the liver, which is most often alcoholic,
Gynecomastia arises due to alcoholic lesions of the testicles. Wherein
Development of testosterone.

The increase in the mammary glands due to the reduction of testosterone during hypogonadism (insufficiency of the function of the sexual glands) and with hormonally active tumors of the adrenal and testicular bark.

Medicinal preparations lead to gynecomastia
Different reasons. For example, the drug Spironolacton (Verosampiron) blocks
receptors of men's sex hormones than reduces their action in
The body, cimetidine stimulates prolactin products.
Antitumor drugs have a toxic effect on men's
Fire glands - Eggs.

How is the treatment of gynecomastia

Treatment of gynecomastia depends largely on the main
Diseases that led to an increase in the mammary glands. Sometimes, if
In adolescence there was a significant increase in dairy
glands, there is a need for plastic surgery.

In cancerium diseases, treatment of gynecomastics operational. With a decrease in the function of the men's sex glands, replacement hormone therapy is carried out.

Medicine gynecomastia usually passes independently when canceling the drug.