Looking for natural relief tips for sore and tender breasts? This article will focus on the big picture of what to do to alleviate the condition.
1. First consider your nutritional needs.
What many women learn the hard way is that the bottom line on breast tenderness is always going to be nutrition.
. Vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin E and vitamin C play a big role in decreasing inflammation in the breasts during and before your period. Supplements are often needed – 400 IU vitamin E daily, 5000 to 10,000 IU vitamin A daily and 1000 mg or more of vitamin C – to get relief for the condition.
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies never come singly, so if you’re low in a few of these, you’re also low in others. If you take a period vitamin, it can help a lot. Read about a period vitamin at some of our other pages “Vitamins for Sore Breasts“. It’s one of the best ways to relieve the pain of sore breasts once and for all.
2. Next consider your hormones.
If you have premenstrual breast soreness and tenderness, you may be estrogen dominant, which is a state where you are getting too much estrogen and not enough progesterone. This may happen if you’re taking birth control pills. If low in progesterone, eating yams during your period may be what can help your breast tenderness.
3. Next consider your diet.
Are you drinking too much coffee or eating too many chocolate bars? Caffeine is a known trigger for the production of fibrocystic breasts which are painful all month long during your cycle.
4. Finally consider your exposure to chemicals.
If you’ve never done a liver cleanse or a colon cleanse, you can bet that your body has accumulated chemicals – many of them estrogen-like in nature. Some of them are stored in breast tissue. You must detoxify your body of these estrogen mimickers because they can be the cause of cancer down the road. Decreasing chemicals in your body is imperative since we live in a time where greater than 30,000 chemicals are added to the environment annually. Home remedies such as colon and liver cleanses should be part of your normal routine of health.
5. And then consider other methods.
Massage of the breast may also help. This is the type of massage for lymphatic drainage, not similar to muscle massage or working out knots (trigger points) in the muscles.
Sore and tender breasts don’t have to be painful for long. Get started on home remedies as soon as you can. Take the matter into your hands and act now.
