Breast tenderness may be caused by many different things, and each cause determines what treatments or supplements to take for sore breasts. Treatments may include vitamins and minerals, herbs, and even simple solutions such as an ice pack or a hot compress.

To relieve breast tenderness, first ask yourself if the cause is due to inflammation or infection.

It’s possible that your bra is causing inflammation or cutting off circulation to the breast, and that’s causing it. If so, you may find yourself trying to readjust your bra position during the day, and you can hardly wait to get home after work to take off your bra. In this case, there is a physical cause to your breast tenderness and removing the cause eliminates the problem.

The inflammation may also be due to an infection. For example, maybe you cut the skin in your armpit and bacteria living on the skin set up an infection.

The body tried to detoxify the infection but along the way, it set up residence in the breast. It’s also possible you may have been breast feeding and developed mastitis, an infection in the breast. This could cause breast tenderness and now you are wondering how to take away breast tenderness.

In this case, you need some vitamins to take for tender breasts.

Antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin A, D, E and C are quick to help reduce infections and actually get rid of them.

By doing this, the pain may be relieved. Dosages might be as follows: 10,000 IU vitamin A, 10,000 IU vitamin D, 400 IU vitamin E, and 1000 mg vitamin C taken once daily for 10 days. Even if you’re taking an antibiotic, you can still take these supplements as long as you take them at another time than with the antibiotics. It’s best to leave one hour in between antibiotics and vitamins.

What else can I take for PMS breast tenderness, you may be wondering.

Since we’re on the topic of vitamins, you could also take a period vitamin if you do not have an infection in the breast and the tenderness is only due to hormone fluctuations that result during your cycle. In this case, a period vitamin will put back into your body what you need to optimally support your reproductive system during your cycle. A period vitamin is something you can take all month long, however.

You could also take a progesterone topical cream prescribed by a physician; however, this is not a natural method of treatment. Hormonal doctors called endocrinologists will testify to the fact that they still can’t get the dosage of hormones exactly right, as evidenced in the case of those on thyroid hormone.

Often, they prescribe a dose of thyroid to a patient and don’t want to exceed a certain level of milligrams, even though the patient continues to gain weight. I’ve known many people who have gone on hormones for breast tenderness and they don’t really do much good. This is an indication that perhaps other things are causing the breast tenderness.

Breast tenderness may be caused by too many estrogen compounds in the body, not necessarily too little progesterone. There’s always a fine balance in hormones that is needed for health whether it’s for the reproductive hormones, thyroid hormones or any other hormones. You can decrease the body’s accumulation of estrogen compounds by increasing your dark green leafy vegetable consumption, and fruits and vegetables overall, in your diet. These foods contain medicinal substances that detoxify the estrogens, thus bringing down their number in the body.

Another method to use in conjunction with diet is to do a colon cleanse and liver cleanse for at least one month. Both these will increase the amount of estrogen compounds that are removed from the body.