Causes of galactorrhea.
Galactorrhea is a milky discharge from the udder and is unrelated to the normal process of milk formation in the mammary gland during breastfeeding.
Galactorrhea is a symptom that a certain pathological process is forming in the body, therefore, timely diagnosis and treatment is necessary. Milk discharge may also bother men; Doctors remember a number of clinical cases when the patient was a newborn, that is, not only women get sick with this diagnosis.
Causes
Galactorrhea often results from having too much prolactin — the hormone responsible for milk production when you have a baby.
Possible causes of galactorrhea include:
- Medications
- Herbal supplements, such as fennel, anise or fenugreek seed
- Birth control pills
- A noncancerous pituitary tumor (prolactinoma) or other disorder of the pituitary gland
- Underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism)
- Chronic kidney disease
- Excessive breast stimulation, which may be associated with sexual activity, frequent breast self-exams with nipple manipulation or prolonged clothing friction
- Burns or other chest injuries
- Stress
- Spinal cord surgery
- Injury of spinal cord...
Source:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/galactorrhea/symptoms-causes/syc-
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