Saturday 18 February 2012

Gynecomastia: An upcoming problem

Till now, we have been hearing that women usually faces problem in their breasts or can grow or get bigger breasts with the help of breast implants but recently some cases have come up to the medical professionals highlighting that men are facing some breast related issues and here the cases are not to increase the breasts rather they look forward to get smaller sizes from the treatments.

Yes, the term Gynecomastia basically highlights the same upcoming problem that is being faced by many men worldwide today. It is a problem related to male breasts or puffy breasts in men.

Medical professionals have allotted the term Gynecomastia to this breast related problem in men. They have derived this term from the Greek word "gyne" meaning women related and "mastos" denoting breast. Collectively the word means breasts resembling the ones seen in women.

People in India and other parts of world also use terms like male breast enlargement or puffy boobs for the word Gynecomastia. Medical professionals have generally noticed this problem in adolescent age group. Though according to doctors the problem is transient and it disappears only in few months after it is noticed, some cases could face some different effects because in approx 20% cases, the enlarged breasts have been noticed to be the cause of poor self esteem and shy behavior in patients. To clear the picture of this growing problem, here mentioned is the list of the causes of Gynecomastia in men such as pubertal, steroids, obesity, drug abuse like marijuana use, breast tumor, genetic pass, liver diseases, use of miscellaneous medications at the same time can cause breast enlargement in males, castration, kleinfelter Syndrome, gilbert's Syndrome and certain age factors as well.

Along with the causes, here below has also been mentioned the cures of this illness in male. If in case the breast enlargements are because of being over-weight then the best way to alter the shape and the size of the breast in males is diet and exercise. But if breast enlargements in men are due to some other reasons then the best cure for same is to get a surgery done on the breasts like liposuction or excision.

In another case, if breast enlargements have occurred because of drug abuse or consequent to other reasons then one thing is positive that the men do not have to go through all the psychological terrors that in other cases he could. The best cure to the breast enlargements in these cases is getting gynecomastia surgery.

But along with above, there is one more truth to learn that getting a surgery do not finishes all the problems. Gynecomastia along with being a physical error also severely hurts a patient psychologically as well as emotionally. Thus post undergoing a surgery, it also necessitates to keep the patient under psychological counseling and that too until the time all his psychological scars disappear because if in case, he did not get appropriate guidance, feelings of shame, humiliation, embarrassment and self hate can suppress him from starting a new and a fresh life ahead.


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