Understanding the breast pain ICD 10 chart has become an issue for some women. During puberty, due to an increase in estrogen production, breasts are developed in women. As they age, the breast tissues experience different degrees of changes, especially during their menstrual cycle.
While some of the changes e.g., breast pain or increase in size, sometimes they are signs of an illness. in our last post, we detailed all the necessary information you need on how to treat yeast infections.
Breast pain is also known as Mastalgia, the pain is said to be common, and can be categorized into cyclical and noncyclical pain.
Cyclical pain indicates pain associated with the menstrual cycle, in the sense that the pain can only occur a few days into the cycle, during or immediately after the menstrual cycle. Interestingly, the pain disappears after the monthly visit.
While noncyclical pain can be caused by various reasons ranging from surrounding muscles and tissues, or injury in the breast. Noncyclical breast pain can be complicated to detect, however, it is not common.
CAUSES OF BREAST PAIN
Breast pain can be caused by different things. While some are man-made, others occur naturally.
Medication: Treating some diseases can lead to breast pain. Treatment with antibiotics, hormone therapy, or antidepressants, can contribute to the chances of developing breast pain. Women are advised to seek medical help immediately if they notice such a change.
Smoking: The act of smoking has been identified by studies to increase epinephrine in women. Epinephrine has a close association with pain in the breast among women.
Mastitis: Nursing mothers are known to be prone to mastitis. Mastitis is an infection of the milk ducts. The symptoms may include itching or burning of the nipples.
Engorgement: A nursing mother who fails to breastfeed her newborn properly due to one condition or the other, may likely notice pain due to breast milk being overfull.
Breast size: Women with oversized breasts are known to experience breast pain more than women with moderate recast size. This happens when the breast size is not in proportion to the chest’s frame.
BREAST PAIN ICD 10
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), is an epidemiology diagnostic tool used for clinical and health management purposes. The ICD is initiated and regulated by World Health Organization (WHO), for the purpose of harmonizing health practices. The ICD has a code for each ailment and its symptoms. For breast pain, breast pain ICD 10 is the code.
Among the codes, N60-N65 represents disorders of the breast, while N64 represents other disorders of the breast. Breast pain has lots of synonyms e.g., left mastodynia, right mastodynia, bilateral mastodynia, mastodynia of left breast, mastodynia of bilateral breasts, etc.