GynoFiles

Sticky, Icky, and perhaps a bit yellow or brownish or tending to a bit greenish. When my patient's describe their physical complaints, we encourage being as accurate as possible. When we describe the consistency to others in the medical field, in fact, those same lay terms just creep right back into our lingo. But Dr. Nigel Bundred of Manchester in his recent writings on the subject of breast was reaching back into those 18th century metaphors when he described the discharge of Periductal Mastitis and Duct Ectasia as "toothpaste like". I did get the reference being both a avid student of the Two Fat Ladies and the daughter of a cook who could master the burn of virtually all things purported to be edible. As it was in one very popular 18th Century recipe for toothpaste were the ingredients of burnt bread. But lets not digress. If you have this sticky yellow discharge, what could it mean? It might mean fibrocystic condition, it might mean milk production, it might mean ...