What kind of treatments are available for the milky nipple discharge and irregular menses?
Keep in mind that women can have milky breast discharge or anovulation or irregular bleeding and not have prolactin elevations in their blood. When it is elevated, thorough diagnosis is important. The first treatment needs to be directed at any cause of the hypothalamic brain suppression. Increased stress, thyroid disease, or any anatomical brain tumors should be treated. Any medications that are suspect should be switched, if possible, to ones that are not known to delay mense or elevate prolactin hormone. Sometimes the source of the milky discharge is a local breast irritation, frequent nipple stimulation during lovemaking or even the frequent squeezing of the nipples that a woman does just to keep checking to see if the milky discharge is still present. It is essential to stop stimulating or squeezing the nipple to check for discharge. Each time the nipple is stimulated, it sends a signal back to the brain to release more prolactin hormone and to produce breast milk. Thus any contin
