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Q: My little sister has a pain internally under her nipple.. Any ideas what it could be?

She claims she was jumping up in down in her room and ever since then it started hurting and through the night/morning, it has gotten worse. She's only 12, so she's still in the stage of her breasts growing.. She says the pain is under her nipple where the "hard part" is. We brushed it off at first but now the pain is about 6-7 on a scale of 1-10. Does anybody have an idea what this could be?

A: It's normal for people of both sexes to develop hard, painful lumps under their nipples in the early stages of puberty. It's caused by a surge of hormones. Eventually the lumps go away (weeks or months). They are painful but harmless. In girls, overall breast development usually begins after these lumps appear and disappear. In boys, the lumps just go away and that's it. Not everyone gets these lumps under their nipples, but it's perfectly harmless if they do. It's not cancer anything, so don't worry about it. The lumps can get really sore. Your sister should not press on them or rub them because that is likely to only make them hurt more. Just let them go away on their own, which they will.

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