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Nipple discharge - teenage girl
My daughter is 14 and has not yet started her periods. Her breasts have been growing for the last couple of years but are still small. She has just told me she has been getting a clear nipple discharge, which dries and goes a bit crusty, she described it as like the sleep you get in your eyes in the morning. Is this normal? I don't remember ever having it as a teenager. Should I take her to the doctor?
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It sounds normal to me. Skin oil, dead skin cells. The nipples have a lot of little folds and exits, and that stuff collects there. It's OK for her to remove it. She can use a loofah in the shower and scrub it off, or break a (clean) Q-tip (the kind with white cardboard sticks) and use the broken end to clean it out of the folds, if she wants.
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