Menstrual cramps, a common symptom of women’s periods, can seriously affect normal life and work when they are in pain. Even some people can’t stand the pain and have to go to the hospital for a few days every month during those days of their periods. Today, we will tell you what you should pay attention to during menstrual cramps and how you should relieve them. For this problem, it is not possible to generalize, but should be divided into situations. We all know that dysmenorrhea is divided into primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea, which are not the same. Then, for these two cases, I will give different solutions. First of all, let me explain to you what is meant by primary dysmenorrhea and what is meant by secondary dysmenorrhea. Primary dysmenorrhea can also be called functional dysmenorrhea, which means that there is no organic lesion in the reproductive organs, and it usually hurts from the first menstrual period, accounting for more than 90% of dysmenorrhea. In layman’s terms, primary dysmenorrhea means menstrual pain that is not caused by a medical condition. If this is the case, women should have good habits in their lives. Do not eat spicy and stimulating things during the period, you can use hot water bags and other hot compresses on the lower abdomen. You can drink some brown sugar ginger tea, and you can also bubble your feet with hot water at night. In addition, do not be too greedy for cold and eat too many cold things during the period. Because cold water has the effect of stopping bleeding, getting cold may cause the menstruation to stop without clearing, or the flow is not smooth, resulting in stomach pain. The more you think about it, the more your mind will be focused on your menstrual pain and you won’t have the heart to do anything else. So you can do something happy to ease your attention, for example, listen to some soothing music. Next, we will talk about secondary dysmenorrhea. Secondary dysmenorrhea is a condition in which menstrual pain does not occur at the beginning of menstruation, but only later. Secondary dysmenorrhea is usually caused by organic lesions, that is, the body is sick, resulting in dysmenorrhea. If this is the case, the common causes are endometriosis, uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and so on. In all these cases, it is important to seek medical attention and active treatment as early as possible. For example, endometriosis and adenomyosis are conditions in which menstrual pain is progressively worse, meaning that the longer you delay, the more pronounced the symptoms of menstrual pain will become. Some people may also experience non-menstrual pain, anal cramping and pulling pain. So if you have such a condition, you should pay attention to it and treat it symptomatically. Some of my patients have pain for more than 20 days a month, both during and after menstruation, for 30 days a month. For these cases, you can take some painkillers, such as Fenbid, when you have menstrual pain, and if you feel that the painkillers you take “don’t work”. You can try anal plugs, such as indomethacin suppositories, and then remind everyone to eat, we must pay attention to the dosage, long-term eating too much painkillers can also cause liver and kidney damage. So if it is secondary to dysmenorrhea, go to the hospital to actively check, identify the cause, symptomatic treatment, after all, painkillers only play the role of relief. Only by finding the root of the disease and taking the corresponding treatment from the root of the disease can we solve the problem at the root.