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Medical Director: Zeng Cheng, Chief Physician, Department of Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China
Reporter: Zeng Wenqiong, Southern Metropolis Daily Intern, Lin Shu, Correspondent, Zhang Qiuxia, Yang Minghao
Irritability, menstrual pain, bleeding sometimes more and sometimes less, periods sometimes late and sometimes early …… menstruation is every woman’s “bosom friend”, but the “bosom friend” visit the days, but also women are quite annoying days The woman should suffer in silence. It is a woman should silently endure these “women’s disease”? The experts pointed out that menstrual disorders can be alleviated through regulation, if ignored there may be serious consequences.
Four criteria for regular menstruation
“To determine whether the menstruation is regular, you need to observe from the ‘period, quantity, color, quality’ four aspects.” Dr. Zeng Cheng, deputy director of the first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told reporters that the normal menstrual cycle “period” is 28-30 days, a period “period” is 3-7 days; the total bleeding of a menstrual cycle “The total amount of bleeding in a menstrual cycle should be 30-80 ml; the color should be bright red; the quality should be free of blood clots and odor. If the amount of menstrual bleeding and menstrual cycle are abnormal, even accompanied by symptoms such as vague pain in the lower abdomen, breast swelling, back pain, headache, mood swings, etc., then it is a menstrual disorder.
Irregular menstruation Q & A
Symptom 1 Abnormal amount of menstrual bleeding
Q: How should I measure the amount of menstruation?
A: “A sanitary napkin can help.” Director Zeng Cheng said that a sanitary napkin can hold 15 ml when it is completely wet, so it is normal to wet 2-6 sanitary napkins in a cycle. If you have to change four or five times a day, each piece of sanitary napkin are wet through, blood flow like an injection, belongs to the excessive bleeding; on the contrary, each menstruation two days clean, drip that collection, or even just use the pad can be, is too little bleeding.
Conditioning recipe: first of all, we must exclude organic and functional diseases, such as bleeding more may be uterine fibroids, cervicitis, cervicitis and other gynecological diseases, bleeding less may be related to infection, abortion surgery, ovarian function also has an impact on the amount of bleeding. After ruling out organic diseases, dietary supplements can be used to regulate them. When bleeding, menstrual period can eat party ginseng, Astragalus, motherwort to benefit Qi, lift, stop bleeding, bleeding fatigue, weakness, after the period can eat Wuji Bai Feng Pills, Agaricus tonic body; bleeding less, during the period can be used Angelica, Salvia, chicken blood vine boiling soup to help produce blood, after the period, eat more beneficial to nourish the blood, such as red dates, Agaricus, Shu Di, He Shou Wu, etc..
Symptom two abnormal menstrual cycle or period
Q: What is considered an abnormal menstrual cycle or period? What are the symptoms?
A: Menstrual cycle refers to the interval between the first day of menstruation and the first day of the next menstruation. Early or delayed periods of more than 7 days and long periods are considered abnormal. Those with early periods are mostly young people, showing more heat, more blood, blood clots, dizziness, and some with menstrual pain; those with delayed periods are mostly obese, hairy, acne-prone, with high mood swings and nervousness. “When you are overly obese, ovarian function decreases, leading to sparse ovulation or even no ovulation, which can affect fertility.” Director Zeng Cheng said. As for those with long periods, they may be affected by ovarian dysfunction, but sometimes it is not menstruation, but bleeding caused by cervical lesions or abnormal bleeding from fibroids or polyps.
The recipe: early periods are mostly real heat, usually eat less fried, barbecued food, can eat maidenhair, white foxglove, motherwort conditioning; delayed periods need to maintain emotional peace, reasonable control of diet, proper exercise, weight control, but does not advocate relying on diet pills to lose weight. “People with normal cycles do not advocate the use of drugs to delay their periods on their own. In addition to identifying the physique, the medication should also follow the rhythm of the menstrual cycle, such as pre-menstrual period to ease the blood, menstrual period to activate the blood, post-menstrual period to nourish the blood and tonify the kidneys, and ovulation period to regulate yin and yang together.” In addition, Director Zeng Cheng suggested that women of childbearing age had better do an annual physical examination, in the non-menstrual period can do gynecological ultrasound, menstrual abnormalities which can be done between 2-5 days of menstruation endocrine hormone examination.
Symptom three blood clots, odor
Q: Are blood clots and odor a normal physiological phenomenon or a disease?
A: When lying down, due to the lack of gravity, menstrual blood collects in the vagina and forms clots through the clotting mechanism, which are discharged in the morning when you first wake up. “But clots are only present when the menstrual flow is high or when there is stasis of blood in the body. Many clots and even with stinging and swelling pain are pathological.” In addition, Director Zeng Cheng pointed out that normal menstruation is odorless, odor indicates inflammation, you need to find a doctor to do the relevant examination.
Conditioning recipe: the presence of blood clots can be treated with herbs that invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and during non-menstrual periods, you can consume Salvia miltiorrhiza, Radix et Rhizoma Tinctoriae, Motherwort, etc. The odor comes from inflammation, Chinese medicine believes that most of the “damp heat”, so you should pay attention to a light diet, pay attention to hygiene, change the sanitary napkin regularly, never have intercourse when there is bleeding, inflammation should not be tub baths, baths, otherwise easy to infect.
Symptom 4 Dysmenorrhea
Q: Is dysmenorrhea common to everyone?
A: “Excluding endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease and other organic diseases, usually people with ‘blood stasis’ and ‘tension’ are more prone to dysmenorrhea.” According to Director Zeng Cheng, pain will occur when there is blood stasis in the body and blood drainage is not smooth. In addition, dysmenorrhea is also caused by mental psychology, the more afraid and nervous, the more sensitive to pain.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the website. The cold is not conducive to the elimination of menstrual blood, blood stasis pain, so we should do a good job of warmth, can be used to warm the abdomen, should not get wet, should not eat cold food; in addition, should not be strenuous exercise, otherwise easy to make the menstrual blood discharge is not smooth, reflux into the pelvis, causing pain.
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