Anyone who has reached the age of 18 and has not yet had a menstrual cycle is called primary amenorrhea; it is mostly caused by congenital anomalies, including abnormal development of the ovaries or Mullerian tissue. The absence of menstruation for more than 6 consecutive months after the menstrual cycle has been established is called secondary amenorrhea, which is mostly caused by secondary diseases. True amenorrhea refers to the absence of menstruation due to certain reasons, such as mental factors, malnutrition, anemia, tuberculosis, excessive scraping, endocrine dysfunction, etc. Pseudomenorrhea (or occult) amenorrhea refers to the inability to discharge menstruation due to congenital dysplasia or acquired injury causing adhesion and atresia of the lower reproductive tract.
In Chinese medicine, amenorrhea is called menorrhagia, mostly caused by congenital deficiency, weakness and disease, or multiple childbirth and room labor, kidney deficiency, blood deficiency; serious illness, prolonged illness, blood loss after childbirth, or spleen deficiency, biochemical deficiency, blood less flushing; emotional disorders, excessive mental stress, or stimulation, qi and blood stagnation does not work; obese people, phlegm, phlegm and dampness, phlegm and dampness blocking the flushing.
A. What are the causes of amenorrhea?
1, mental stimulation
Mental factors lead to menstrual disorders is a common factor, mainly emotional changes, such as: excessive tension, excessive pressure of life and work are caused by abnormal secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, resulting in menstrual disorders, and even amenorrhea.
2.Ovarian factors
If the ovarian sex hormone level is low, it will lead to endometrial changes, also known as ovarian amenorrhea, common conditions are premature ovarian failure, polyovarian syndrome. In some women, premature ovarian failure usually occurs after the age of 40, but in some women, genetic factors, autoimmunity, emotional stimulation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can also lead to depletion or destruction of follicles in the ovaries, resulting in secondary amenorrhea.
Polycystic ovary syndrome, which is a common endocrine disease in women of childbearing age, is a long-term absence of ovulation and usually results in sporadic menstruation and even amenorrhea and hirsutism.
Second, what are the causes of amenorrhea in young women?
1, bad slimming brings amenorrhea
Because the endocrine system is not very stable for young girls, in regulating the menstrual cycle is regulated by the thalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis nerves, is very susceptible to external factors, so if blind weight loss is very easy to lead to loss of balance, endocrine level flocculation, thus appearing menstrual disorders, or even amenorrhea The situation is not normal amenorrhea and leads to abnormal ovulation, which can lead to loss of reproductive function if not treated in time.
2, abortion factors lead to amenorrhea
The first time a woman is pregnant, she must pay close attention to not to easily go for an abortion, if you find yourself pregnant, and do not stay, you must go to the hospital as soon as possible to do a medical abortion, so as not to have to do a scraping operation, injury to the uterus.
3, psychological factors caused by amenorrhea
Psychological factors cause amenorrhea, is very easy to be ignored by many women, research has found that women’s menstruation is very closely related to the nervous system and endocrine system, in a state of intense tension is caused by the nervous system of women’s brains a high degree of tension, will affect the function of the nervous system Oh, thus leading to women will appear amenorrhea.
4, disease factors cause amenorrhea
If women suffer from diseases, such as malnutrition, anemia, obesity, etc., will affect the secretion system of women, such as: the adrenal glands, thyroid gland pancreas and other abnormalities, these conditions will lead to women do not come to menstruation, if this situation caused by amenorrhea, must be timely to the hospital to check first to treat the disease, and then regulate the body, menstruation will naturally come to the tide Oh.
What are the effects of amenorrhea?
1, if a young married woman if long-term amenorrhea, it may lead to infertility and infertility.
2, amenorrhea overflow syndrome for a long time can lead to uterine atrophy, transformed into blood withered, bringing serious harm to the body of women.
3, mental factors amenorrhea, may lead to some women cheer melancholia.
4, premature ovarian failure because of the amenorrhea is more harmful. It can cause genital atrophy, early aging, sexual life disorders, and may suffer from hypertension, cardiovascular disease, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer and other diseases.