Dysmenorrhea is pain that occurs during menstruation, often spasmodic and concentrated in the lower abdomen, and can be accompanied by other symptoms, including headache, nausea, vomiting, lower abdominal cramps, and lower back and leg pain. After menstrual cramps appear, first of all, you need to pay attention to rest, you can drink warm water, brown sugar water, hot compresses on the small stomach, diet should be light and mild, cold, spicy, stimulating food to avoid eating. If the dysmenorrhea is very strong, you need to take painkilling drugs for symptomatic treatment. The first is to take a clinical prostaglandin synthetase inhibition, can play a certain pain relief effect, commonly used drugs are ibuprofen, ketoprofen, naproxen, etc.. The main inhibition of prostaglandin synthetase activity, reduce the production of prostaglandin, to prevent excessive uterine contractions or spasms, so as to reduce or eliminate pain, the efficiency of more than 80%, the effect is relatively good. Second, you can take oral contraceptives, mainly by inhibiting ovulation and reducing the prostaglandin content in menstrual blood, for women with dysmenorrhea who require contraception, the efficacy can reach more than 90%. Therefore, you can choose drugs to treat the symptoms according to your specific needs.