Causes of abdominal pain during menstruation

Menstruation is a physiological phenomenon unique to women whose origin cannot be traced. The main reason for its formation from a biological point of view is that after the secondary sexual development of women, an egg cell is produced in the ovary every month. Its main function is conception, so to put it simply, women can become pregnant during their first menstruation. But no conception occurred during this month. The egg cell will flow out of the female body along with the shed ovarian wall. But many women experience abdominal pain during menstruation.

Severe lower abdominal pain during menstruation that disappears naturally after menstruation is called dysmenorrhea. Most dysmenorrhea occurs during menstruation, and for some people it occurs a few days before menstruation. The abdominal pain worsens after menstruation, but everything is normal after menstruation. The characteristics of abdominal pain are closely related to menstruation. Abdominal pain will not occur if menstruation does not come. Therefore, abdominal pain that is not related to menstruation is not dysmenorrhea. Dysmenorrhea can be divided into primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea. Primary dysmenorrhea refers to abdominal pain that occurs from the beginning of menstruation, while secondary dysmenorrhea refers to abdominal pain during menstruation that occurs several years or even more than ten years after menstruation. The causes of the two types of dysmenorrhea are different.

The causes of primary dysmenorrhea are a narrow uterine opening, uterine hypoplasia, or large pieces of endometrium in the menstrual blood. The latter condition is called membranous dysmenorrhea. Sometimes menstrual blood contains blood clots, which can also cause lower abdominal pain. The causes of secondary dysmenorrhea are mostly caused by diseases, such as endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pelvic congestion, etc. In recent years, it has been discovered that increased synthesis of prostaglandins in the endometrium can also cause dysmenorrhea. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the cause of dysmenorrhea through examination and then treat it accordingly.

So we can know that this kind of abdominal pain during menstruation can be called dysmenorrhea, and there are many methods to treat dysmenorrhea in the world. For example, soak your feet in hot water during menstruation. Drink more brown sugar water during menstruation. And during menstruation, you can eat more tortoise jelly and other dietary therapy methods to relieve dysmenorrhea.