What to do if you have stomach pain during your period

Many girls will experience menstrual pain during their period, and the specific manifestation of menstrual pain is abdominal pain. The cause of abdominal pain is generally due to uterine cold, so some women will experience more severe menstrual pain. So what should you do if you have stomach pain after your period?

What should I do if I have stomach pain after my period?

If female friends experience abdominal pain during menstruation, this is a symptom of dysmenorrhea. You can use ginger tea to relieve it, or use a hand warmer to warm the lower abdomen. If the above methods cannot improve the abdominal pain symptoms, you can also use Yueyueshu capsules or ibuprofen sustained-release capsules. If a woman's dysmenorrhea symptoms are severe and gradually worsen, she should also have an ultrasound to see if it is caused by endometriosis.

When women have their period, the abdominal pain they experience is called menstrual abdominal pain, commonly known as dysmenorrhea. Most of them are caused by dampness stagnation and qi deficiency and blood stasis. It can be treated through traditional Chinese medicine, mainly with Shaofu Zhuyu Decoction and Wenjing Decoction, or Yueyueshu. You can also perform moxibustion on the lower abdomen, and use acupuncture to acupuncture the Qugu, Zhonghe Guanyuan points, and water channel return for treatment. At the same time, acupuncture treatment is carried out in conjunction with the kidney point and Baliao point in the lumbar sacral region.

Things you can’t eat during your menstrual period

1. Tea: Women lose a lot of iron after their menstrual period, so they should supplement more calcium. And tea contains more than 30% tannic acid, which can easily combine with ferrous ions in the intestines and stomach, causing precipitation, hindering the intestinal mucosa's absorption of ferrous ions; it can cause breast pain, while also consuming the body's stored vitamin B and destroying the metabolism of carbohydrates.

2. Drinks containing caffeine: cause breast pain, anxiety, irritability and mood swings, and also consume the body's stored vitamin B and destroy the metabolism of carbohydrates.