Is prolactin over 600 considered high?

Prolactin is a hormone secreted by the pituitary gonadotropin. This hormone mainly promotes breast development and milk secretion. Generally, the secretion will increase during the menstrual period and lactation period, but it cannot exceed 600. Exceeding 600 is seriously high. This situation will cause women to experience irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and decreased libido. It will also cause symptoms of galactorrhea, and women need to seek timely treatment.

Is prolactin over 600 considered high?

During the non-pregnancy period, the prolactin value generally does not exceed 20 nanograms per milliliter or 490 miu/L. If a woman's prolactin is over 600, it means that it is seriously high. This situation has a great impact on the body, causing women to experience a series of symptoms such as irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, luteal insufficiency, decreased libido, and may also lead to galactorrhea and bone reduction. If it is not treated in time, it will seriously affect women's reproductive function, so we should pay enough attention to this. After discovering that they have this phenomenon, patients should communicate with their doctors in a timely manner to discuss treatment and conditioning plans to try to avoid more serious illnesses.

For the case of high prolactin levels, patients can generally be treated with chemical drugs, such as bromocriptine, cabergoline, pergolide, etc. These drugs can act on the dopamine receptors in the cell membrane, thereby inhibiting the release of prolactin and reducing the level of prolactin in the serum, thereby improving the patient's symptoms and restoring women's menstruation and reproductive function. In addition, we can also use Chinese medicine for auxiliary treatment to relieve liver depression, regulate the liver and kidneys, and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. This can alleviate the patient's pain and speed up the treatment. During the treatment process, patients should maintain a good attitude and actively cooperate with doctors to take relevant medications on time to achieve the best therapeutic effect.

In short, a prolactin level of over 600 is considered high and can cause serious harm to a woman's body. So when we find ourselves experiencing this phenomenon, we should use drugs that inhibit the synthesis and release of prolactin for treatment. At the same time, we must also pay attention to care in life so that the patient's body can return to normal as soon as possible.

Symptoms of high prolactin

Prolactin is a polypeptide hormone, one of the hormones secreted by the pituitary gland, also known as prolactin. Generally, women will secrete abundant prolactin in the late stages of pregnancy and lactation, which can promote the development of the breast and lactation.

If prolactin is too high, the following symptoms may occur:

1. Irregular menstruation. Primary amenorrhea, secondary amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, functional uterine bleeding, luteal insufficiency, etc. Irregular menstruation will affect women's conception, causing infertility, habitual miscarriage and other effects. It may also cause women to have decreased libido, excessive hair growth, and acne.

2. Milk leakage. Milk can be seen by squeezing both breasts, and fat droplets can be seen under the microscope. Galactorrhea can be divided into non-tumor type, tumor type, and simple galactorrhea. Most breasts are normal or accompanied by lobular hyperplasia or macromastia.

3. Osteopenia. Long-term decrease in estrogen levels due to HP can cause a decrease in bone density.

4. When prolactin is too high, women may experience visual impairment, neurological problems, hypopituitarism, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea and other diseases.