How to treat menstrual headaches

Women always feel uncomfortable during the menstrual period, and headache is one of them. Excessive mental tension or lack of qi and blood can cause headaches during menstruation. At this time, women should learn to adjust their emotions, do things to divert their attention, and reduce the intake of meat or chocolate, coffee and other foods. Only in this way can the headache be effectively relieved. Women during menstruation should pay special attention. This period is a time for detoxification, and the body will be weaker than usual. It is important to keep a happy mood.

How to treat menstrual headaches?

1. Pay attention to controlling your emotions. Negative emotions such as depression or irritability can induce or aggravate menstrual headaches. It is suggested that you should pay attention to adjusting your lifestyle, slowing down your pace of life, and maintaining an optimistic and comfortable attitude.

2. Exercise appropriately. Exercising more can promote digestive function and stimulate the production of various brain chemicals, making people feel happy and comfortable.

3. Soak your feet in ginger water. Prepare a large and deep bucket, pour in warm water at about 42℃, the water level should be able to submerge more than half of your calf, put ginger powder into the water and stir evenly, place your feet flat on the bottom of the bucket, soak for about 30 minutes until your body sweats slightly, then dry your feet and go to bed. This can regulate tense nerves, promote blood circulation, improve sleep quality and prevent headaches.

Dietary taboos for women during menstruation:

1. Spicy foods: Condiments such as cinnamon, cloves, prickly ash, and pepper can be added to dishes to make them taste better. However, women during menstruation should not eat these spicy foods, otherwise, it will easily lead to symptoms such as dysmenorrhea and excessive menstrual bleeding.

2. Raw and cold foods: cold foods such as pears and bananas. Most of these foods can clear away heat, detoxify, nourish yin and reduce fire. It is beneficial to the human body when consumed at normal times, but during menstruation, you should try not to eat it or eat less, otherwise, it will easily lead to symptoms such as irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.

3. Salty food: Salty food will increase the body's salt and water storage. Before menstruation, the level of progesterone in girls' bodies will increase, making them prone to symptoms such as edema and headaches. If women can start eating a low-salt food 10 days before their period, they can avoid the above symptoms as much as possible.

What causes menstrual headaches?

1. Endocrine

70% of migraines occur around the time of menstruation in women, and nearly three-quarters of migraine sufferers are women. Therefore, there is reason to believe that hormone fluctuations are one of the important reasons for this phenomenon.

Menstrual headaches are related to changes in serum estradiol (a female hormone) concentration. Before and after menstruation, the concentration of estradiol in serum decreases, causing changes in vascular tension and causing headaches in some patients who are sensitive to this. After menstruation, the serum estradiol concentration returns to normal and the patient's headache may be relieved or disappear.

However, menstrual headaches, which are common in clinical practice, are closely related to endocrine disorders. In real life, women will inevitably encounter some unpleasant things or some difficult problems at work. In addition, the intense life and work pressure in modern cities put the brain nerves in a state of tension. Mental fatigue, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, and some women even go without eating for a long time to lose weight. These bad living habits may lead to endocrine disorders and then cause premenstrual syndrome.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, menstrual headaches can be called menstrual headaches. It is caused by long-term bad living habits or emotional instability, which will lead to long-term accumulation of toxins in the body. Toxins enter the blood vessels, causing vasodilation, thus causing headaches.

2. Mental stress

Women will inevitably encounter some unpleasant things or some difficult problems at work. In addition, the intense life and work pressure in modern cities make the brain nerves in a tense state. Sometimes they are depressed, extremely tired and lack exercise, sleep too long, have an irregular life, sometimes do not eat for a long time, and sometimes eat too fast, etc., which lead to menstrual migraines.

3. Perfume

Certain strong perfumes can irritate your nerves and may trigger menstrual migraines.

4. Radiation

Some people who work in front of computers are prone to menstrual migraines because of electromagnetic radiation. In addition, factors such as TV screens, spotlights, strong sunlight, etc. can cause eye fatigue and headaches.

People who have menstrual headaches should be careful about eating 4 kinds of food:

1. Chocolate

Not only does chocolate make you fat, the cystine it contains is also a major suspected cause of migraines.

2. Meat

Including beef, pork, fish and turkey.

3. Fruit

Includes citrus fruits, apples, and bananas.