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Girls may have heavier menstrual bleeding during their menstrual period, which may be caused by eating blood-activating foods or there may be an infection. Therefore, girls should check their diet problems and then go to the hospital to check the condition of their uterus and vagina to avoid gynecological diseases. When menstruation comes frequently, girls should pay more attention to rest and eat more foods containing iron to replenish blood.

What is the reason for heavy menstrual flow?

1. Caused by neuroendocrine dysfunction

The main problem is that the function of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis is unstable or defective, that is, menstrual disease.

2. Caused by blood disease

Increased menstruation may not be a problem with the reproductive organs themselves, but a sign of a blood disease. Because menstruation, like other bleeding phenomena in the human body, is regulated by the body's own coagulation system. If there is an abnormality in the coagulation system, for example, in hemophilia patients who are born with a lack of a certain coagulation factor, the blood will not coagulate easily, resulting in heavy menstrual flow and prolonged bleeding. Excessive menstruation is sometimes the only symptom of female hemophilia patients! Other common blood diseases such as thrombocytopenic purpura, leukemia, aplastic anemia, etc., can also easily affect the coagulation system and increase menstrual volume.

If you are prone to various infections, often have fever (especially high fever), in addition to frequent menstruation, but also have skin bruises, nosebleeds, bleeding gums, etc. These abnormal bleeding are more likely to be problems with the coagulation system - that is, blood disease.

3. Tumors

The most common genital tumor in women of childbearing age is uterine fibroids.

The incidence of uterine fibroids is very high, reaching 20% ​​to 25%, but please don't be afraid, because 99.5% of them are benign. There are only two types of uterine fibroids, myenteric and submucosal, that cause menorrhagia. Endometrial polyps are actually a chronic inflammatory lesion. In recent years, the incidence of cervical cancer has been increasing, and there is a trend of gradually getting younger.

The first symptom of cervical cancer is bleeding after sexual intercourse, which is particularly prominent before and after menstruation and can sometimes even cause fatal heavy bleeding. If you experience progressively heavier menstruation, or other menstrual abnormalities such as shortened menstrual cycles, prolonged menstruation, irregular bleeding, or bleeding after sexual intercourse, you should consult a gynecologist promptly.

4. Caused by endometriosis

Simply put, endometriosis is the growth of tissue that is normally found in the lining of the uterine wall in other locations. These "ectopic" endometriums interfere with the normal functions of the reproductive organs and are often accompanied by various menstrual disorders - prolonged menstruation, excessive menstrual bleeding, premenstrual spotting, secondary dysmenorrhea, etc.

If your menstrual flow gradually increases and is accompanied by increasingly severe dysmenorrhea; if you feel severe discomfort or even pain when being intimate with your lover; if you find that you are in your prime but your efforts to get pregnant have repeatedly failed... Be careful, you may have endometriosis.

5. Caused by pregnancy

Abnormal vaginal bleeding in mature women is sometimes related to pregnancy complications. If your period is usually very regular, but is late for more than a week or ten days for no reason, and then flows continuously like a floodgate has been opened, with more blood clots or tissue than usual, and lasts longer than usual. Then, this is most likely a minor miscarriage.

Similar events occur more often after induced abortion (whether surgical or medical), especially after medical abortion, there is a 5% to 10% chance of failed or incomplete abortion. In addition, if vaginal bleeding increases and is accompanied by palpitations, dizziness, cold sweats, abdominal pain, or even fainting, it may be a sign of ectopic pregnancy.

6. Caused by improper contraception

Sometimes, abnormal vaginal bleeding is related to the type of birth control you're using. The most common "trouble" is the IUD.

In our country, this is the most commonly used contraceptive method for women after childbirth. The most prominent problems it brings are shortened menstrual cycle, prolonged menstrual period, significantly increased menstrual flow and heavy bleeding after menstruation. In particular, the new generation of active uterine rings with copper ions improve contraceptive effectiveness while also increasing menstrual bleeding.

In addition, short-acting oral contraceptives can usually make your periods regular, with lighter periods and less painful periods. However, incorrect use of the drug can also cause hormonal disorders, leading to abnormally increased menstruation. For example, failure to take the medicine according to the prescription information, missed doses or wrong doses may lead to disorders in the body's reproductive hormone levels, affecting the development of the endometrium and causing abnormal bleeding.

For women who use long-acting injections or subcutaneous implants for contraception, the most common experience is not a single heavy vaginal bleeding, but rather continuous, spotting bleeding. Sometimes the amount of bleeding can accumulate to a large amount over time. This situation is mostly because the external reproductive hormones are not balanced in your body.

7. Caused by genital organ infection

Inflammation of the reproductive organs is another common cause of abnormal vaginal bleeding.

We all know that the female reproductive organ is not completely enclosed. The semi-open channel between it and the outside world gives it the opportunity to be invaded by various pathogenic factors from the outside world. When you are in a situation where your own defense function is reduced due to anxiety, tension, fatigue, etc., various pathogenic factors may take advantage of the situation and invade, leading to the occurrence of the above-mentioned inflammations, making local blood vessels fragile, and bleeding during menstruation difficult to stop, often causing increased menstrual flow and prolonged menstruation.

If you have been in poor overall health recently, with heavy vaginal bleeding accompanied by lower abdominal or lower back pain, increased vaginal discharge, abnormal color or odor, fever, frequent and painful urination, you should consider a reproductive organ infection.

8. Obesity

Because the calories consumed are more than the calories consumed by the body, long-term obesity in women will result in endocrine and metabolic disorders, causing menstrual disorders, infrequent menstruation, amenorrhea, and functional uterine bleeding. In clinical medicine, it is often found that the histological changes in the ovaries of obese patients are very similar to polycystic ovary syndrome. When the weight is lost, menstruation resumes and ovarian changes disappear. Contemporary medicine has confirmed that obesity can cause menstrual irregularities.