What happens if you use essential oils during your period?

Essential oils are a product that everyone uses. In addition to achieving the purpose of beautifying and nourishing the skin, the use of essential oils can also improve your internal health. Of course, essential oils cannot be used during menstruation, as this will cause increased menstrual bleeding or abnormal menstruation. Here I will introduce to you some care methods during menstruation!

1. Avoid cold food and eat warm food

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood flows when it is hot and stagnates when it is cold. Eating raw and cold food during menstruation can not only hinder digestion, but also easily damage the body's yang energy, leading to internal cold. The coldness will stagnate and cause menstrual blood to flow poorly, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation. During menstruation, the diet should be warm. Choose foods such as kelp, jujube, sorghum rice, coix seed, mutton, apples, etc. Eat less cold and slippery foods such as pears, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, winter melon, kale, hemp seeds, etc.

2. Avoid eating spicy and sour foods

Women during menstruation feel particularly tired, their digestive function weakens, and their appetite is poor. Therefore, they should pay attention to eating light and easy-to-digest foods, and avoid eating overly acidic and irritating foods, such as hawthorn vegetables, sauerkraut, vinegar, chili, mustard, pepper, etc.

3. To prevent iron deficiency, eat a combination of meat and vegetables

Iron is an essential trace element for the human body. Iron is not only involved in the synthesis of hemoglobin and many important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging and energy metabolism. Since more iron is lost during menstruation, it is very important to supplement with iron-rich foods. Fish, lean meat, animal liver, animal blood, etc. are rich in iron and have great biological activity, and are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body; while the plant iron found in soybeans and spinach has a lower absorption rate. Therefore, during menstruation, you should pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables in your diet, and eat more animal foods to meet the special needs for iron during menstruation.

4. Daily life care

During the menstrual period, you should try to avoid swimming, taking a bath, and having sexual intercourse. The sanitary napkins you use must be clean and soft, otherwise it may encourage bacteria to ascend into the uterine cavity and cause inflammation. Failure to treat it in time may lead to infertility in the future. As for the use of sanitary tampons (i.e. internal tampons), in addition to cleaning and changing them frequently, it is best not to use them at night. Because the water absorption capacity of sanitary tampon is limited, and it is impossible to replace it in time after falling asleep at night. At this time, the outflow of menstrual blood is blocked and it is likely to flow back into the pelvic cavity and cause endometriosis. In addition, strenuous physical exercise should be avoided during menstruation, as it is also one of the risk factors for endometriosis.