Menstrual headache and nausea

Menstruation is a physiological phenomenon that all women are reluctant to face, because compared with men, this unique physiological phenomenon in the female body will cause great pain to the female body. Women's bodies will become weak during menstruation, and women with irregular menstruation will also experience lower abdominal distension and emotional instability. But why do symptoms such as headaches and nausea occur during menstruation?

What causes headaches and nausea during menstruation?

Menstrual headache is a common symptom and is also part of premenstrual syndrome. Why do you have headaches during menstruation? It may be caused by physiological reasons and is related to the estrogen concentration in the serum. Before and after menstruation, women's estrogen levels drop and changes in vascular tension can cause headaches. If you are in a bad mood, it will aggravate the headache. Some patients not only have headaches, but also have less blood volume, darker blood color, and often bruises.

Women's menstrual headaches may be caused by excessive blood loss or blood deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head is the yang center and also the location of the marrow sea. Excessive blood loss during menstruation, insufficient qi and blood, cannot nourish the marrow. Why do I have a headache during menstruation? It may also be due to malnutrition. Excessive dieting can lead to malnutrition. Eating less and lacking water and salt in the body can lead to weak hands and feet, reduced cerebrospinal fluid secretion, and a drop in intracranial pressure, which can cause menstrual headaches.

Lack of exercise can also cause period headaches. Girls like to stay at home and don’t like to exercise, which leads to low blood pressure and reduced intracranial pressure, and the end result is headaches. Headaches during menstruation may also be caused by mental stress. If you are under long-term tension and psychological pressure, you are more likely to have headaches during menstruation, so girls must learn to regulate their emotions.

In addition, lack of sleep, irregular sleep schedules, mental and physical fatigue, etc. can all lead to menstrual headaches. Lack of sleep not only affects your life and causes headaches, but in severe cases it can also cause heart disease. Menstrual headaches may also be affected by genetic factors. If the mother is prone to headaches during menstruation, the daughter is more likely to suffer from menstrual headaches.

What to do when you have headaches and nausea during menstruation?

1. Relax. Don’t be afraid of these days. Maybe if you don’t think about it deliberately, it won’t bother you. Maintaining a positive, confident attitude can help you cope with or even prevent some uncomfortable symptoms.

2. Eat less sweets. Sweets can make people emotionally unstable and anxious, so you might as well eat less sweets or not eat them at all, and drink more water and eat more fresh fruits.

3. Eat less animal fat. Animal fats increase the amount of estrogen, you can eat some foods containing vegetable fats to relieve your pain.

4. Eat more fiber. Fiber helps the body remove excess estrogen. Eat more vegetables, beans, whole wheat, buckwheat and barley (which are not only rich in fiber but also contain a lot of magnesium).

The above is what I want to recommend to you today. I hope it will be helpful to you. Friends who suffer from headaches and nausea during menstruation can come here for reference.