Does frowning affect menstruation?

Many people think that frowning is just a simple action to express emotions and will not have any effect on menstruation. However, they ignore that frowning may represent a bad mood, excessive stress, etc., which can have a great impact on women's menstruation. This is why doctors and experts repeatedly emphasize that women should maintain a happy mood during menstruation.

1. Will frowning affect menstruation?

Normal menstruation in women depends on the neuroendocrine regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis. A bad mood may cause menstrual disorders, which is a functional cause and a type of hypothalamic menstrual disorder. A bad mood is a state of mental stress. Long-term or sudden mental depression, mental tension, depression, mood swings, etc. will cause neuroendocrine disorders and lead to menstrual disorders. The main mechanism may be related to the disorder of gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion by the hypothalamus and the disorder of sex hormone secretion by the pituitary gland under stress state. Generally, menstruation will return to normal after the mood returns to normal.

2. Things not to do during menstruation

1. It is not suitable to beat the waist

When we have sore waist and swollen legs, we relieve the discomfort by beating the sore muscles. Similarly, many women also habitually beat their waists to relieve sore waist during menstruation.

But doing so would be a mistake. Gynecologists point out that the soreness and swelling in the waist during menstruation is caused by pelvic congestion. At this time, beating the waist will cause more congestion in the pelvis, which will in turn aggravate the soreness and swelling. In addition, beating the waist during menstruation is not conducive to the repair and healing of the wound after the endometrium is exfoliated, leading to increased bleeding and prolonged menstruation.

2. It is not suitable to wear tight clothes

Tight pants with a small hip circumference will put pressure on local micro-capillaries, thereby affecting blood circulation and causing congestion and edema in the genitals.

3. Not suitable for tooth extraction

I'm afraid that few dentists will ask you whether you are menstruating before extracting a tooth, but you must know that you cannot extract a tooth during your menstrual period! Otherwise, not only will the amount of bleeding increase during tooth extraction, but there will also be a bloody smell in the mouth for a long time after the tooth extraction, affecting appetite and causing malnutrition during menstruation. This is because during menstruation, the endometrium releases more tissue activating substances, which activate the plasminogen in the blood into plasmin with anticoagulant effects. At the same time, the number of platelets in the body also decreases, so the body's coagulation ability is reduced and the hemostasis time is prolonged.

4. It is not suitable to use shower gel to clean the genitals

The vagina is prone to odor during menstruation, especially in summer. However, it is not healthy to use shower gel to clean the vagina while taking a bath, or to repeatedly wash the vagina with hot water. Instead, it is easy to cause vaginal infection and lead to itching. Because the female vagina is normally a slightly acidic environment, which can inhibit bacterial growth, but during menstruation the vagina becomes alkaline, the resistance to bacteria is reduced, and it is easy to be infected. If you do not use professional vaginal cleaning fluid or repeatedly wash with hot water, the alkalinity will increase. Therefore, you need to choose professional vaginal cleaning liquid to clean your vagina, especially during menstruation.

5. Not suitable for drinking

Also affected by hormone secretion in the body, the alcohol-degrading enzymes in women during menstruation decrease, so they get drunk more easily after drinking. What's more serious is that in order to produce enzymes to help break down alcohol, the liver's burden is significantly increased. Therefore, drinking during this period will cause more serious damage to the liver than usual, increasing the possibility of causing liver dysfunction.