Why does delayed menstruation cause lower back pain and breast pain?

Not all women have their periods on time. If a woman's menstruation is not on time, early or delayed, it is abnormal. It depends on the time. If the menstruation is early or delayed within a week, it is generally not a big deal. If it is more than a week, you should go for a check-up in time. Some women do not have their periods on time, and they may also have symptoms such as back pain and breast pain. What causes back pain and breast pain when the menstruation is delayed? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What causes delayed menstruation, lower back pain, and breast pain?

Irregular menstruation is a sign of endocrine disorder. If there is breast tenderness before menstruation, it is a sign of breast hyperplasia. If you have had sexual intercourse before, it cannot be ruled out that it is a sign of pregnancy. You need to go to the hospital's gynecology department for treatment in time, choose appropriate examination and conditioning methods according to the doctor's instructions, avoid tension and anxiety during the period, and get enough sleep.

2. What should you pay attention to during menstruation?

1. Women should not only eat ice during menstruation, but also some foods with cool properties, such as ice cream, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, orange, pear, grapefruit, watermelon, etc., and sour foods, such as sour plums, unripe sour fruits, or some spicy foods, such as fried foods, chili, pepper, mustard, etc., should also be avoided during menstruation to avoid blood circulation problems.

2. During menstruation, you should eat more green onions, fungus, peanuts, walnuts, dates, longans and roses. If you accidentally eat cold food during your menstrual period, or can't help eating ice, you can drink more brown sugar boiled ginger to balance the blood circulation in your body and promote blood flow.

3. In addition to not consuming ice cream during menstruation, women should pay special attention to keeping warm during menstruation, avoid cold, wading, rain, exposure to the sun and cold showers, and should refrain from sexual intercourse, tub baths and swimming, and keep the vulva, underwear and sanitary napkins clean.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine is against women eating ice during menstruation, while Western medicine believes that there are no taboos. Menstrual blood is the shedding of the endometrium, and is discharged through the contraction of the uterus. When eating ice, the temperature of the stomach and intestines drops, which affects the contraction of the uterus and makes it more difficult to discharge menstrual blood, thus forming blood clots. In order to discharge the blood clots, the uterus has to increase the force of its contraction. This is why eating ice may cause menstrual pain.

3. Reminder

Western medicine does not exclude any food. Even ice can be eaten during confinement. Although eating ice may cause uterine contraction and cause menstrual pain, these blood clots can be discharged through the body's internal mechanism, so women do not need to worry too much. However, if you experience excessive menstrual pain due to eating ice, you should go to the obstetrics and gynecology department to check if there are other possible diseases.