Will inflammation affect menstruation?

Women are under a lot of pressure nowadays. Many women often work overtime and stay up late for work. Long-term bad living habits can easily cause endocrine disorders in women. If women have endocrine disorders, it will affect their menstrual abnormalities and also cause them to suffer from gynecological inflammation. Gynecological inflammation also affects women's menstruation. Therefore, female friends must seek treatment as soon as possible after suffering from gynecological inflammation.

Can inflammation cause menstrual irregularities?

Yes. 1. Irregular work and rest schedule. Due to the influence of life or work, people often stay up late or have reversed work and rest schedules. This bad habit can easily lead to endocrine disorders and cause irregular menstruation.

2. Excessive weight loss. Uncontrolled weight loss or excessive exercise will result in the body not consuming enough protein and fat, thus affecting the normal synthesis of estrogen in the body, resulting in too little menstrual flow or amenorrhea.

3. Emotional factors. If you are in depression, anxiety or great mental stress for a long time, the function of the hypothalamus will be damaged, the ovaries will be unable to secrete hormones and ovulate, which can easily lead to irregular menstruation.

4. Abortion surgery. Multiple abortions can lead to a thin endometrium, uterine damage that is difficult to repair, and even cause menstrual irregularities, amenorrhea, and infertility.

5. Uterine fibroids. Women with uterine fibroids usually experience irregular menstruation, mainly manifested by heavy menstrual flow and excessively long menstrual periods. The severity of the symptoms depends on the severity of the uterine fibroids.

6. Thyroid problems. If the thyroid gland is overactive or underactive, it can also affect ovarian function and cause menstruation to become irregular.

7. Influence of IUD. The IUD is a foreign body outside the body that can irritate the female endometrium, leading to irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, etc.

What to eat to regulate irregular menstruation

1. Motherwort juice porridge

Prepare 10 grams of fresh motherwort juice, 40 grams each of fresh Rehmannia juice and fresh lotus root juice, appropriate amounts of ginger juice and honey, and 100 grams of rice. Cook rice into porridge. When the rice is cooked, add the above-mentioned medicinal juices and honey and cook it into a thin porridge.

Main effects: nourishing yin and blood, regulating menstruation and removing blood stasis, quenching thirst and relieving restlessness. It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum blood loss, lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, etc. It is better to use a sand pot instead of an iron pot. It is not recommended for patients with spleen deficiency and diarrhea. Do not add onions or leeks when consuming this medicinal food.

2. Qinggan Tiaojing Decoction

Prepare 12 grams of Uncaria rhynchophylla, 10 grams of fried Cortex Moutan, 9 grams of fried Gardenia, 12 grams each of red and white Peony Root, 10 grams of charred Crataegus pinnatifida, 10 grams of Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, 6 grams of fried Pollen Typhae (wrapped and decocted), 12 grams of fried Dipsacus asper, 10 grams of Poria, 5 grams of fried Bupleurum, and 15 grams of Leonurus japonicus.

Main effects: It can clear the liver and relieve depression, remove blood stasis and regulate menstruation. It can treat early menstruation, excessive menstrual flow, premenstrual breast pain, and excessive blood clots during menstruation. This prescription must be taken during menstruation to be more effective.

3. Cold-mixed Malantou

Prepare 200 grams of fresh Amaranthus, 2 pieces of braised dried tofu, and appropriate amounts of MSG, sugar, salt, and sesame oil. Wash and clean the Amaranth, blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute, take it out and let it cool, then cut it into small pieces. Then chop the braised dried tofu into small pieces and mix it with the minced amaranth. Add sugar, salt, MSG, drizzle with sesame oil, mix well and it’s done. Serve as a side dish and eat as you like.

Main effects: This prescription can clear away heat and cool blood. It is suitable for irregular menstruation, which is of blood heat type, with early menstruation, heavy menstruation, red and sticky menstruation, irritability, thirst, yellow tongue coating, and rapid pulse.

4. Mutton Soup with Fermented Black Beans

Prepare 500 grams of fermented black beans, 100 grams of mutton, 15 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt. Put the first three ingredients in a casserole and cook until they are well-cooked, then add salt to taste. Start taking the medicine 1 week before each menstruation and continue for 1 week.

Main effects: This prescription warms the meridians and dispels cold, nourishes blood and regulates menstruation. It is suitable for irregular menstruation, which is of cold blood type, late menstruation, scanty and dark menstruation, cold pain and heaviness in the lower abdomen, white tongue coating, etc.