How many days is it normal for my period to be late?

Since every woman's physical health and constitution are different, the symptoms that appear during menstruation will also be very different. Many women will experience late menstruation. If the menstruation is late within a week, then this is a relatively normal phenomenon. Women do not need to be nervous or anxious. Just check it out if it is more than a week late.

How many days is it normal to delay menstruation?

It is normal for menstruation to be delayed by about a week. The menstrual cycle begins on the first day of menstrual bleeding. The interval between the first days of two menstrual periods is a menstrual cycle, which is generally 28 to 30 days. A delay of about 7 days is considered a normal menstrual cycle, and an advance of 7 days is also normal. Normal menstruation lasts 3 to 7 days.

2. Normal menstrual cycle

A woman's normal menstrual cycle consists of four parts: the follicular phase, ovulation phase, luteal phase, and menstruation phase. Although taking hormones can delay menstruation, it may also disrupt the body's endocrine patterns, cause endocrine disorders, affect ovulation, and cause irregular menstruation. Delayed menstruation usually has a heavy flow, is continuous, and lasts a long time, which is also harmful to the body.

3. Changes in the menstrual cycle

Frequent use of drugs to change the cycle can lead to menstrual disorders.

For unmarried women, especially some female students, delaying menstruation by taking birth control pills may cause reduced menstrual flow or even amenorrhea, which is very harmful. Therefore, if there are special circumstances and you need to use medication to delay menstruation, you should do so under the guidance of a hospital gynecologist. You must not buy medicine at a pharmacy and take it at will. If side effects occur after taking the medicine, please go to the hospital immediately.

In addition, eating supplements such as longan and donkey-hide gelatin before menstruation may slightly delay the menstrual period, causing abdominal bloating and pain, and reduced menstrual flow. Therefore, it is best for women not to eat these foods before menstruation.

The role of menstruation

Pregnancy signs

For married women of childbearing age who have regular menstruation in the past, if this menstruation is more than ten days late, the first thing they should consider is whether they are pregnant. After confirming pregnancy, those who are not planning to have a baby should take remedial measures as soon as possible; those who want to have a baby should pay more attention to nutrition, avoid exposure to tobacco, alcohol, pesticides, harmful chemicals, radiation, etc., and avoid taking drugs that can cause fetal malformations. The expected date of delivery can also be calculated based on menstruation, which is very beneficial for pregnancy health care and psychology.

Disease signs

If a girl is over 18 years old and still has no menstruation, it is called primary amenorrhea; if a woman has had normal menstruation in the past but now has stopped menstruating for more than three months, it is called secondary amenorrhea (excluding those caused by pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause), and she should be checked for lower reproductive tract atresia, congenital absence of uterus or uterine hypoplasia, ovarian tumors, pituitary tumors or dysfunction, endocrine or wasting diseases. In addition, changes in menstrual timing, volume, and accompanying symptoms are also important clues for discovering and diagnosing many diseases.

Hematopoiesis

Menstruation causes the body to lose blood and produce blood regularly, which gives women's circulatory and hematopoietic systems a kind of "exercise" that men do not have. It makes women more able to withstand accidental blood loss than men, and can produce new blood more quickly to make up for the lost blood. Practice has shown that if men and women with the same weight and health status lose the same proportion of blood due to an accident, the man will die, while the woman has the possibility of being successfully rescued and eventually recover.

Reduce iron damage

There is a hereditary disease called hemochromatosis, which can easily cause iron metabolism disorders in patients and cause excessive iron accumulation in the body. Excessive iron can slowly lead to lesions in the skin, heart, liver, joints, pancreatic islets, etc. One way to treat iron overload is to drain your blood regularly. The chance of organic damage caused by hemochromatosis in women is much lower than that in men, or even almost never occurs. The effect of menstruation - periodic blood loss just consumes excess iron.