What are the precautions during menstruation?

There are many issues that women need to pay attention to when they have their period, especially diet and keeping warm. You can’t do strenuous exercise during menstruation. It’s best to eat warm food instead of cold food. You should drink more brown sugar ginger tea or jujube tea during menstruation, which can help relieve dysmenorrhea. What are the precautions during menstruation?

1. Precautions for diet during menstruation

1. Avoid eating raw or cold food and eat warm food instead. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood flows when it is hot and stagnates when it is cold. Eating raw and cold food during menstruation can not only hinder digestion, but also easily damage the body's yang energy, leading to internal cold. The coldness will stagnate and cause menstrual blood to flow poorly, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation. During menstruation, the diet should be warm. Choose foods such as kelp, jujube, sorghum rice, coix seed, mutton, apples, etc. Eat less cold and slippery foods such as pears, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, winter melon, kale, hemp seeds, etc.

2. Avoid eating spicy and sour foods. Women during menstruation feel particularly tired, their digestive function weakened, and their appetite poor. Therefore, they should pay attention to eating light and easy-to-digest foods, and avoid eating overly acidic and irritating foods, such as hawthorn, sauerkraut, vinegar, chili, mustard, pepper, etc.

3. To prevent iron deficiency, eat a combination of meat and vegetables. Iron is an essential trace element for the human body. Iron is not only involved in the synthesis of hemoglobin and many important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging and energy metabolism. Since more iron is lost during menstruation, it is very important to supplement with iron-rich foods. Fish, lean meat, animal liver, animal blood, etc. are rich in iron and have great biological activity, and are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body; while the plant iron found in soybeans and spinach has a lower absorption rate. Therefore, during menstruation, you should pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables in your diet, and eat more animal foods to meet the special needs for iron during menstruation.

2. Precautions for exercise during menstruation

During menstruation, strenuous exercise such as high jump, long jump, running, playing football, etc. can induce or aggravate general discomfort during menstruation, and even cause dysmenorrhea and menstrual disorders. Some strength exercises that increase abdominal pressure, such as weightlifting and dumbbells, should also be avoided as much as possible, otherwise they will cause excessive menstruation or prolonged menstruation.

In addition, since the cervix is ​​slightly open during menstruation, bacteria can easily invade the uterine cavity, increasing the chance of infection and causing various gynecological inflammations. Therefore, swimming is not suitable during menstruation. It is also not advisable to participate in competitions during menstruation, so as to avoid endocrine disorders and menstrual disorders due to excessive mental stress. For girls with severe dysmenorrhea and genital inflammation, it is best to suspend physical exercise during menstruation.

But moderate physical exercise is beneficial to girls' bodies. For example, some sports activities with small amount of activity, light intensity and gentle movements, such as gymnastics, table tennis, Tai Chi, jogging, and marching, can promote blood circulation and relieve abdominal distension and abdominal pain during menstruation. At the same time, it also helps to adjust the brain's excitement and inhibition processes, distract attention, maintain a happy spirit, and reduce discomfort such as menstrual tension and irritability.

3. Things to note when doing daily life during menstruation

During the menstrual period, you should try to avoid swimming, taking a bath, and having sexual intercourse. The sanitary napkins you use must be clean and soft, otherwise it may encourage bacteria to ascend into the uterine cavity and cause inflammation. Failure to treat it in time may lead to infertility in the future. As for the use of sanitary tampons (i.e. internal tampons), in addition to cleaning and changing them frequently, it is best not to use them at night. Because the water absorption capacity of sanitary tampon is limited, and it is impossible to replace it in time after falling asleep at night. At this time, the outflow of menstrual blood is blocked and it is likely to flow back into the pelvic cavity and cause endometriosis. In addition, strenuous physical exercise should be avoided during menstruation, as it is also one of the risk factors for endometriosis.