How to treat primary dysmenorrhea? Here are 4 treatment methods

Primary dysmenorrhea is one of the more common symptoms among young women nowadays, accompanied by symptoms of lower abdominal sagging and bloating. In severe cases, it may also be accompanied by headache, back pain, general fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. The problem of dysmenorrhea can be serious or minor. Many female friends do not know how to treat the problem of dysmenorrhea correctly. Let me give you some treatment methods and care during menstruation for dysmenorrhea.

Primary dysmenorrhea treatment

1. General treatment

Help patients dispel their worries and build confidence. During dysmenorrhea, you can rest in bed or apply hot compress to your lower abdomen, pay attention to menstrual hygiene, and take general non-specific analgesics.

2. Oral contraceptives

It is suitable for patients with dysmenorrhea who need contraceptive measures. Contraceptives can inhibit ovulation, reduce the content of prostaglandins, vasopressin and oxytocin levels in menstrual blood, and inhibit uterine activity.

3. Prostaglandin synthase inhibitors

Generally, you should start taking the medicine 2 to 3 days after the menstrual cramps and pain occur.

4. Calcium channel blockers

Can significantly inhibit uterine contraction. Most people get good results when taking it before menstruation.

Primary dysmenorrhea care

1. Pay attention to menstrual hygiene and eat less raw, cold, spicy and other irritating foods before and during menstruation.

2. Eliminate the tension and fear about menstruation, relieve mental worries, and be in a good mood. You can participate in labor and exercise appropriately, but pay attention to rest.

3. Strengthen physical exercise at ordinary times, especially those with weak constitution. Attention should also be paid to improving nutritional status and actively treating chronic diseases.

4. When pain occurs, you can treat it symptomatically, take oral painkillers, or take atropine tablets and diazepam tablets, all of which can relieve pain. In addition, drinking some hot brown sugar ginger water will also have good effects.

5. If the pain is unbearable and you experience symptoms such as fainting or cold sweats, you should go to a professional hospital for treatment and seek help from a doctor to relieve the pain. Do not take it lightly.

Diet for primary dysmenorrhea

1. Supplement minerals

The minerals calcium, potassium and magnesium can also help relieve menstrual cramps. Experts have found that women who take calcium have less menstrual pain than those who do not. Magnesium is also important because it helps the body absorb calcium efficiently. You may want to increase your calcium and magnesium intake before and during your period.

2. Eat more warm foods

For example, functional brown sugar, which is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, has the effects of invigorating qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that women’s bodies are full of blood stasis after childbirth, and their eight meridians are empty, which often causes abdominal pain. For patients with hemiplegia, doctors often prescribe Shenghua Tang, Shixiao Powder or Jinlingzi Powder, and ask the patient to take it with brown sugar after the medicine is decocted. The purpose is to use the effect of brown sugar "clearing blood stasis" or "expelling lochia" to achieve the purpose of relieving pain.