Women’s menstrual discomfort is caused by these diseases!

Many women feel that they may experience discomfort in other parts of their body during their menstrual period. In fact, these diseases come with the menstrual period. What are these diseases? Women, take note.

When your period comes, it’s not just your stomach that hurts! Clinically, it has been found that some diseases are inextricably linked to women's menstrual cycle.

Joint pain

Some women feel dull pain in their finger joints and knee joints around the time of their menstrual period. This is because women's hormone levels change significantly before menstruation, and the uncoordinated secretion of estrogen and aldosterone causes water and salt retention. This causes the fat pad inside the knee to swell, which in turn compresses nerve endings and causes pain. Women with this condition can take some symptomatic medications, such as ibuprofen, indomethacin, etc.

Skin allergies.

Due to hormonal changes, the blood supply and sebum secretion of the skin increase during menstruation, which can easily make the skin oily and the pores enlarged. If the skin is not cleaned properly or the cosmetics used are too irritating at this time, the risk of skin allergies will increase. It is recommended to use less irritating cosmetics during menstruation, avoid heavy makeup and foundation, and use low-irritation skin care products and light exfoliating cleansing products appropriately.

Toothache

Toothache during menstruation is primarily caused by the large changes in estrogen levels before and after menstruation. Estrogen can stimulate special receptors in the gingival tissue, causing dilation, congestion and swelling of the blood vessels in the dental pulp and periodontal membrane, thereby compressing the pain nerve endings and inducing toothache. Secondly, during menstruation, the pelvic cavity may also become congested or congested, which may reflexively cause periodontal blood circulation disorders through nerve and fluid regulation. It is recommended not to eat raw, cold, overheated, hard, rough and spicy food during this period. When toothache is obvious, taking vitamin B complex orally can relieve the pain. In addition, tooth extraction should not be performed during menstruation.

Angina

The phenomenon, called "menstrual angina", was discovered by researchers at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Studies have found that women are more likely to experience heart pain during their menstrual period or in the first week after their period; the period least likely to experience heart pain is in the middle of the menstrual cycle. Women with symptoms of menstrual angina are advised to prepare heart disease medications during the menstrual period, pay attention to reducing strenuous activities, avoid fatigue, and ensure adequate sleep.

Endometriosis

Some adolescent girls often experience lower abdominal pain, which is aggravated during menstruation and has heavier menstrual bleeding. This is because the ectopic endometrium is not discharged from the body smoothly with the periodic menstruation, but retrogrades into the abdominal cavity through the fallopian tube, accumulates in the pelvic and abdominal cavities, and causes lower abdominal pain. If an unmarried woman finds that her menstrual flow is too heavy and is often accompanied by lower abdominal pain, it is best to go to the hospital for a gynecological examination.

Cystic Breast Hyperplasia

Because the corpus luteum secretes less progesterone and more estrogen during menstruation, benign hyperplasia of the breast stroma or lobules occurs, resulting in unilateral or bilateral breast pain before or during menstruation, and sometimes lumps of varying sizes can be felt. This lump increases in size during menstruation, the pain disappears after menstruation, and the lump shrinks, and no special treatment is required. However, breast lumps that occur outside of menstruation should be taken seriously and go to the hospital for treatment in time.