Can women drink coffee during menstruation?

Women's bodies are in an abnormal state during menstruation, so we must pay special attention at this time. Drinking coffee is something we need to avoid. Normally, too much caffeine will hinder the metabolism of sugars in women's bodies, further causing breast edema during menstruation. Therefore, women's physiological breast pain will worsen at this time. In addition, it will also cause insomnia, depression and other phenomena.

It seems that women have many taboos when their menstrual period comes, and not drinking coffee is one of them. Because before menstruation, the basic condition of the female body will change to a certain extent, drinking coffee will cause menstrual discomfort. What are the dangers of drinking coffee during menstruation?

Studies have shown that excessive caffeine will only hinder the metabolism of sugars, causing breast edema and swelling and pain. Moreover, if too much caffeine is consumed at this time, it will increase the consumption of B vitamins stored in the body. The cholesterol and inositol in B vitamins play a sedative role on the central nervous system. If they are deficient, they will cause insomnia, anxiety, irritability and other emotional instability symptoms. Excessive consumption of coffee will increase the estrogen in the body and aggravate some gynecological diseases, such as endometriosis, breast swelling and some gynecological tumors; and drinking coffee during menstruation will significantly increase the estrogen in the body, affecting the number of eggs in the ovaries, causing ovarian aging, and accelerating the aging of all functions of the human body and leading to menstrual disorders.

Regardless of whether you have had dysmenorrhea in the past, as long as you hold a cup of coffee during your menstrual period, the painful feeling will come and the amount of menstrual blood will increase. In addition, Chinese medicine gynecology experts remind that women who drink too much coffee for a long time are prone to myocardial infarction. After the menstruation is over, it is not bad to drink a cup of black coffee every day without sugar, which also has a certain weight loss effect.

Therefore, women should try to drink less coffee during menstruation. According to the above introduction, drinking coffee during menstruation will cause many adverse phenomena. If we must drink it, we can also eat some easily absorbed foods. We can also drink a moderate amount of black tea during menstruation. Even though black tea contains a small amount of caffeine, it itself is warm. No harm to the body.