Why do I have a lot of blood clots during my period?

Menstruation is a unique physiological phenomenon that accompanies women for most of their lives. Some women will experience heavy menstrual flow and many blood clots when their period comes. At this time, female friends need to pay more attention to this situation and actively look for the cause. So, why do there are so many blood clots during menstruation? Let me explain to you below. Please see the introduction below.

Menstruation, also known as the menstrual cycle, is a physiological cycle that occurs in some fertile female humans and other hominins. Every month or so, the endometrium undergoes a cyclical change of autonomous thickening, blood vessel proliferation, glandular growth and secretion, and endometrial collapse and shedding accompanied by bleeding.

The presence of blood clots in menstrual blood is mainly related to the amount of bleeding and the speed of bleeding. If the bleeding is heavy and there is no time for it to rush out, it will coagulate into a blood clot and be discharged. Often, blood clots may be caused by the amount of bleeding at this time, which forms a clot. When menstrual blood comes out, the endometrium will fall off, but it may be some fragments. The blood clots should still come from the blood vessels that supply the endometrium.

Menstruation with blood clots is regulated by the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis and undergoes cyclical changes. The shed endometrium mixes with the blood to form menstrual blood. If there is a large amount of endometrial shedding, that is, blood clots, it is a normal physiological phenomenon. However, if the endometrium is infected, there will be increased bleeding, abdominal pain, etc.

If you experience large blood clots, your clothes and bed sheets often get soiled, you need to use extra-large sanitary napkins, and you experience dizziness, it means you are bleeding too much. When there is no ovulation and the menstrual flow is too little or has not come for too long, the endometrium becomes very thick and unstable because it is not completely shed, and when it is shed, it will cause a large amount of menstrual flow. If a lot of blood is lost in an instant, the body will not be able to support it and the person may faint, which is very dangerous.

If you have excessive menstrual flow for a long time and the condition becomes more serious with age, you should consider whether you have uterine fibroids, uterine adenomas, or abnormal blood coagulation function. When uterine fibroids grow in the uterine cavity or close to the endometrium, they can cause excessive menstrual bleeding.

The above is the answer to the question of why there are too many blood clots during menstruation. After reading the above content, I believe that female friends have already understood the factors that cause too many blood clots in the early stages of menstruation. Here we need to remind everyone that once you find that your menstrual blood clots are caused by disease factors, you need to first treat the disease.