What should I do if my period is delayed by four days?

Some female patients have health problems, so they need to pay attention to timely treatment to ensure their health and avoid danger to their bodies due to menstrual problems. In particular, they should pay attention to the impact of menstruation on the patient's body. So what should I do if my menstruation is delayed for four days? Let me introduce my views on this issue to you.

1. Chronic diseases: Some chronic wasting diseases often lead to delayed menstruation due to nutritional deficiencies. Common ones include chronic hepatitis, tuberculosis, tumors, hypothyroidism, severe iron deficiency anemia, aplastic anemia, etc., which often lead to delayed menstruation. The above diseases often have obvious symptoms, abnormalities can usually be detected, and they are not easily misdiagnosed. Once the above diseases occur, the primary disease should be treated as soon as possible, and menstruation will resume naturally after the primary disease is cured.

2. Taking certain medications: Some medications have side effects and often lead to delayed menstruation. For example, long-term use of birth control pills, emergency contraceptive pills, the gastrointestinal motility drug metoclopramide, drugs for treating hyperthyroidism, the Chinese medicine tripterygium wilfordii glycosides, etc. Its characteristic is that the menstrual cycle is often normal before taking these drugs, but delayed after taking them. If the taking time is very short, it often returns to normal after stopping taking them. If the taking time is too long, drug regulation is often required.

3. Pregnancy: You can use urine pregnancy test 7 days after the menstruation is delayed. If the result is positive, you are very likely to be pregnant. If the result is negative, the opposite is true. But if you are pregnant, there will be other symptoms such as nausea, breast tenderness, etc. Of course, the last resort is to go to the hospital for an ultrasound examination.

The above is my opinion on this issue. If the patient has the above problems, the patient needs to pay attention to take appropriate measures in time to ensure the health of the body and avoid dangerous situations caused by the above menstrual problems in female patients. Finally, I wish the patient a speedy recovery.