What should I do if my menstrual flow is light at the age of 40?

I believe everyone knows the importance of menstruation to female friends. If there is a problem with female friends' menstruation, it will not only easily bring discomfort to female friends but also easily bring great psychological pressure to female friends. Therefore, we recommend that the majority of female friends should pay attention to their menstruation. Some female friends will have symptoms of little menstruation when they are forty years old. In the following article, we will introduce what to do if there is little menstrual flow in your forties.

Oligomenorrhea is a menstrual disorder, which mainly refers to the situation that the menstrual cycle is basically normal, but the menstrual volume is significantly reduced. Many female friends do not take light menstrual flow seriously, but in fact it will lead to serious consequences over time. Menstruation is a barometer of the female body. If there is a problem with menstruation, it means that there are certain diseases in the female body, so it should be treated in time. Let's take a look at what a 40-year-old woman should do if her menstrual flow is small?

The causes and pathologies of oligomenorrhea include both deficiency and excess. Deficiency is mostly due to physical weakness, serious illness, long-term illness, blood loss, or diet and fatigue that damage the spleen, or sexual fatigue that damages the kidneys, which leads to deficiency of the blood sea and reduced menstrual volume; excess is mostly due to blood stasis in the body, or phlegm and dampness stagnation, which block the meridians, poor blood circulation, and reduced menstrual blood.

If the menstrual flow is small and always comes early, you can adjust it according to the following methods:

1. Eat more iron-containing and nutritious foods. Patients with scanty menstruation can supplement with iron-rich foods to avoid iron deficiency anemia. Eat more nourishing foods such as black-bone chicken, shrimp, prawns, lamb, fish roe, pork and sheep kidneys, mussels, sea cucumbers, black beans, walnut kernels, etc.

2. Develop good living habits. Develop good living habits to avoid staying up late, overwork, irregular life, etc., which may lead to irregular menstruation. Get your life into a regular routine and your periods may return to normal.

3. Prevent cold, keep warm and prevent cold, avoid wading in the rain during menstruation, etc. Preventing cold is the most critical step.

4. Adjust your mindset. Adjusting your mindset is also very important. Irregular menstruation is caused by frustration and stress, so you must adjust your mentality.

In the above article, we introduced the importance of menstruation to female friends. We suggest that female friends pay attention to their menstruation in daily life. The above article gives us a detailed introduction on what to do if the menstrual flow is light in the forties.