My face feels bigger when my period comes.

After the menstrual period comes, many women experience facial swelling, and some women even experience lower limb swelling, insomnia, irritability, headache and other discomfort symptoms. There are many different causes for this type of disease that have been identified in medicine. Only when women have a comprehensive understanding of these reasons can they find the right way to eliminate facial swelling and deal with the distress caused by facial swelling during menstruation.

1. Estrogen transformation. After the menstrual period comes, the female hormones in a woman's body will undergo a huge change, among which estrogen will increase significantly. Under such circumstances, women's bodies will have sodium and water retention, and the excretion of toxins and waste water in the body will be greatly hindered, which will cause women to have facial swelling, and some women even have edema all over their bodies.

2. Physical fitness due to liver qi stagnation. If a woman has a physique of liver qi stagnation, she will experience significant facial edema, soreness and swelling of the skin, chest tightness and shortness of breath, dizziness, irritability and anger during her menstrual period. For this kind of situation, some Chinese medicine prescriptions must be used to help the body regulate qi and dampness, and eliminate liver qi stagnation, so as to completely solve the problem of facial swelling.

3. Constitution of spleen and kidney qi deficiency. This kind of physical condition can also cause women to have facial swelling during menstruation. Patients are also often accompanied by symptoms such as short and scanty urination, abdominal distension, tinnitus, dizziness, loose stools, and coldness in the waist and knees. For this kind of situation, the patient should focus on warming the spleen, stomach and kidneys, so as to completely solve the human symptoms.

4. Blood stasis, qi stagnation and blood stasis physical fitness. Women with this physical condition may also experience facial swelling, as well as abdominal pain, scanty menstruation, blood clots and other symptoms. Some women may even experience gradual aggravation of the swelling.

The above factors are the main causes of facial swelling during women's menstrual period in traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Women can identify the cause of the disease based on their own symptoms. If necessary, you can go to the hospital outpatient department for a clear diagnosis. For this kind of facial swelling, women should reduce their daily salt intake and eat more diuretic foods such as winter melon and mung bean, which can effectively eliminate facial edema.