How many years can a woman work night shifts?

Normally, most people work the day shift, but some jobs are special and need to be completed at night, or require night shifts. Working night shifts is very harmful to the human body, especially for women, who may suffer from endocrine disorders, poor skin color and other symptoms if they work night shifts for a long time. Therefore, many women are worried that they cannot work night shifts for a long time. So, how many years at most can a woman work night shifts? Let’s take a look below.

The dangers of working night shifts for women

Impaired gastrointestinal function

Because gastrointestinal motility slows down at night, the night meal eaten during the night shift will stay in the stomach for a long time, prompting a large amount of gastric juice to be secreted. The gastric mucosa is stimulated by gastric acid for a long time. Over time, it may cause indigestion or even erosion of the gastric mucosa and ulcers.

Causes temporary infertility

Women of childbearing age who often work night shifts will not only affect their mental state the next day, but also cause a decrease in immunity, which may affect the secretion of estrogen and the quality of eggs, leading to temporary infertility.

Affects skin health

Women who often work night shifts do not get good skin care. This is because the body secretes more growth hormone during sleep, which can promote skin cell regeneration and make people radiant. On the contrary, staying up late often may cause women's skin to become rough and yellowish, and sex hormone secretion disorders in the body; it can also worsen blood circulation around the eyes, leading to dark circles and bags under the eyes.

Cause gynecological diseases

If women stay up late and work overtime for a long time, it will change the body's original biological clock, thereby disrupting the body's life rhythm and causing endocrine dysfunction, which in turn affects women's ovulation cycle, irregular menstruation, unbalanced progesterone secretion, and even uterine fibroids, endometrial lesions, breast lesions, etc.