Can I smoke during menstruation?

Women's menstruation can ensure normal metabolism in the female body and regularly excrete excess secretions from the female uterus, thereby ensuring the health of the female body. During menstruation, women need to pay attention to personal hygiene to prevent private part infection. In addition, you can also drink more brown sugar water and other foods that can replenish blood and qi to help the body recover quickly. So, can women smoke during menstruation?

Maintaining a woman's youth and secondary sexual characteristics depends on the female hormone secreted by the ovaries. Aromatase is an essential enzyme in the synthesis of estrogen. Nicotine, the main killer substance in cigarettes, is the mortal enemy of aromatase. It has a specific inhibitory effect on aromatase in the ovaries, reducing the production of estrogen. When women lack estrogen, it is like flowers losing the nourishment of rain and dew. Not only does it make the skin rough and wrinkles appear early, but the more serious consequence is that it affects the development of the girl's reproductive organs such as the uterus and fallopian tubes, and secondary sexual characteristics such as breasts, and affects the normal menstrual pattern. Excessive smoking in adult women can cause infrequent menstruation or amenorrhea, and in severe cases can affect conception. Long-term smoking can also cause menopause to come earlier and make post-menopausal osteoporosis symptoms more severe. I hope female friends will cherish their lives and health and cut off all ties with cigarettes as soon as possible.

Menstrual taboos

1. Sexual intercourse is not suitable. During menstruation, the endometrium is shed and wounds are formed on the surface of the uterine cavity. During sexual intercourse, it is easy for bacteria to enter the uterus retrogradely, causing intrauterine infection, adnexitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease.

2. Do not eat too much salt. Eating too much salt will increase the salt and water storage in the body. You will experience headaches, excitement and irritability on the eve of menstruation. You should start eating low-salt foods 10 days before menstruation.

3. Do not drink tea during menstruation as it can easily increase the loss of iron molecules. Normally, a certain amount of iron, an important element for synthesizing hemoglobin in the human body, is lost every day. But for women, with the large amount of blood lost during menstruation, more iron will be lost than usual. If you drink tea during this period, it will undoubtedly increase the loss of iron. Because tea contains 50% tannic acid, it will combine with the iron molecules in food to form precipitates, hindering the absorption of iron molecules by the intestinal mucosa. The stronger the tea, the less the body can absorb the iron molecules. Therefore, try not to drink tea at this time, and eat some iron-rich foods to supplement iron.

4. It is not advisable to sit in a bath. During the menstrual period, sitting in a bath or taking a bath in a tub with the cervix slightly open can easily allow sewage to enter the uterine cavity and cause inflammation of the reproductive organs.

5. Do not wear tight pants. If you wear tight pants with small hip circumference during menstruation, it will compress local capillaries, thus affecting blood circulation and increasing perineal friction, which can easily cause perineal congestion and edema.

6. It is not advisable to sing loudly. During menstruation, women's respiratory mucosa is congested and the vocal cords are also congested. Singing loudly or talking loudly will easily fatigue the vocal cord muscles, which will cause glottal disharmony and hoarseness. However, there is no need to be too nervous. In most cases, singing K or talking with a normal voice should not be a problem. However, if you sing high notes for a long time or challenge high-range songs, it may cause vocal cord injury.

7. It is not advisable to beat the back. Beating can cause further congestion in the pelvis and accelerated blood flow, leading to excessive menstruation or prolonged menstruation. In addition, many women will experience severe back pain during menstruation. They may choose to have others massage them or beat themselves to relieve waist fatigue and soreness. Chen Zhiliao said that it is very normal for women to experience back pain during menstruation, which is caused by pelvic congestion. Blindly massaging or beating the waist vigorously at this time will cause the pelvic congestion to become more serious, which will aggravate the back pain.

8. Avoid using shower gel to clean the genitals. Consequences: Cause genital infection and itching. The genitals are prone to odor during menstruation, especially in summer. However, it is not healthy to use shower gel to clean the genitals or to wash the genitals repeatedly with hot water while taking a bath. Instead, it is easy to cause genital infection and itching. Because the female vagina is a slightly acidic environment on weekdays, it can inhibit bacterial growth, but during menstruation, the vagina will be alkaline, and the resistance to bacteria will be reduced, making it easy to be infected. If you do not use professional vaginal cleaning fluid or wash it repeatedly with hot water, it will lead to an increase in alkalinity. Therefore, you need to choose professional vaginal cleaning fluid to clean the genitals, especially during menstruation!

9. Don't extract teeth. Consequences: It is easy to cause heavy bleeding and infection. Don't extract teeth during menstruation, because during menstruation, the number of platelets in women's bodies decreases, and the blood coagulability is lower than usual. If traumatic surgery, including tooth extraction, is performed at this time, it may be difficult to stop the bleeding, resulting in more bleeding and longer bleeding time than usual surgery. According to research, women's pain nerves are more sensitive than usual during menstruation, and their overall resistance is weaker, so tooth extraction during menstruation will double the pain and increase the infection rate. If you have a tooth extracted during menstruation, you will have to face the bloody smell in your mouth for a long time after the extraction, which will affect your appetite. Therefore, it is recommended that women avoid tooth extraction during menstruation.

10. Avoid eating fried foods. Consequences: Pimples and acne are prone to appear. Fried foods are also a big taboo for women during menstruation because the progesterone in the receptor endocrine affects the sebum secretion of women during menstruation, which increases the skin's oily skin. At the same time, the capillaries dilate and the skin becomes sensitive. Eating fried foods at this time will increase the burden on the skin and make pimples, acne, folliculitis and dark circles more likely to appear. In addition, the metabolism of fat and water slows down during menstruation, so eating fried foods at this time can easily cause fat to accumulate in the body.

11. Do not use blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs. Consequences: It will increase menstrual blood flow and cause anemia. Generally speaking, blood-enriching health products and blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs should be discontinued during the menstrual period, but many women do not understand this and find that their menstrual flow suddenly increases. In severe cases, it may even cause severe anemia or heavy bleeding during menstruation. Using blood-replenishing and blood-activating drugs during menstruation will, on the one hand, increase the flow of menstrual blood, thereby causing unnecessary excessive menstrual bleeding; on the other hand, menstrual bleeding may also affect the efficacy of the drugs.

12. [1] Don’t drink alcohol. Consequences: You may get drunk easily, which may cause liver problems. Some studies have shown that women’s hormone levels fluctuate greatly during menstruation, so they are more likely to get drunk when drinking alcohol than usual. The burden of alcohol on the liver will also be further increased. Therefore, it is recommended that women drink as little alcohol as possible during menstruation.