What causes long menstrual period?

Women have such a few days every month. Healthy women have menstruation time of 3 to 7 days. If the menstrual period exceeds seven days, it is abnormal. There are many reasons for irregular menstruation. It may be a problem with the endometrium, or it may be caused by organic lesions. You need to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, and symptomatic treatment after diagnosis. What's the matter with the long tail of menstruation? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What causes a long menstrual period?

Irregular menstruation. Common in uterine fibroids, endometrial polyps, endometrial hyperplasia, endometriosis, etc. If there is no organic lesion found during the examination, functional uterine bleeding should be considered, which refers to abnormal uterine bleeding caused by endocrine regulation system disorders without obvious organic lesions in the internal and external reproductive organs. It is the most common type of menstrual disorder.

2. Diet during menstruation

One of the principles of a healthy diet for women is a "cyclical diet" that matches the changes in the menstrual cycle. This is also the main difference between men and women in terms of diet regimen for beauty and health.

Many women experience some uncomfortable symptoms in the few days before their period (premenstrual period), such as depression, anxiety, tension, insomnia, irritability, restlessness, fatigue, etc. It is generally believed that this is related to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body. At this time, women should choose foods and medicines that are good for the skin and beauty, and can also replenish qi, soothe the liver, and regulate negative emotions, such as cabbage, grapefruit, lean pork, celery, japonica rice, duck eggs, fried atractylodes, yam, coix seed, lily, golden loofah, winter melon, kelp, sea cucumber, carrot, white radish, walnut kernels, black fungus, mushrooms, etc.

During menstruation, symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue may occur. At this time, it is advisable to choose foods and medicines that are beneficial to the skin and beauty and are also beneficial to the "menstrual flow". Recommended foods and medicines include: mutton, chicken, red dates, tofu skin, apples, coix seed, beef, milk, eggs, brown sugar, motherwort, angelica, rehmannia, peach blossom, etc.

The ancients said: "During the menstrual period, heat is often used instead of cold. Cold will retain the blood, causing turbidity and filth, which will lead to stranguria and fullness." Therefore, during the menstrual period, many foods that have good skin-beautifying effects should be avoided, such as pears, bananas, water chestnuts, stone ear, stone flower, water caltrop, winter melon, kale, black fungus, rabbit meat, hemp seeds, etc.

3. Notes

When menstruation comes, some blood is lost. The main components of blood are plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium and other inorganic salts. This means that some protein and inorganic salts are lost every time menstruation comes. Therefore, in principle, within 1-5 days after the menstruation is over (after the menstrual period), nutrients such as protein, minerals and some blood tonics should be supplemented. During this period, you can choose foods and medicines that can benefit the skin and beautify the body and have the effect of replenishing blood and promoting blood circulation, such as: milk, eggs, quail eggs, beef, mutton, pig pancreas, water chestnut, spinach, cherry, longan meat, lychee meat, carrots, apples, angelica, safflower, peach blossom, cooked rehmannia, polygonatum, etc.