Do essential oils affect menstruation?

Many women like essential oil care. Essential oil care can indeed achieve a certain beauty and skin care effect, and it also has certain benefits for the health of the body. However, when doing essential oil care, you must also understand the precautions. It is best not to do essential oil care during the menstrual period, because women’s physical constitution is more sensitive during this period, and their physical constitution will also decline to a certain extent, which can easily cause adverse effects on health.

Do essential oils affect menstruation?

For women, menstruation is the most sensitive period of the body. During menstruation, the body's resistance will decrease. If essential oils are used, it will conflict with menstruation and may affect the normal menstrual volume, which may cause increased blood volume. In severe cases, there may be hemorrhage or delayed menstruation. Therefore, it is generally recommended that women do not use essential oils during menstruation.

It is recommended that women who want to use essential oils should start using them 7 days after the end of their menstrual period. If they use them 2 to 3 days after the end of their menstrual period, it may cause their menstrual period to come again. In addition, women who have the habit of using essential oils on a daily basis are advised to stop using them three days before the next menstrual period.

What should you not do during your menstrual period?

1. Do not take a sitz bath

During menstruation, the cervix is ​​slightly open, and sitting baths and tub baths can easily allow sewage to enter the uterine cavity, causing inflammation of the reproductive organs.

2. Avoid eating too much salt

Eating too much salt will increase the body's salt and water storage, leading to symptoms such as headache, excitement and irritability on the eve of menstruation. You should start eating low-salt foods 10 days before menstruation.

3. Not suitable for sexual life

During menstruation, the endometrium sheds and forms wounds on the surface of the uterine cavity. During intercourse, bacteria are easily brought into the uterus and cause intrauterine infection, adnexitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease.

4. Don’t sing loudly

During menstruation, women's respiratory mucosa and vocal cords are congested. When singing or talking loudly, the vocal cord muscles are easily fatigued, which may 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.

5. Avoid drinking alcohol

Before and during menstruation, women are affected by hormone secretion, which reduces the activity of the body's decomposition enzymes and reduces the ability to metabolize alcohol. As a result, alcohol is not easily excreted from the blood quickly, but instead becomes an "acidic substance" that is harmful to the body. In order to remove these acidic substances, the liver must continuously produce enzymes. As a result, the burden on the liver will be increased, making it more likely to cause liver dysfunction.

6. Avoid eating foods with a cool nature

It is not advisable to eat foods that are cool in nature, such as ice cream, winter melon, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, oranges, pears, grapefruit, watermelon, etc. In addition, it is not advisable to eat sour foods, such as sour plums, unripe sour fruits, or some spicy foods, such as fried foods, chili peppers, pepper, mustard, etc. They should also be avoided during menstruation to avoid causing blood flow problems.