What should I do if I have severe dysmenorrhea?

Every woman will inevitably experience dysmenorrhea, but the symptoms of dysmenorrhea are different for each person. In most cases, women's dysmenorrhea symptoms are dull pain in the abdomen. In addition, some people's dysmenorrhea is more severe, and they may experience severe pain in the lower abdomen. This pain can make women very uncomfortable. To solve this problem, we need to start from many aspects, such as taking medicine, and there are also the following methods.

What should I do if I have severe dysmenorrhea?

Menstrual taboos

Do not have sex or take a bath during menstruation; avoid contact with cold water and washing feet with cold water, avoid eating spicy and cold food, and you can eat some acidic food appropriately.

Hot compress, brown sugar water

When you have dysmenorrhea, you can rest in bed and apply hot compress to your lower abdomen to relieve the symptoms; drink some brown sugar water. Brown sugar is warm in nature and has a warming effect, which can dredge the tendons and veins and help eliminate menstruation. However, you should not drink brown sugar water if you have heavy menstrual flow.

Take painkillers appropriately

If you can't stand the pain, you can take some painkillers, but you need to avoid becoming dependent on them.

Essential oil aromatherapy

Regulate menstruation: real lavender + geranium + rose essential oil + sweet almond oil

Regulating menstruation: Frankincense + Rose + Jojoba Oil - Massage the abdomen 7 days before menstruation

In severe cases, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination

It is generally believed that dysmenorrhea is a common symptom among girls. As they grow up, especially after marriage and childbirth, dysmenorrhea will naturally disappear and no treatment is needed. However, dysmenorrhea pain that lasts for up to 3 days should be treated.

Dysmenorrhea is characterized by pain in the lower abdomen and waist during and before and after menstruation, often accompanied by pale complexion, cold sweats on the head and face, cold hands and feet, nausea and vomiting, etc. In Chinese medicine, it is also called menstrual abdominal pain. According to different clinical symptoms, it can be divided into four types: Qi stagnation and blood stasis type, cold and dampness stagnation type, Qi and blood deficiency type, and liver and kidney deficiency type. The following introduces the types of dysmenorrhea and the corresponding medicinal foods, which can be selected as appropriate. Generally, it should be taken 3 to 4 days before menstruation.

Dysmenorrhea is divided into two categories: primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea. Primary dysmenorrhea refers to dysmenorrhea without organic lesions of the reproductive organs; secondary dysmenorrhea refers to dysmenorrhea caused by organic pelvic diseases, such as endometriosis and adenomyosis.