Can I wash my hair during my period?

Many women have this question: Can they wash their hair during menstruation? For women, their resistance will be weaker during menstruation than at other times, so they must take good care of their bodies. It is best not to wash their hair during menstruation. You should pay attention to keeping warm, avoid cold, cool, raw, and cold stimulation, and prevent the invasion of cold evil. During menstruation, you should eat nutritious and easily digestible food, drink plenty of water, and eat more vegetables. This can keep your bowels open and reduce pelvic congestion.

Question 1

During menstruation, women's resistance decreases. If the body is exposed to cold, the qi and blood will stagnate, which may also lead to menstrual disorders or dysmenorrhea. Therefore, it makes sense not to be exposed to wind and cold, wade in the rain, wash feet or take cold baths with cold water, or eat raw or cold food during menstruation.

Question 2

Many people believe that you should not wash your hair during menstruation because they believe that washing your hair during menstruation will cause hormonal imbalance, resulting in incomplete menstrual blood discharge. The accumulated blood remaining in the uterus is very harmful to the body and may even cause cancer in severe cases.

Question 3

1. Western medicine believes that there is no medical basis for not washing your hair during menstruation, but Chinese medicine theory disagrees. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head is the head of the six yang meridians and the uterus is the starting point of the Ren meridian. During menstrual period, blood circulation is inherently poor. Washing your hair will cause blood to concentrate in the head, affecting the blood circulation in the uterus, making it impossible for the blood in the uterus to be discharged smoothly, which can easily cause a decrease in menstrual blood volume or menstrual pain.

2. On the other hand, since the pores on the hair roots are open, if you catch a cold at this time, it is easy to cause headaches, especially if you wash your hair at night or before going to bed.

3. Since night is yin and head is the first of six yang, when yin and yang are at odds, headaches will be more serious. If you go to bed immediately before your hair is completely dry, and your body's resistance and metabolism are low, all kinds of problems will definitely find you.

Method 1

You can wash your hair during menstruation, but the key is not to get cold. Menstrual blood is not dirty blood, but normal blood of the human body. In addition to blood, menstruation also contains broken and detached endometrial fragments, cervical mucus and the vaginal epithelium that falls off. Under the regulation of the hypothalamus, the endocrine center of the human body, estrogen and progesterone in sexually mature women undergo cyclical changes. As these hormone levels increase, the endometrium thickens and ovulation occurs. At this time, if there is no sperm to make the woman pregnant, the hormone level will drop. At the same time, the endometrium is destroyed, disintegrated, and falls off due to the loss of hormonal support, resulting in menstruation. So some people call menstruation "the disappointed endometrium's protest against the non-implantation of the embryo."