How long does it take for my period to end?

Women will have their periods when they reach a certain age. The timing of most girls' periods is different. Some are very short, even disappearing in a day, while others are very long, even lasting a week. The duration of each menstrual period is called the menstrual period. The normal menstrual period is 3 to 7 days, and most women have 3 to 5 days. Menstruation that lasts too long is called prolonged menstruation. Menstruation that lasts too long or too short is a pathological condition.

Hygiene precautions

1. Pay attention to hygiene and prevent infection: Pay attention to the cleanliness of the external genitalia. It is not advisable to take a bath in a tub during menstruation, but you can take a shower to prevent ascending infection. The sanitary napkins used should be soft, clean and changed frequently.

2. Keep warm and avoid cold stimulation: such as swimming, cold water baths, going into paddy fields, etc. If you are exposed to sudden and excessive cold stimulation during menstruation, it may cause too little menstrual blood or dysmenorrhea.

3. Keep a happy spirit and avoid mental stimulation and mood swings.

4. Avoid overwork, avoid eating raw, cold, spicy, alcoholic and other irritating foods, drink plenty of water, keep bowel movements smooth, reduce pelvic congestion, pay attention to proper rest and get enough sleep

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5. Drinking

Also affected by hormone secretion in the body, the alcohol-degrading enzymes in women during menstruation decrease, so they get drunk more easily after drinking. What's more serious is that in order to produce enzymes to help break down alcohol, the liver's burden is significantly increased. Therefore, drinking during this period will cause more serious damage to the liver than usual, increasing the possibility of causing liver dysfunction. 6 These beverages contain high levels of caffeine, which can easily stimulate the nerves and cardiovascular system, leading to uncomfortable symptoms such as menstrual pain, prolonged menstruation, and excessive menstrual bleeding.

6. Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse should be avoided during menstruation, as having sex during menstruation can easily cause bacterial infection. The menstrual endometrium is shed to form a wound, and the cervix is ​​also slightly dilated. In addition, due to the discharge of menstrual blood, the acidic environment in the vagina is diluted and the self-cleaning ability of the vagina is weakened. During sexual intercourse at this time, the male genitals will bring bacteria into the infected endometrium, causing pelvic inflammation and causing pain to the female. In addition. It should also be noted that you cannot have sexual intercourse during menstruation when using condoms, because condoms can only prevent sperm from entering the vagina, but cannot prevent bacteria from entering the vagina, so doing so is also harmful.

Dietary Tips

Drink less milk during menstruation

There are several types of beverages with a mild nature. Fruit juices made from apples, pineapples, grapes, etc. are relatively mild in nature; oolong tea is neither cold nor hot, and is a neutral tea beverage; carrot juice, a common vegetable juice, is relatively mild in nature; various milk beverages such as milk tea are generally neutral or cool in nature, which is mainly related to the ingredients of milk beverages, because milk is cool in nature, if it is made into milk tea with warm black tea, then its nature is mild; if cool fruits and other foods are added, it will be cool in nature.

Warm or hot beverages mainly include the following

Fruit juices made from hawthorn, peach, coconut, papaya, apricot, bayberry, orange, cherry, lychee, pomegranate, etc. as main ingredients are warm or hot in nature; among carbonated beverages, only cola is warm in nature; coffee and beverages with coffee as the main ingredient are warm in nature; among tea beverages, black tea is warm in nature.

Cold or cooling drinks include the following

Fruit juices made from bananas, oranges, grapefruits, lemons, pears, kiwis, loquats, strawberries, sugarcane, mangoes, watermelons, etc. as main ingredients are cold or cool in nature; cucumber juice and tomato juice among vegetable juices are both cool in nature; green tea among tea beverages is cool in nature; various herbal teas made from traditional Chinese medicine as main ingredients are cold in nature and cool in taste.

Now that we know that drinks can be cold or hot, how should we choose? There are not many taboos when drinking beverages with mild properties and flavors; friends who are troubled by "heat" symptoms such as red tongue, yellow tongue coating, dry mouth, thirst, constipation, sore throat, etc., should drink less hot or warm beverages.

Those who have a cold constitution and are often afraid of cold and wind, sweat a lot, and have clear and cold urine should not drink too many cool or cold beverages. Otherwise, it will not only aggravate the above discomfort, but in severe cases it may even cause abdominal pain or even diarrhea.

In addition, women during menstruation, postpartum women, people with colds, the elderly and infants should not drink cool or cold beverages. It is important to note that you should not drink beverages after a full meal. You should choose to drink between meals or 20-30 minutes before meals.