Is it good to stimulate ovulation?

Many female friends who have difficulty getting pregnant will choose to use chorionic vomica to help them get pregnant. In fact, this is a method that is not good for their health. Blindly using chorionic vomica to stimulate ovulation will only cause infinite harm to the body and even endanger safety. As the saying goes, "Diet therapy is worse than medicine", female friends can promote pregnancy by eating more ovulation-promoting foods. This method is safer and healthier.

1. What is ovulation induction?

As we all know, normal women ovulate an egg every month, but some women have abnormal phenomena in the functioning of their ovaries, hypothalamus, and ovarian axis, which makes it difficult for the body to ovulate, affecting normal conception. For such women, doctors will use scientific methods to help the uterus produce mature eggs. For women who have difficulty ovulating, they must cooperate with their doctor to improve the situation through medication. For most women, diet therapy can promote ovulation.

2. Food therapy

The same effect of ovulation can be achieved through dietary adjustments: reduce fat intake, eat less carbohydrates, and control abnormal androgens and gonadotropins in the body through scientific weight loss. Chinese medicine believes that eating black beans can achieve this effect. It contains a variety of proteins and vitamins and plays a role similar to estrogen. In addition to nourishing blood and kidney and promoting ovulation, people with weak bodies can improve their physical fitness by eating more black beans. Women can start eating it from the first day after the menstruation ends, about 45 grams a day, and eat it for a week to be effective.

· Foods that promote ovulation

1. Principle

The biggest reason why many women cannot ovulate normally is uterine cold, which can directly induce irregular menstruation. The ovaries need blood nutrition to produce mature follicles, but irregular menstruation leads to insufficient blood nutrition supply, making it difficult to ovulate. Therefore, you must pay attention to warming the uterus in diet therapy. There are also some uterus warming soups on the market, which can be taken in combination with ovulation drugs and pregnancy drugs.

2. Classification

Women need to pay more attention to their diet. Some foods can promote ovulation, and the more the better. However, some foods are egg killers, so they need to be avoided. Next, let’s take a look at what foods we can eat and what foods we can’t eat:

The more the better: beans, especially black beans, ginger, vinegar, coix seed, garlic, chestnut, orange, vegetable oil, call, chicken soup, beef soup, etc.

Prohibited foods: spicy, cold, raw, pickled foods, carbonated drinks, cabbage, onions, tobacco, alcohol, etc.

3. Recipes

Here are some recommended dishes:

Ingredients: pork tripe and lotus seeds.

Preparation method: After cleaning the pig stomach, add an appropriate amount of lotus seeds, tie both ends of the stomach tightly, then put the stomach into the pot to stew, add appropriate amount of seasoning, and eat it after it is cooked.

Function: Promote ovulation while replenishing Qi and strengthening the spleen.

Ingredients: 6g black fungus, 0.2kg japonica rice, 6 dates, and a handful of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Fill a basin with warm water, then soak the black fungus in the basin. After soaking, remove the stems of the fungus, wash away impurities, and finally chop it with a knife. Next, wash the rice, clean the japonica rice, and then put all the ingredients except rock sugar into the pot, add water and boil. You can use high heat first, and after the water boils, continue to cook over low heat. After the japonica rice blooms, add rock sugar and wait until the sugar dissolves before eating.

Function: It mainly regulates the uterus. It can have a good conditioning effect on women who have irregular bleeding in the lower body, accompanied by pale face, general weakness, and poor appetite. In addition to nourishing the uterus and promoting ovulation, it can also regulate gastrointestinal function. However, this type of porridge is not suitable for people with colds and fevers, nor is it suitable for pregnant mothers to drink.

(3) Brown sugar ginger soup

Ingredients: half a pound of brown sugar, three ounces of minced ginger.

Method: Mix the two and divide into seven portions. Steam them over water for half an hour each time. Starting from the day after your period ends, drink it every morning after mixing it with boiling water. Do not eat anything before drinking it. Drink it for a week in a row. Avoid intimate relations during the conditioning phase.

Benefits of brown sugar ginger tea:

From ancient times to the present, medical books and health books have strongly recommended the health benefits of ginger. Many people use ginger for health preservation. This is mainly because cold and dampness are the main causes of many chronic diseases in the body. Ginger is very effective in dispelling cold and fever, and it has no side effects.

Due to diet, lifestyle habits and other reasons, many female friends suffer from uterine cold. Brown sugar ginger tea has the effect of warming the uterus and promoting blood circulation. It can warm the uterus, make menstrual blood flow smoothly, improve dysmenorrhea, and aid pregnancy. Brown sugar ginger tea is very effective in improving dysmenorrhea.

The editor reminds you: drink more often on a normal basis, don’t wait until you feel pain to drink.

The best time to drink brown sugar ginger tea:

7:00-11:00: This is the working time of the spleen and stomach, so drinking brown sugar ginger tea during this period is the best and is absorbed the fastest. You can drink less at other times, especially at night. Drinking too much brown sugar ginger tea can easily cause internal heat!

3. Be cautious when inducing ovulation!!!

Currently, many young mothers choose to stimulate ovulation in order to conceive twins, but is this method really feasible? Does it have any side effects? This article reminds you that you must be cautious when inducing ovulation!

Overstimulation of the ovaries can cause serious reactions such as kidney failure

Under the precise regulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis, women ovulate and menstruate every month, and when the time is right, they can also realize their "baby-making plan." In today's society, work, exams, changes in living environment, etc. constantly generate psychological pressure. Various diseases also have a ripple effect on the entire body, which can disrupt the delicate regulatory process of women, causing ovulation dysfunction, menstrual abnormalities or even amenorrhea, resulting in infertility.

Ovulation-stimulating drugs play a key role in the treatment of infertility due to ovulatory dysfunction. However, many women who are eagerly waiting to have children are worried that taking these drugs may cause them to develop cancer, premature ovarian failure, or even die of a sudden illness. On the other hand, there are also many people with healthy reproductive functions who hope to have twins by taking ovulation-stimulating drugs, thereby circumventing the family planning policy. An obstetrician and gynecologist in Guangzhou pointed out that people's fear of and abuse of ovulation-stimulating drugs coexist, so be careful not to lose both the wife and the "army".

4. The risk of tumors caused by ovulation induction needs to be evaluated

There is a "continuous ovulation theory" in medicine that holds that every time an egg is released, a wound will be created on the surface of the ovary, and there is a certain chance of developing ovarian epithelial tumors during the process of the body repairing it. Ovulation-stimulating drugs can cause the ovaries to release more eggs than the normal one per month, which may increase the risk of ovarian cancer. On the other hand, the ovulation-inducing drug clomiphene is similar to the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, both of which are estrogen receptor antagonists and may reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Having said that, whether taking ovulation-stimulating drugs will increase or reduce the risk of tumors still needs to be confirmed through long-term clinical observation. Deng Minduan said that the relationship between ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, breast cancer, etc. and ovulation-inducing drugs has not yet been determined, and there is insufficient evidence in evidence-based medicine, so women do not need to worry too much. What is worth noting is the impact of ovulation-inducing drugs on the next generation - studies have found that these drugs may increase the risk of the fetus developing retinoblastoma and neuroblastoma.

5. Ovulation induction leading to premature ovarian failure may be a coincidence

Premature ovarian failure is another major concern for women - after ovulation induction treatment, the ovarian follicles are exhausted, and what should women do if they experience amenorrhea before the age of 40? Deng Minduan introduced that the number of follicles in women's ovaries is limited, and will gradually decrease with age. When the follicles are gone, it means ovarian failure, and the estrogen produced by the follicles will gradually decrease, and women's body functions will begin to decline.

There is still controversy in the medical community about the relationship between premature ovarian failure and ovulation-inducing drugs. Most experts believe that ovulation-stimulating drugs do not deplete the follicles in the ovaries. The early development of follicles takes several menstrual cycles. They are "recruited" in batches to start their development. It takes about 85 days from the beginning of their development to the pre-ovulation state. The first 70 days are not affected by ovulation-inducing drugs, and the number of follicles that develop during this period continues to decrease. At the beginning of the menstrual cycle, a group of recruited follicles undergo 70 days of development, respond to ovulation-stimulating drugs and accelerate their growth. Eventually, one or several mature follicles can ovulate successfully, while the rest will undergo apoptosis. Therefore, at best, ovulation-stimulating drugs will only deplete this batch of follicles, and will not affect the follicles in the ovaries that have not been "recruited" and started to develop. A small number of women experience premature ovarian failure after using ovulation-inducing drugs. This may not be the effect of the drugs, because premature ovarian failure is also closely related to genetic, environmental, immune and other factors.

6. Ovaries that are too high can kill people

Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is another serious adverse reaction of ovulation-inducing drugs that has not received enough attention. The reaction to oral ovulation-stimulating drugs is relatively mild. The injection of HMG and other drugs can cause multiple ovarian follicles to develop simultaneously, secreting a large amount of estrogen, causing the estrogen level in the blood to rise sharply, causing a large amount of body fluid exudation, ascites, pleural effusion and edema. The patient gains weight and feels abdominal distension, chest tightness and other discomforts. In severe cases, acute renal failure may occur and may even be life-threatening.