If your menstrual flow suddenly increases, you should check for these diseases!

When women have their menstrual period every month, the amount of bleeding is within a normal range. If calculated based on the number of sanitary napkins used, under normal circumstances, four or five sanitary napkins are used a day, and the number of sanitary napkins used during each menstrual period should not exceed 20. If the amount of sanitary napkins used exceeds this number, you should be alert to the possibility that the excessive menstrual flow is caused by some disease. At this time, you should go to the hospital for examination to see what disease is causing it.

The following diseases should be checked for women who have a sudden increase in menstrual flow every month:

1. Uterine bleeding

Due to excessive secretion of ovarian estrogen, long-term stimulation of the endometrium causes it to proliferate beyond normal thickness, resulting in increased bleeding during shedding, such as anovulatory functional uterine bleeding.

2. Excessive menstrual flow in women may be caused by uterine fibroids.

Endometrial bleeding is the main symptom of uterine fibroids, but in the vast majority of patients, endometrial bleeding often manifests as periodic increased menstrual bleeding and irregular menstruation. If your menstruation suddenly becomes irregular, or if one of the following situations occurs, you should be alert: heavy menstruation, cyclical bleeding, often accompanied by prolonged menstruation; shortened menstrual cycle, heavy menstrual flow; irregular bleeding, menstruation loses its normal periodicity, the menstrual flow is sometimes more and sometimes less, and it is continuous and lasts for a long time.

3. Inflammation of the reproductive organs.

If there is heavy vaginal bleeding accompanied by lower abdominal or lower back pain, increased vaginal discharge, abnormal color or odor, fever, and frequent and painful urination, you should consider a reproductive organ infection.

4. Cervical hypertrophy.

Cervical hypertrophy is a type of chronic cervicitis. The main symptoms include heavy menstruation, purulent leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region, or frequent urination, urgency, pain when urinating, and bleeding during sexual intercourse. Severe cases can cause endometritis, salpingo-oophoritis, and fallopian tube adhesions, leading to infertility and increasing the risk of cervical cancer.

5. Blood disease.

Such as: leukemia, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenic purpura, pernicious anemia, etc. Because menstruation, like other bleeding phenomena in the human body, is regulated by the body's own coagulation system. If there is an abnormality in the coagulation system, for example, in hemophilia patients who are born with a lack of a certain coagulation factor, the blood will not coagulate easily, resulting in heavy menstrual flow and prolonged bleeding. If you have been having heavy periods for a long time and your gynaecologist cannot find any cause, you should consider undergoing a detailed blood test to see if you have a blood disease.