What causes lower back pain during menstruation?

Menstruation is something every girl experiences since puberty. Menstruation means that girls are growing up, and it is also an important factor for every girl to become a mother, so menstruation is very important for every girl. However, some girls experience back pain during menstruation. So what are the causes of back pain? How to relieve the pain?

What are the causes of lower back pain during menstruation?

1. Pelvic inflammatory disease

Lower back pain during menstruation may be caused by menstrual fever, and lower abdominal pain may be caused by pelvic inflammatory disease.

2. Retroverted uterus

Lower back pain during menstruation may be caused by a retroverted uterus or other diseases. Therefore, if women have this symptom, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination in time.

3. Endometritis

Normal menstrual blood is dark red. If the color of menstrual blood is light brown, or the odor changes, and the body temperature rises and lower abdominal pain occurs, you may have endometritis.

4. Endometriosis

If dysmenorrhea becomes more severe and lasts longer, you may be suffering from endometriosis, so women must pay great attention to it.

5. Chronic cervicitis

Patients will have symptoms such as increased vaginal discharge, lumbar pain, pelvic pain, etc., and the pain will worsen during menstruation, bowel movements or sexual intercourse.

How to relieve lower back pain during menstruation?

1. Since the onset of menstruation, you should learn and understand some health knowledge, have a correct understanding of menstruation as a normal physiological phenomenon, eliminate fear and tension, which can prevent the occurrence of primary dysmenorrhea or increase the pain threshold to reduce the degree of pain. Pay attention to menstrual and sexual hygiene, prevent ascending infection during menstruation and childbirth, and actively prevent and treat diseases that may cause menstrual blood retention.

2. During menstruation, you should keep warm, avoid cold, cool, raw, and cold stimulation to prevent the invasion of cold evil; pay attention to rest, reduce fatigue, strengthen nutrition, and enhance physical fitness; you should try to control drastic emotional fluctuations, avoid strong mental stimulation, and keep a happy mood; you should avoid excessive sexual intercourse at ordinary times, and sexual life is absolutely prohibited during menstruation.

3. Pay attention to diet regulation during menstruation. Avoid eating raw, cold and cool foods before and during menstruation to avoid cold stagnation and blood stasis which may aggravate dysmenorrhea. Those with heavy menstrual flow should not eat spicy and dry foods to avoid heat forcing blood circulation and causing more severe bleeding. Also, be careful not to abuse medication and treat the disease based on the cause of the dysmenorrhea.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning is the main method. In the treatment of irregular menstruation, it is necessary to make dialectical treatment according to each person's physical condition, and regulate the functions of female organs by regulating qi and blood, resolving blood stasis and dispersing nodules, and replenishing Chong and Ren, so as to adjust the endocrine balance.