What's wrong with brown vaginal discharge? This is what caused it.

Leucorrhea is a normal secretion of women. Unlike menstruation, leucorrhea occurs every day except during menstruation. Sometimes the amount of leucorrhea is more and sometimes less during a monthly cycle. Occasionally, there will be some abnormal changes, such as changes in the color of leucorrhea. Normal leucorrhea is colorless. When leucorrhea appears brown, it may indicate illness or it is a normal phenomenon during ovulation. Let's learn more about why leucorrhea is brown?

1. Physiological brown vaginal discharge: Physiological brown vaginal discharge often occurs before and after women's menstruation and during ovulation. It is a normal physiological symptom and a manifestation of female ovulation bleeding. When the ovulation period ends, the color of leucorrhea will return to normal white.

2. Pathological brown leucorrhea: Pathological brown leucorrhea refers to irregular vaginal bleeding in women, and brown leucorrhea may have two reasons:

(1) Caused by IUD insertion: It may be a symptom of discomfort after the IUD is inserted. If the discomfort is obvious, you should go to the hospital for examination to see if the IUD is placed normally;

(2) Caused by disease: Most cases of brown vaginal discharge are caused by cervical diseases, which may be a precursor to severe cervical erosion, cervical polyps, or even malignant tumors such as cervical cancer. In order to rule out this pathological brown vaginal discharge, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination and symptomatic treatment in time.

How to prevent brown discharge?

1. Hygiene and cleaning before and after menstruation: Pay attention to cleaning the vagina during menstruation to prevent infection with bacteria. Regardless of whether your menstrual flow is heavy or light, you must choose a sanitary napkin that is breathable and relatively "thin".

2. Live a regular life and avoid overwork: staying up late, overwork, and irregular life can lead to irregular menstruation and may also affect leucorrhea. Maintain a regular lifestyle and rest habits, and leucorrhea and menstruation will gradually return to normal.

3. Appropriate exercise: Do more pelvic exercises and lower abdominal exercises to effectively improve the blood circulation of the uterus. It is very helpful for women to have a smooth menstrual period, dysmenorrhea or normal ovulation, and effectively prevent the occurrence of brown vaginal discharge symptoms.

4. Pay attention to your diet: Eat more iron-containing and nutritious foods. Women who have brown vaginal discharge after menstruation should supplement with enough iron to avoid iron deficiency anemia. Eat less spicy, greasy and cold foods, and eat more foods that nourish the spleen and kidneys and clear away heat and dampness, such as lotus seeds, jujubes, yam, coix seeds, winter melon seeds, etc. Try to eat less cold foods, such as pears, water chestnuts, persimmons, snails, etc.

5. Avoid catching cold: You must keep warm, especially before and after menstruation, because the cold can easily penetrate the body at this time. When you have abdominal pain, you can use a hot water bottle to relieve the pain.