Can I take a shower and wash my hair during menstruation?

Many friends have heard that you cannot wash your hair during menstruation. Is this really true? It is best not to wash your hair on the first day of menstruation. Friends who want to wash their hair can wait two or three days before washing it, because when menstruation just comes, the body's immune ability is at its lowest, and if you wash your hair, you will be easily infected by colds.

1. The scientific advice is that it is best not to wash your hair on the first day of your period. If you really have to wash your hair, do it after the second day of your period. And be sure to blow it dry with hot air, and never let it catch cold. Women are more vulnerable during menstruation, so the most important thing at this time is to keep warm and avoid catching cold. Try to use warm water to wash your hands and face, even in summer. It is okay to wash your hair.

2. However, it is best not to wash your hair on the first day of your period, because washing your hair will have a strong irritation to the scalp. If you wash your hair at this time, even if you use hot water, our head cannot be guaranteed to be in water all the time. At this time, wind will invade, which will have a strong stimulation to the nerves of the scalp and indirectly stimulate the uterus, which will cause severe uterine contractions. If this continues for a long time, it will cause dysmenorrhea and blood clots in menstruation. In addition, the impact of washing your hair at this time on women is not as simple as dysmenorrhea.

3. Washing your hair during menstruation can easily cause migraines, that is, some women will experience dizziness and headaches when their menstrual period comes. In fact, it is directly affected by the cold head during menstruation, and washing hair during menstruation is most likely to cause uterine cold. We know that uterine cold not only causes dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation, but more importantly, it may cause premature amenorrhea, which will bring the risk of infertility to women of childbearing age. Once women have amenorrhea, they will no longer ovulate, and the secretion of estrogen in the body will also drop sharply, causing premature aging, and the skin is also prone to skin diseases such as chloasma.

4. The most important reason why you can’t wash your hair during menstruation is that the blood in the female body is in a boiling period, and the body temperature will be higher than usual. If you wash your hair at this time, it is very easy to catch a cold and it will also cause other gynecological diseases. Therefore, it is best not to wash your hair.