The dangers of high prolactin and the complications it causes

Hyperprolactinemia can cause symptoms such as amenorrhea, anovulation, and infertility. If not treated, it can cause many complications, such as vision damage, diabetes, obesity, and decreased libido. Patients should pay attention to dietary health and eat more hawthorn malt tea.

1. Complications

(1) Low estrogen response: seen in people with long-term amenorrhea, such as hot flashes, palpitations, spontaneous sweating, vaginal dryness, dyspareunia, decreased libido, etc.

(2) Changes in vision and visual field: When pituitary tumors involve the optic chiasm, vision loss, headache, dizziness, hemianopsia and blindness may occur, as well as functional impairment of cranial nerves II, III, and IV, fundus edema, and exudation.

(3) Hyperandrogenism: moderate obesity, seborrheic dermatitis, acne and hirsutism.

(4) Acromegaly: seen in PRL-GH adenoma, with elevated GH.

(5) Myxedema: seen in combination with hypothyroidism.

(6) Diabetes and abnormal glucose tolerance test.

2. Diet and Health Care

Hawthorn malt tea: 50 grams of raw hawthorn, 30 grams of roasted malt; or 60 grams of roasted malt alone. Boil all ingredients in water and drink as tea, 1 dose per day. Function of milk recovery. It is mainly used to treat various galactorrhea, including hyperprolactinemia, postpartum milk regurgitation, and milk regurgitation after abortion.

Turtle shell nourishing kidney soup: Put 1 turtle (more than 300 grams) into a boiling water pot and scald it to death. After taking it out, remove the head, claws, turtle shell, and internal organs, and cut into small pieces. Put the turtle pieces back into the pot, add 30 grams of wolfberry, 15 grams of cooked rehmannia, add 600 ml of water, and simmer until cooked. Take once a day. Function: nourishes liver, kidney and yin. It is mainly used to treat hyperprolactinemia of liver-kidney yin deficiency type; symptoms include heavy menstruation, or continuous vaginal bleeding, soreness of waist and knees, irritability, insomnia, thick milk discharge, or afternoon hot flashes and hot palms and soles.

Black chicken soup: Cut 500 grams of male black chicken into pieces, put into the pot with 3 grams each of dried tangerine peel and galangal, 6 grams of pepper, and 2 apples, add appropriate amounts of onion, vinegar, and sauce, and add water to cover the chicken and stew until cooked. Take with soup, 1 to 2 times a day. Function: replenishes qi and blood. It is mainly used to treat hyperprolactinemia of Qi and blood deficiency type; symptoms include scanty or absent menstruation, infertility, thin and light milk discharge, sallow complexion, weak speech, fatigue and less movement.

Decoction of Motherwort and Black Beans: Add 30g of Motherwort and 60g of Black Beans into 500ml of water, decoct together to extract juice, then add brown sugar and rice wine. It can promote qi and blood circulation. It is mainly used to treat hyperprolactinemia of qi stagnation and blood stasis type; symptoms include menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, infertility, galactorrhea, chest and flank pain, irritability, and premenstrual breast or lower abdominal pain that refuses to be pressed.