A woman's vagina has less secretions, which can affect her fertility

Menstruation is an experience that healthy women have every month. However, when women have their periods, the amount of menstrual flow can be more or less. So, is it normal to have a small amount of menstrual flow? What is the cause? Let’s learn more about it.

Four reasons why women have less menstrual flow

1. Ovarian dysfunction

As women age, their ovarian function declines, which directly leads to a decrease in menstrual volume. This is a normal physiological phenomenon.

2. Uterine hypoplasia

Menstruation is essentially the shedding of the endometrium, which causes bleeding and changes with the ovarian cycle. If the uterus is underdeveloped, that is, the uterus is still smaller than normal after puberty, then the small uterus will inevitably lead to less endometrial shedding, and the direct manifestation is less menstrual volume. Secondly, damage to the endometrium caused by endometrial lesions, artificial abortion, curettage, etc. can also lead to a decrease in menstrual volume.

3. Endocrine disorders

The most common cause of scanty menstruation is endocrine disorders, which is caused by low estrogen secretion levels in the body. Low estrogen levels make it difficult for women's endometrium to proliferate. The weak endometrium will inevitably fail to produce the amount required for normal menstruation, resulting in less menstrual flow. There are many reasons that lead to hormone secretion, such as excessive dieting in obese people, irregular lifestyles of workaholics, and related reproductive system diseases. In this case, you can go to the hospital for an endocrine hormone test to rule out other possible diseases.

4. Changes in the spiritual environment

Sudden or long-term mental states such as high mental tension and increased stress may also lead to estrogen secretion disorders in women, manifested as low menstrual volume. Women should combine work and rest, relax and maintain a healthy mentality.

Small menstrual flow is an unhealthy sign and is harmful to the body. So will scanty menstruation affect pregnancy? Come and find out.

Does scanty menstruation affect pregnancy?

Whether a woman is fertile or not depends mainly on whether she has a complete neuroendocrine system and healthy reproductive organs, especially whether her ovaries develop normally. The amount of menstruation not only depends on the above-mentioned physiological basis, but is also closely related to many factors such as psychology, external environment, and living habits. Can scanty menstruation lead to infertility? In fact, it depends on whether you really have a small amount of menstrual flow, and then it depends on what causes the small amount of menstrual flow. Let’s analyze several situations below and take a look.

1. The menstrual volume is small, but the ovarian function is normal and does not affect pregnancy. The normal range of a woman's menstrual volume is relatively large, approximately between 80 and 100 ml. Some women have less menstrual flow, which is within the normal range, but their ovarian ovulation function and female hormone secretion function are both within the normal range. Therefore, these women are still fertile.

2. If the menstrual volume is small and is not caused by the reproductive system or endocrine system, there is a certain probability of fertility. If a woman's menstrual flow is too small, it may be due to systemic wasting diseases such as tuberculosis, malnutrition, anemia, or mental factors such as tension, depression, fear, fatigue, environmental changes, etc. A certain proportion of women whose menstrual flow is too small due to these factors can still have children.

3. Small menstrual volume caused by endocrine and other factors may affect pregnancy. If the menstrual flow is too small or even amenorrhea is caused by diseases such as endocrine dysfunction, tumors, and uterine hypoplasia, the chance of infertility will greatly increase. However, if it is only a temporary endocrine disorder, such as emotional tension, environmental changes, increased psychological pressure, or sudden stimulation, as long as the above temporary factors disappear, menstruation can return to normal. Therefore, this situation does not affect pregnancy.

4. Low estrogen levels in the body can cause the endometrium to not grow thick enough and result in less bleeding during menstruation, which can affect conception. However, for girls who have just started their menarche, the secretion of estrogen in their bodies has not yet reached a balanced and stable state, so the amount of menstrual blood is generally not much. This is normal and will not affect conception.

5. Malnutrition may cause too little menstrual blood flow or even amenorrhea, which may affect pregnancy. This situation not only causes poor development of the reproductive system such as the uterus, laying the hidden danger of future infertility, but also causes a decline in the body's immune function, creating conditions for the invasion of diseases.

Therefore, when the menstrual volume becomes less and the menstrual cycle becomes longer, do not be complacent, because this may be a sign of disease, so you must pay attention.