What causes women's menstrual period to be too long?

In real life, many female friends have this problem, irregular menstruation, and many people have irregular menstruation. It comes this month, but I don’t know when it will come next month. Sometimes it catches people off guard. What’s the matter with this long menstrual period? Below, I will introduce it to you in detail.

The normal menstrual period lasts for 2 to 7 days, and in some cases it lasts for 3 to 5 days. If your period lasts longer than 7 days, it is considered a prolonged period. Prolonged menstruation should be taken seriously and the cause should be investigated in depth. It is usually related to the following diseases:

(1) Blood diseases such as thrombocytopenic purpura and aplastic anemia are often accompanied by menstruation. If severe uterine bleeding occurs, the menstrual period will be prolonged. Other conditions such as chronic anemia, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, nephritis, etc. can make the blood vessel walls fragile, increase permeability and cause bleeding.

(2) Pelvic inflammation, intrauterine polyps, endometritis, etc. are all caused by poor intrauterine blood circulation, degeneration and necrosis, or pelvic congestion, which lead to menorrhagia and prolonged menstruation.

(3) Chronic uterine hypertrophy (myometritis) is caused by pelvic congestion and continuous increase in ovarian estrogen, which causes thickening of the uterine muscle layer, resulting in excessive menstruation and prolonged menstruation.

(4) Uterine fibroids, especially submucosal uterine fibroids, can cause the uterine cavity to expand in size, leading to abnormal contraction and menorrhagia and prolonged menstruation.

(5) Dysfunctional uterine bleeding, such as anovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding and irregular endometrial shedding, are both caused by endocrine dysfunction and lead to prolonged menstruation.

(6) Endometriosis often causes menorrhagia or prolonged menstruation due to affecting the contraction of the uterine muscle layer or due to endometrial enhancement.

(7) Insertion of an IUD can also cause prolonged menstruation. Therefore, prolonged menstruation is caused by systemic diseases as well as many gynecological diseases, which should be differentiated and identified, and then treated separately.

Prolonged menstruation means there is something wrong with your body. Some are due to diet and some are due to problems inside the body. It must be taken seriously. After reading this, female friends who have this problem will have a general understanding of their bodies. Then, after understanding it, they must prescribe the right medicine to help their bodies return to normal as soon as possible.