What is endometrial shedding?

Don't be nervous if you find endometrial shedding during your period, as this is a normal physiological phenomenon. Anyone with common knowledge of physical health knows that menstruation is a process of endometrial shedding. The endometrium grows during each menstrual cycle. During ovulation, if the egg falls on the endometrial wall without being fertilized, it will cause the endometrium to shed. It is normal for endometrial shedding to occur.

Regular shedding of the endometrium is accompanied by menstruation, and the endometrium is shed during menstruation due to lack of support from estrogen and progesterone. The endometrium continues to be affected by progesterone and cannot be shed completely as expected. On the 3rd to 4th day of a normal menstrual period, the secretory endometrium has completely shed and is replaced by regenerated proliferative endometrium.

However, when the endometrium is shed irregularly, due to the patient's longer menstrual period, the endometrium loses water, the stroma becomes dense, the glands shrink, and the glandular cavity becomes plum blossom or star-shaped. The endometrium showed a mixed type, that is, the residual secretory endometrium coexisted with hemorrhagic necrotic tissue and newly grown endometrium. We should pay attention to our diet and daily life, pay attention to physical hygiene, and also balance our emotions and pay attention to mental hygiene.

If the incomplete detachment of the endometrium is due to the dysfunction of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis regulation causing incomplete luteal atrophy and other reasons, Chinese medicine believes that it is a stagnation of qi and blood and it is recommended to take the secretions to the hospital for pathological examination.

In clinical practice, we will encounter many cases of abnormal endometrial shedding. We should go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment in time to find out the real cause of the disease and treat it symptomatically to effectively avoid the development of the disease. This is of great significance to the health of women. Never ignore the health of women. Minor illnesses that are not treated in time may develop into life-threatening conditions.