In the category Women's Health: Causes of headache
First of all, let's find out what causes pain during menstruation. As you know, every month inside your body matures the egg. If conception has not occurred, she dies, the body tends to get rid of the decay products: displays of unnecessary uterine tissue and fluid. For better waste body produces a special substance - prostaglandin that stimulates muscle contraction. If this substance is produced too much, there are painful spasms, and that you feel during the critical days. This, of course, not the only reason, but one of the most common.
Also pain during menstruation can occur for purely psychological reasons. For example, if you are a child watching such things from his mother and sisters, and were convinced that the painful menstruation - is the norm.
In any case, in order to relieve the pain, doctors advise a few simple techniques. For example, during menstruation you should make some adjustments in diet. Disclaimer of salty, fried, spicy and sweet can significantly improve your health. Simultaneously add the complex of vitamins and minerals. Observed that women taking during the critical days complex with calcium, magnesium and sodium pain during menstruation were much easier.
It is also worth to give up coffee and alcohol. Caffeine will make you more excitable, it would reinforce the spasms, and alcohol cause fluid retention.
Another good way - it's warm. It helps to relax muscles and reduce spasms during painful menstruation. If your state allows you to move, go for a walk and follow a simple set of physical exercises. Physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins, which in turn reduces the pain.
Many women also noted a reduction or even cessation of pain to start taking contraceptive hormonal methods. The fact that the substance contained in these preparations inhibit the production of prostaglandin, which is due to occur, and pain during menstruation. But do not make this decision alone - only a doctor can decide whether you fit this treatment and what medication is best taken.
Recipes of traditional medicine for pain during menstruation
1. Take two tablespoons celery seed and fill it with two hundred milliliters of boiling water. Let sit for 40 minutes. Take the infusion of two tablespoons three times a day.
2. Three tablespoons of red clover flowers pour a glass of boiling water and allow to cool brew. Then infusion of strain, squeeze raw materials and take 2 tablespoons three times a day.
3. 200 ml of water, take 20 grams goose cinquefoil. The mixture simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. After cooling, strain and press materials. Take half a cup to 5 times a day before meals.
If pain during menstruation accompanied by other unpleasant symptoms, such as vomiting, fainting, profuse and prolonged bleeding cycle disorders or can not be removed by any pain medications, be sure to consult a gynecologist. The cause of such pain can be serious diseases that can be treated only by a doctor.
For example, pain during menstruation may be a symptom of endometriosis - a very unpleasant disease, the treatment of which is better to start as early as possible. Pain may also be due to the inability of the free exit of fluid from the uterus. This can happen if there are tumors like fibrolm, papillomas and other, diagnosis and treatment which is also largely by envy of the treatment to the gynecologist.
The reason may be the simplest. For example, the fluid can not go out because of too narrow opening of the cervix. Deal with this problem is not difficult, but it can do, again, only a specialist.
Alexander Panyutin
Women's magazine JustLady