Menstrual health tips content

There is only one core rule for all menstrual health—— Use your own actual body sensation as the first criterion. There are no taboos that apply to everyone. As long as it complies with evidence-based medicine and there is no discomfort after the procedure, there is no need to be kidnapped by various online rules.。

I have been working as a nurse in a gynecological clinic for almost 6 years, and I have seen too many girls who are bound by various taboos. They dare not touch a sip of iced drinks on a 38-degree day in the summer. Their hair is so oily that it is frizzy and they dare not wash it, for fear of contracting "confinement disease" or "menstrual disease". It is really unnecessary.

Take the most controversial question "Can you eat ice during menstruation?". Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that cold food will cause qi and blood stasis, aggravating the symptoms of uterine cold and dysmenorrhea. People who usually have cold hands and feet and are prone to diarrhea and pain during menstruation must pay attention.； However, there is currently no evidence-based evidence from Western medicine that proves that eating ice directly causes dysmenorrhea. Some girls who are irritable during menstruation may even relieve their anxiety by taking a few bites of ice cream. My colleague is a nurse in the gynecology department, and there is nothing wrong with chewing popsicles every day during her menstrual period. Another little girl in the same clinic drank half a cup of iced milk tea last summer and was so painful that she broke into a cold sweat on the waiting chair. To put it bluntly, it is all individual differences. There is no right or wrong. Your body's reaction is the only criterion.

Speaking of which, by the way, I would like to mention the question that everyone asks a lot about whether exercise can be done during menstruation. There are really no two extremes: lying down and not moving or running 800 meters with force. If the pain is so painful that you can’t straighten your back or stand, then just lie down and no one will say you are lazy. ； If you only have mild abdominal distension and backache, go downstairs and take a 20-minute walk, or follow the blogger and do cat pose for 5 minutes, which can promote pelvic blood circulation and relieve the soreness. On the third day of my last menstrual period, my waist was swollen uncomfortably. I tried doing a few sets of relaxation exercises, and I felt much better that night. Of course, if you insist on challenging high-intensity exercises such as heavy squats and 100-meter sprints, you are just asking for your own trouble, and there is no need.

Oh, by the way, there are also various "lists of foods that cannot be eaten during menstruation" that are circulated on the Internet, such as mango to stop bleeding, coffee to aggravate dysmenorrhea, and eating spicy food to cause overeating, so don't blindly believe them. The tranexamic acid content in mango is so low that it can be ignored. Even if you eat ten kilograms, it will not reach the dose that affects menstrual flow. I took two kilograms of Tainong during my period last month, and there was no change at all in my menstrual flow cycle. ； The same goes for coffee. If you drink it every day, there will be no problem if you drink one cup during menstruation. If you have menstrual headaches, just drink less. ； The same goes for chili peppers. Girls in Sichuan and Chongqing eat spicy food all the time, but not everyone suffers from dysmenorrhea. There is also the much-hyped brown sugar ginger tea, 90% of which is sucrose. To put it bluntly, it is a sugar supplement. If you feel comfortable drinking it, then drink it. If you are afraid of gaining weight, drink warm boiled water or warm lemon water, which is not bad at all.

As for the question of whether you can wash your hair or take a bath, I really don’t want to explain it anymore. As long as you wash it with warm water and dry it immediately after washing without blowing cold air, it’s absolutely fine. The older generation said that washing your hair during menstruation will cause headaches. Most of them are caused by poor conditions in the past and no place to dry your hair after washing, so it freezes. Of course, if you have severe migraine headaches during your menstrual period, no one will stop you from washing during the first two days when you avoid washing the most.

There is also a more private question, can we have sex during menstruation? At present, the views of different medical schools are indeed different: Western medicine believes that as long as both parties are well cleaned, there is no inflammation of the reproductive system, and there is no obvious discomfort, it is not completely impossible. ； However, traditional Chinese medicine generally does not recommend it. They believe that the cervix opens during menstruation, and bacteria can easily be introduced into the sexual intercourse to induce inflammation. It can also aggravate pelvic congestion and lead to dysmenorrhea. My personal suggestion is that it really doesn’t take more than a few days. If you really can’t bear it, take safety measures throughout the whole process. If you feel uncomfortable, just stop immediately. There is no need to have any moral burden, and don’t bear the discomfort to cater to the other party.

Oh, and stop treating painkillers like a scourge. Taking a regular dose of ibuprofen for 2-3 days a month will not produce the so-called dependence at all, nor will it harm the body. On the contrary, enduring dysmenorrhea for a long time may induce neurological headaches, menstrual disorders and other problems. Of course, if you have peptic ulcers or are allergic to ibuprofen, don't use it, and just use other pain relief methods that suit you. If you still feel so much pain after taking painkillers, don't bear it, and go to the hospital to check whether you have endometriosis, adenomyosis or other problems.

Many girls will be inexplicably irritable before menstruation. They may not like what they see. They may even quarrel with the people around them. Don’t call yourself pretentious. This is what is often called premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in medicine. It is a normal physiological reaction caused by hormone fluctuations. Just curse a few words when you feel unhappy, eat something sweet if you want, don't hold it in, and when your mood becomes smoother, many uncomfortable symptoms will disappear on their own. I used to tell my partner that if I get embarrassed for no reason in the week before my period, don’t get angry with me. I will apologize to you when this period is over. Now the two of us get along with each other without a lot of conflicts.

In fact, after all, there are so many rules that need to be adhered to during menstruation. Your own body will never lie to you. Just do it if you feel comfortable and stop if you feel uncomfortable. It will be more effective than a hundred tips you have read. Of course, if you experience a sudden sudden increase/decrease in menstrual flow, cycle fluctuations of more than 10 days, non-menstrual bleeding, or pain that is so painful that painkillers are useless, don’t trust any folk health supplements. See a gynecologist in a regular hospital as it is more reliable than anything else.