Menstrual irregularities are often caused by poor lifestyle habits and are not necessarily due to gynecological diseases.
Excessive or scanty menstruation, abnormal color of menstrual blood, abdominal pain... in a woman's lifetime, many people have experienced menstrual irregularities. When menstrual irregularities occur, most people go to the hospital to find causes such as pelvic inflammatory disease or uterine fibroids. In fact, many menstrual irregularities are not caused by diseases, but by poor lifestyle habits. Chen Yanhui, Deputy Chief Physician of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, pointed out that long-term bad mood, high stress levels, overeating or starvation, picky eating, and consuming food that is too hot or too cold can all be triggers for menstrual irregularities. [China Food] Beauty's pursuit of beauty may lead to menstrual disorders
Although it is winter, many girls still dress lightly, pursuing "style over warmth" for the sake of beauty. In addition, some urban girls eat ice cream even on cold winter days. It feels refreshing at the time, but slowly they find that their menstruation no longer comes on time, sometimes once every one or two months, with much less volume than before, and accompanied by severe dysmenorrhea, which can even lead to vomiting when the pain is severe. In fact, when a woman is exposed to cold during her menstrual period, the blood vessels in the pelvis constrict, leading to ovarian dysfunction, which can cause a decrease in menstrual flow or even amenorrhea.
Experts remind that during the menstrual period, one should guard against cold and dampness, avoid getting caught in the rain, wading in water, swimming, drinking cold drinks, etc., and especially prevent the lower body from getting cold, and pay attention to keeping warm. It may be helpful to add foods such as green onions, beans, pumpkins, garlic, ginger, chestnuts, and oranges to the diet; in addition, seasonings such as vinegar, sauce, vegetable oil, chili, and pepper, as well as stewed beef and chicken broth, can also have a certain effect on menstrual irregularities caused by this condition. Poor dietary habits can easily lead to menstrual irregularities
Chen Yanhui said that there are many women who go to the hospital due to menstrual irregularities, especially white-collar women. Experts point out that the reason they are prone to menstrual irregularities is mainly related to their lifestyle habits. White-collar workers are under great work pressure, overthink, have children later and later, don't have time to eat properly, blindly diet to lose weight, and dress for style over warmth for the sake of beauty. These are the main culprits of menstrual irregularities.
Diet is the source of human nutrition and the material basis for generating qi and blood. If one eats too much or too little, is picky about food, or consumes food that is too hot or too cold, it can lead to illness. Excessive consumption of pungent and yang-tonifying foods can lead to heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach, disturbing the Chong and Ren meridians, causing unrest in the blood sea, leading to excessive menstruation, metrorrhagia, red leucorrhea, threatened miscarriage, and fetal restlessness; excessive consumption of raw, cold, and cool foods during the menstrual period or pregnancy can damage the spleen's yang, causing cold congealment in the blood vessels, leading to dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, scanty menstruation, delayed menstruation, fetal restlessness, and leucorrhea diseases; excessive consumption of rich and sweet foods, or excessive drinking, can lead to internal generation of dampness-heat and phlegm-turbidity, causing leucorrhea diseases, yin sores, and infertility; eating too little or dieting to lose weight can lead to a lack of source for the production of qi and blood, deficiency in the Chong and Ren meridians, leading to scanty menstruation, delayed menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum lactation deficiency, fetal atrophy, and fetal restlessness. Introverted and solitary women are prone to amenorrhea
Women of childbearing age, if under long-term stress, excessive fear or sadness, sudden changes in living environment, a strong desire for pregnancy, or intense mental struggle, can affect the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis, causing the ovaries to stop secreting female hormones and ovulate, leading to menstrual disorders. Research has found that women with anxious, introverted, solitary, and overthinking personalities and incomplete ovarian function are prone to amenorrhea under adverse psychological stimulation.
According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, joy, anger, worry, pensiveness, sadness, fear, and surprise are the human body's emotional responses to external stimuli and the emotional manifestations of the functional activities of the internal organs. The seven emotions are beneficial to health when properly expressed, but if they are excessive, such as sudden, intense, or prolonged mental stimulation that exceeds the physiological regulation limit, it will cause dysfunction of the internal organs, qi and blood, and meridians, leading to gynecological diseases. For example, depression and anger can injure the liver, leading to early menstruation, excessive menstruation, and dysmenorrhea; excessive pensiveness can injure the spleen, leading to metrorrhagia and amenorrhea; and fright and fear can injure the kidneys, leading to excessive menstruation, metrorrhagia, and fetal restlessness.