PMS
God created the female and created them to do many functions and great to maintain the survival of the human race and reproduction; it is carrying, giving birth and raising children and care alongside the man’s companion, and to enable women in this role suffer from several troubles that may affect her body and psychology. Among the most important problems affecting women menstrual cycle, which is a major requirement for the descent of the egg into the uterus, in preparation for vaccination by sperm to begin a new life different.
What is the menstrual cycle?
The menstrual cycle or period of menstruation is a set of changes that affect the lining of the uterus, separated and fragmented and descending to the cervix to get out of the body, and repeated this process once a month, and for this reason called the month. The cycle affects several organs, the most important of which is the pituitary gland responsible for regulating hormones and their secretion rate, ovaries that preserve the eggs, and the psychological state that strongly affects the difficulty or ease of the cycle.
The date of the menstrual cycle
The menstrual period lasts for 28 days, may last for some women to 33 days or is reduced to 26 days, and the first day of the cycle is calculated from the first day of menstruation. Days from 1-13 in the first day of the cycle, in which the blood is free of sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone), then the pituitary gland in the brain secretes the hormone stimulating the growth of the ovarian follicle that produces estrogen, and high levels of estrogen stimulate the growth of the lining of the uterus to be ready To receive the fertilized egg in case of pregnancy. In the middle of the menstrual cycle, the level of estrogen rises to its highest level. This leads to the production of more active hormone for the ovarian follicles at high rates and is accompanied by a hormone activates the yellow body that explodes the egg to get out of the ovary. Days 15-28 The egg moves inside the fallopian tube towards the uterus, which secrete the hormone progesterone in the second half of the cycle. During the three days before menstruation, the yellow body shrinks and dies and the progesterone decreases.
Symptoms of menstrual cycle
There are many symptoms that affect women before the menstrual cycle, the most important of which are:
- Depression, crying, anxiety, nervousness, and general bad mood, which explains the cause of excessive secretion of hormones.
- Headaches, fatigue, loss of concentration and decision-making, tendency to isolation, loneliness and depression.
- The sensation of pain and swelling in the lower abdomen and pelvis, and begins since the descent of menstrual blood and may last for between eight hours to seventy-two hours.
- Acute pain in the breast, a pain that does not last but is annoying and not serious, and because of the high proportion of progesterone in the blood, and with the end of the menstrual period find that the symptoms have disappeared and returned the breasts to normal size.
- Weight gain, due to strong appetite, appetite and appetite to eat, especially rich in sugars such as chocolate, and the tendency to eat fatty foods.
- Change sleep habits ranging from insomnia because of the contention of melancholy thoughts, and the desire to sleep for a longer period than usual due to the bad psychological state and the tendency to unity.
- Skin problems, such as the appearance of grain on the face, or general dryness of the skin.
- The occurrence of pain in the joints and muscles, and general weakness in the body.
- Decreased interest in daily activities such as: work, study, communicate with friends and practice hobbies.
- Feelings of anger and emotion, and increased incidence of problems with other people during the period of the menstrual cycle.
- The sense of fluid accumulation in the body and swelling and swelling; the optimal proportion of hormones in this period, increasing the proportion of estrogen, which works to store the salts and fluids, and thus the feeling of swelling of the feet and abdomen and breasts.
Reduce the symptoms of the cycle
There are some people who believe that the symptoms of PMS can be alleviated and their impact on women by following some of the following health guidelines:
- The right nutrition is rich in vitamins, calcium, magnesium, and iron; it compensates the body with the basic minerals the body loses with menstrual blood.
- The resort to hot drinks, the cinnamon works to clean the uterus of blood and prevent clotting, peppermint calms muscles, in addition to ginger and marjoram.
- Take painkillers if the pain is severe.
- Keep the body warm and avoid cold, it increases the symptoms of the cycle.
Delayed session
The course is delayed due to many reasons that differ according to the different body and the woman’s psychology. Among these reasons:
- Nutrition disorders : Especially in the cases of dieting cruel by some women to lose weight; Valdjim depends on the reduction of fat from meals, and fat is the hormone that helps estrogen in the work, and thus adversely affect the menstrual cycle.
- overweight : The lack of fat affect the cycle, the increase in fat accumulated in the body hampers the work of sex hormones and thus delay in ovulation and the date of the menstrual cycle.
- Stress : The changes that occur before and during the course are not simple, so it is usually advised to stay away from exhaustion of the body before and during the session. Stress associated with stress helps to secrete the hormone GnRH, which causes no ovulation or delayed menstruation from one day to several days.
- Diseases : Some diseases impede the process of ovulation, the egg reaches the uterus late, and thus show symptoms of menstrual accompanied with late menstrual blood, knowing that this condition is temporary disappearance of the disease.
Interruption of the session
The reasons for the interruption of the course are divided into two types:
- Physiological reasons : The natural conditions experienced by the body of women, whether they are pregnant, or reaching the age of despair, which is the activity of the ovaries, the cycle is naturally interrupted.
- Causes satisfactory : There are many reasons here, most notably:
- Some diseases: anemia, malnutrition and obesity.
- Hormonal drug abuse, especially delayed pregnancy pills.
- A dysfunction of the pituitary gland that controls the secretion of sex hormones, which naturally affect the cycle, as any imbalance in the activity of both thyroid or adrenal (suprarenal) and ovaries naturally affects the proportion of hormones in the body.
- Pregnancy is false, and the body prepares for pregnancy as a result of the desire of the woman is severe in pregnancy, the pregnancy symptoms go without him, and the interruption of the cycle is the first signs of pregnancy.
- In utero disorders of congenital malformations or small in size.
- Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding and menstrual cycle do not come together.
- Violent sports practices damage the muscles of the body, including the muscles of the uterus.
- The ovarian cysts, which contain the pus caused by inflammation, are formed on the ovary or in the fallopian tube or even in the uterus, and are accompanied by high temperature and lower abdominal pain.
Abstract
- The menstrual cycle occurs in females, the purpose of which is the descent of the egg into the womb of the female in preparation for vaccination by a sperm of the genus of the male; for the occurrence of pregnancy and fetus, and then the birth of children and reproduce them in life.
- There are many symptoms that occur in women before and during the period of the menstrual cycle, including: Depression, tendency to loneliness, nervousness, and feeling sometimes swelling of the abdomen and pelvis, and this at the beginning of menstrual bleeding, which ranges from 8 hours to about 72 Hour, and the female may experience severe breast pain.
- The causes of some symptoms during the menstrual cycle are not explained.