the milk hormone
Milk hormone or hormone prolactin, is one of the hormones produced by the pituitary gland in the frontal lobe, and this hormone is also produced by the glands of the breasts, but very few percentages, and this hormone in the body of the woman is different, and the reason for these different ratios of the nature of conditions experienced by women, Or aging, and this hormone many functions in the body of women, and the rise of this hormone in the body causes many problems, most notably infertility, or delayed reproduction.
Time to analyze milk hormone and its ratio
The time to measure the milk hormone is the second day or the third day of the menstrual cycle naturally and well. It is done by drawing a sample of the patient’s blood and subjecting the blood sample to a group of tests. The analysis is the analysis of the hormone testosterone, the hormone TSH, Thyroid, as well as FSH analysis.
And the lady must adhere to a set of rules before going for a milk hormone analysis, the rules are:
- Refrain from taking certain medical drugs, which greatly affect the level of milk hormone in the body, and these valleys medicines for the treatment of epilepsy and blood pressure, as well as treated wadis for depression, as well as medical drugs in the prevention of pregnancy.
- Do not eat food and drink before the examination with sufficient hours, which is better to test the hormone milk and stomach completely free of food.
- Avoid extreme self and body stress.
- Refrain from sexual contact with the husband before the examination for at least three days, as well as avoid stimulating the nipple.
- Take a full rest before starting the half-hour analysis.
Normal levels of milk hormone
- The rate of this hormone in non-pregnant women is less than twenty ng.
- In pregnant women it ranges from ten to three hundred nano-grams.
- While the proportion of this hormone in men less than fifteen nanograms.
Function of milk hormone
- The glands responsible for milk production in the breasts stimulate breast milk production during breast-feeding. It also causes swelling of the breast glands during pregnancy to prepare for milk production. This explains the increased size of the breasts during pregnancy. It should be noted that during pregnancy Placenta secrete progesterone, the hormone responsible for preventing milk formation in the breasts, and after birth the placenta stops the secretion of this hormone, and thus begins the secretion of milk.
- Greatly affects the orgasm that occurs when the couple having sexual intercourse between them, so the high hormone milk they have, they lose orgasm.
- Contributes to lowering the level of testosterone in men, estrogen and hormone in women.