Early menopause can occur for various reasons, which lead to the depletion or complete cessation of ovarian function. Menopause is called early when it comes to 45 years. In the case where premature menopause occurs when no active influence on the ovaries in the form of their partial or complete removal, irradiation of radiation or chemotherapy, and in itself, indicate premature depletion of ovarian function. Such a state can begin well before 45 years old, still in his early youth.
Causes
It begins with the fact that menstruation is becoming increasingly scarce and rare
. This period lasts about a year, and then comes the last menstrual period
. As it determines only the latest in a year
. For some women, this period (premenopausal) lasts several years
. If this period began to 45 years, to confirm the diagnosis gives blood on hormones
. The diagnosis is confirmed if the blood revealed a reduced number of female sex hormones estrogen (they are distinguished by the ovaries) and the increased number of pituitary gonadotropins, whose main task to stimulate ovarian function (so, the lower stands of female sex hormones, the greater the pituitary gonadotropins)
. Most revealing is a significant reduction in the secretion of estradiol (the main estrogen), and increased secretion of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (it acts in the first half of the menstrual cycle to stimulate egg maturation)
.
Premature menopause can begin when running out of eggs, or if the estrogen produced enough for the egg is ripe for one menstrual cycle. Then ovulation
Ovulation - How to determine as accurately as possible?
(yield mature egg from the ovary) occurs every menstrual cycle, and less frequently, sometimes every few months. Some women with premature ovarian failure may even conceive. However, it happens very often, but this premature menopause differs from natural - presence in the ovaries of a number of viable eggs that can still ripen.
In some cases, early menopause occurs when the follicles (vesicles in which mature ova) are no longer perceived effect of hormones that leads to ovulation and menstruation rare or their total absence.
By the beginning of early menopause may lead transferred earlier cancer, the early stages of ovarian cancer, autoimmune disease (in the basis of these diseases is allergic to their own tissues - glomerulonephritis, rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis - a variety of forms and complications
, Graves' disease, and so on), smoking (especially if the woman every day smokes a pack or more of cigarettes a day), poor diet, especially at a young age (for example, frequent hard diet to lose weight), large neuro-psychological load and stress including experienced in childhood.
Finally, early menopause may occur after surgery, by partial or complete removal of the ovaries or uterus (hysterectomy contributes to impaired blood supply to the ovary and accordingly reduce their functions). The impact on the ovaries to radiation or various drugs that suppress their function may also cause the beginning of early menopause.
Signs
The onset of early menopause may be accompanied by symptoms such as flushing and upper body, night sweats, insomnia, disorders of the nervous system in the form of increased irritability
Irritability - you try to control my temper
, Nervousness, decreased performance, constant fatigue, memory loss and concentration. All this leads to constant conflicts at work and at home, the formation of neuroses, including accompanied by depression and suicide attempts.
In addition, there is a change on the part of metabolism - slowing down all metabolic processes. Due to violations of protein metabolism quickly enough is aging of the skin, disorders of carbohydrate and fat metabolism lead to the appearance of puffiness and overweight. Disturbed sexual function - can disappear libido, which leads to family conflicts and aggravation of neuroses.
Insufficient and irregular supply of female sex hormones can lead to changes in the mammary glands in violation of their sensitivity and the formation of mastopathy. The internal organs often appear loss of appetite, bloating (flatulence), constipation.
Another sign of early menopause are disorders of the musculoskeletal system: the body loses calcium, and with it increases muscle weakness, are thinning and brittle bones that can lead to the appearance of frequent fractures.
To improve the condition during early menopause helps proper nutrition
Proper nutrition - the basic precepts of healthy food
: No diets just a balanced diet with lots of vegetables (including fresh, not thermally processed), fruits, cereals, milk products, cheese, lean meat and fish.
It should also be possible to move more, including watching and feasible sports: swimming, jogging, walking, bike riding and so on. Equally important is the exclusion of all stress and increased psycho-emotional stress.
Early menopause also requires timely treatment to the doctor and find out the reasons for its occurrence.
Galina Romanenko
