From heavy menstruation problems not insured by any one woman. Heavy menstruation occur both adolescent girls and women in premenopausal Premenopausal women - one step in a woman's life . Massive uterine bleeding is usually associated with hormonal imbalance, but can also occur in the presence of mass lesions in the pelvis. With abundant monthly question arises - what to do? In this situation, you should not rely on the advice of friends, and to be as fast as possible to see a doctor. Only a gynecologist can determine the cause of heavy menstrual periods and fix it.

Heavy menstruation

Menses are considered heavy if they last more than seven days, and the total amount of blood loss is one hundred milliliters or more. Excessive uterine bleeding requires frequent change pads or tampons How to use sanitary pad - basic precautions   (every two hours), and not only violates their way of life, but also threatens to hospitalization and duration of treatment. Especially a woman or girl should guard the appearance of a large number of menstrual flow clots. Heavy and prolonged menstruation, which extend ten to twelve days, called menorrhagia.

What not to do during heavy menstruation

During menstruation, especially if they are abundant, you must observe the following rules:

• Cancel sports

During heavy menstruation is not recommended to continue to exercise as usual. Sports cause an increase in the level of prostaglandins, which help strengthen uterine contractions and therefore increase the amount of menstrual blood loss. In addition, during menstruation often occur retrograde reflux of blood from the uterus through the fallopian tubes into the pelvic area, which is a provoking factor in the development of endometriosis.

• Cancel the reception of certain drugs

During heavy menstruation is strictly forbidden to take vasodilators and anticoagulants (drugs that thin the blood). The use of these funds will only aggravate uterine bleeding.

• Heat in the abdomen

Many women during menstruation experience pain and discomfort in the abdomen, and to weaken these symptoms are often applied to him a warm heating pad. It absolutely can not do, as though the heat relaxes the uterus and relieves pain, but increases the amount of menstrual blood loss.

Traditional methods used in heavy monthly

There are many popular ways to help reduce blood loss during menstruation. These include:

• Tincture of water pepper

Tincture of water pepper, which must take fifteen or twenty drops three times a day, significantly reduce the amount of menstrual flow. You can prepare a decoction of water pepper. To do this, pour a tablespoon of herbs with one cup of boiling water and heated in a water bath for fifteen minutes. Thereafter, the broth must infuse 45 minutes. Take one tablespoon twice or three times per day. The course of treatment is three to six months.

• Tincture of galangal

To prepare the tincture of galangal (tormentil) must be the root of grass grind and pour vodka at a ratio of 1: 3. Infuse followed for two weeks. Take the resulting infusion is necessary one week prior to menstruation and throughout the period of "critical days" of one tablespoon before bedtime Dreams: how to understand our dreams .

• Herbal

Mix 30 grams of mint leaves Mint and its useful properties: aromatic freshness 40 grams of chamomile flowers, 30 grams of valerian root. One teaspoon of the resulting mixture, pour one cup of boiling water and keep in a water bath for fifteen minutes. The resulting broth strain and cool. Take one glass in the morning before eating. The treatment continued for 21 days.

• Orange peel

Peel of oranges six refined cooking and a half liters of water as long as there will be half a liter of broth. The resulting "tea" strain, add one tablespoon of honey and take two tablespoons three times a day for half an hour before meals. This broth has a good hemostatic effect.

Treatment of amenorrhea - is not easy. First of all, you should find out its exact cause. Only then can a woman do to help. Today, there are developed methods of treatment of all types of amenorrhoea. A woman can help to have a baby, even if it does not have own eggs - used donor eggs and IVF technology.

Treatment of amenorrhea - the basic principles

In order to treat amenorrhea, you should first make a correct diagnosis. Without this treatment would be impossible. But there are general principles of treatment of all types of amenorrhoea. First of all - it's a proper diet, a healthy lifestyle, eliminating the high physical and neuropsychiatric load, stress, proper rest, combined with moderate exercise, normal sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams   at night and maximum stay in the fresh air. For the treatment of certain types amenorrhoea (e.g., psychogenic) is often sufficient.

Amenorrhoea but most still require medication and sometimes surgery.

Treatment of amenorrhea of ​​central (hypothalamic-pituitary) origin

Amenorrhea of ​​central origin may be due to different reasons, and therefore require different treatments. Very often the cause of this disease are increased loads and stresses that women obviously can not handle it. This leads to the development of amenorrhea. In this case, to help the general recommendations on nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Psychotropic drugs are used only in extreme cases, since they hamper the work of the neurohormonal system.

If the cause of the disease is a tumor or hypothalamic disease, the treatment can help a neurologist and endocrinologist, as in the hypothalamus are centers regulating the activity of the endocrine glands. Therefore, with the defeat of the hypothalamus develop diseases with very different symptoms: a violation of all types of metabolism, vegetative-vascular disorders, drops in blood pressure, heart attacks and heart pains, panic attacks Panic attacks - fear of nowhere   and so on.

If necessary for this kind of amenorrhea appoint synthetic analogs of hormones of the hypothalamus, pituitary gonadotropic hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, the female sex hormones.

The most common cause of amenorrhea in patients with lesions of the pituitary gland prolactinoma is a tumor that produces the hormone prolactin, suppresses the secretion of hormones of the hypothalamus, and thus the function of the entire neurohumoral system. Today, with this tumor have learned to cope without surgery using drugs that suppress the secretion of prolactin, such as Parlodel. Very large tumors compressing the surrounding tissue, or tumor insensitive to the drug exposed surgically removed.

Treatment of amenorrhea of ​​ovarian origin

The cause of amenorrhea of ​​ovarian origin is a violation of ovarian function congenital or acquired nature. For the treatment of this pathology is performed, hormone replacement therapy female sex hormones and ovulation stimulation medication is used from the group of stimulants secretion of pituitary gonadotropins (TG - follicle - FSH and LH - LH) clomiphene. Increased secretion of FSH and LH leading to stimulation of the ovaries. If the ovary still have egg capable of maturation, this leads to ovulation induction, whereby it becomes possible pregnancy.

If this treatment does not work, then the polycystic ovary performed surgical treatment of ovarian wedge resection or decapsulation (removal of the capsule of the ovary). This often leads to the recovery of the menstrual cycle.

Treatment of ovarian amenorrhea among adolescents should focus on strengthening the body and strengthening of secondary sexual characteristics. When stunting prescribers thyroid and anabolic steroids (nerabol, retabolil). Female sex hormones are allowed to use only 18 years old, as they contribute to the closure of growth zones. However, micro-doses of hormones sometimes still prescribe.

But even if all these ways to restore ovarian function fails, the woman is still a chance to have a baby with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF), and donor egg.

Treatment of amenorrhea uterine origin

Treatment of uterine amenorrhea Uterine amenorrhea - how and why there   It depends on the identified pathology. When adhesions in the uterus spend scraping Scraping - heavy and unsafe procedure   uterus or colliotomy using a hysteroscope with the subsequent appointment of female sex hormones estrogen to restore the mucous membrane (endometrium). Adhesions to the channel region of the cervix divide or dissect the probe using a hysteroscope.