What Causes Menstrual Cramps
What Causes Menstrual Cramps?-Every woman whose already have period usually experienced pains which pains in the lowest part of pelvis a few days before, during or after a menstrual period called menstrual cramps or is also called dysmenorrhea. This pain usually feels most intense on woman about 24 hours after periods begin and gradually subside after 2 to 3 days. For some woman, not always experience this pain, but there are woman always feel this pain even some will faint.
How Woman Feel This Menstrual Cramps?
Woman usually feel the pain comes and goes but constant until it subsides. Many women also have constipation or diarrhea, also a headache. Before period begin, woman usually have premenstrual syndrome with symptoms such as irritability, nervousness, depression, fatigue, and abdominal bloating. During menstrual, sometime blood contains clots which may appear bright red and contain tissue or fluid from the lining of the uterus.
What Causes Menstual Cramps At Woman?
Basically, depend on what is it cause, menstrual cramps may be divided to 2(two) categories, such as primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea. have no identifiable cause (called) or may result from another disorder (called). Primary dysmenorrhea usually starts during adolescence and may become less severe with age and after pregnancy. Secondary dysmenorrhea usually starts during adulthood.
Primary Dysmenorrhea This type of menstrual cramps has no identifiable cause. From analyze, they, as expert said that this primary dysmenorrhea may be caused from prostaglandins during menstrual period. When this substance levels are high, it may cause contractions on uterus, then reducing blood flow to the uterus. Whereas the anxietas before period has believed have influence to primary dysmenorrhea.
Secondary dysmenorrhea
Different with causes of primary, the secondary dysmenorrea is usually caused by endometriosis, fibroids or adenomyosis in woman body and also cervical stenosis, but there are some causes such as birth defect, cysts or tumor and IUD. Each cause has spesific symptoms, for adenomyosis, the pain feels in the lowest part of the pelvis, and feeling like pressing on rectum and also bladder, while it creates bleeding between period (other days expected period days). For cervical stenosis, it makes pain in the abdominal during the period cycle.
If the woman have cyst or tumor tend to cancer, the woman usually experience indigestion followed by bloaing and backache. You should know crystal x that has repeatedly helped overcome, while when she has endometriosis, she usually feel crampy pain before and during menstrual period. Fibroid make a pain on the pelvic area, and for woman with IUD, she will feel pain during period and will subside gradually several month after inserted.
That was a few of symptoms for signing the type of menstrual cramps we need to consider, but if we feels lots of pain that even interfere activities, we have to consult to the specialist. So, for concluding, when woman should contact doctor? That is if she :
Feels pain a lot before, during and after period until faint
Feels pain tend to one of mentioned disease above.
Pain followed by abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharge
Pain when intercourse
How To Prevent Menstrual Cramps?
Okay, after reading above, what can we do to prevent menstrual cramps? Basically, menstrual cramps cannot be identified for some woman, and being so mysterious. But, we can try to prevent this pain with some ways, those are :
- Early prepare
If woman always feel pain before and during period, she can prepare for soem analgetics for self-treatment, then take one pil or tablet when feeling pain. If the pain persist, woman can take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs such as mefenamic acid or ibuprofen. For therapy dose, it should be started 24 to 48 hours before a beginning of period then continued 1 or 2 days after the first day of period.
- Early diagnose
Need to diagnose what kind of the pain, if it belong to primary or secondary, so that every woman who always feel menstrual cramps, need to check to the doctor and medical check-up for early diagnose
- Early medicinal treatment
After diagnose by specialist, for example a woman having tumor tend to cancer, fixed that the tumor is surgically removed, and same way to another disease. It should be removed as soon as possible. The aim is prevent the spread of the cancer cell to the other organ. Just remember, don’t wait until the stage increase to decide medical treatment.
- For daily activities, woman should :
make sure to consume vitamins and nutrition everyday such as vitamin E, vitamin B1, Zinc, omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium.
have an adequate rest
have reguler exercise
sometimes, she can have a low fat diet
As a woman, we have to pay an attention intimately to our reproduction system, even for thing we belief it is a small thing like menstrual cramps, because it can be a big problem if ignore it. So, always keep healthy, Ladies..
