What are critical days and how to survive?

Despite the fact that thanks to advertising, we hear about critical days every day, even in adult women, sometimes there are questions related to the course of menstruation. So, what are these critical days? Menstruation is the discharge of blood from the genital tract, which periodically occurs in women of childbearing age. There is such a bleeding due to the rejection of the upper layer of the mucosa lining the internal cavity of the uterus. Every month before ovulation, the mucous uterus thickens, preparing to receive a fertilized egg. If conception does not occur, then the upper layer of the sheath is rejected and displayed outside. This happens every time until a pregnancy occurs or a woman enters the menopause period.

The first critical days for girls begin, as a rule, at the age of 11-15 years. However, the process of sexual development in each girl passes in its own way, so there are deviations from the term. Recently, menarche (the so-called first menstruation) is somewhat "younger", it is not uncommon for menstruating to start a ten-year-old girl. The first couple of years can be irregular, but by about 15 years the cycle is usually established.

Sometimes girls experience a delay in sexual development, and the first menstruation can occur at the age of 15-16 years. However, if by the age of seventeen the girl has never had a critical day, this is a serious sign of health disorders in the reproductive sphere.

What should be the regularity of menstruation? Normally, critical days come regularly at regular intervals. A cycle of 21 to 35 days is considered normal. Most often, the intermenstrual period is 28 days or one lunar month. Ideally, after the cycle is set, the menstrual period in women should arrive after a certain period of time throughout the reproductive age, excluding the time of pregnancy and lactation. In practice, this ideal cyclicity is rarely observed. Stress, taking certain medications, diseases and even bad ecology can cause the cycle to fail and lead to a delay in menstruation. Therefore, deviations from the cycle within 10 days are considered normal. If there are longer delays (in the absence of pregnancy), and if critical days come too often, you should consult a gynecologist.

And how many critical days last? There is no single term for normal menstruation for all women. Usually monthly takes from 3 to 7 days. Too long bleeding, as well as excessively meager, should serve as an excuse for contacting doctors.

How much blood does a woman lose each month? With normal menstruation, only 20-50 grams of blood are released per day. Usually, the most abundant discharge falls on the first or second day of menstruation, and then the discharge becomes much less. In the event that during 5-7 days of allocation abundant, it is necessary to seem to the gynecologist.

Quite often, an increase in the number of discharges leads to the installation of a contraceptive, such as IUD. However, the spiral located in the uterus affects only the amount of secretions, but not the duration of the periods. If after the installation of the Navy bleeding has become not just more abundant, but also last longer than 7 days, you must tell this to the doctor.

And the last question, which, as a rule, excites all women: is it normal that the monthly ones are accompanied by pain? It should be noted that monthly pains, similar to weddings, only weaker, are not a sign of the disease, but it is possible and necessary to combat them. Typically, doctors recommend taking painkillers. In some cases, planned physiotherapy can help. In addition, if a woman experiences severe pain during menstruation, she is not recommended to use the IUD, the installation of which will only exacerbate the pain. But the use of hormonal oral contraceptives, on the contrary, almost always helps to get rid of pain in critical days.