Don't be careless about irregular menstruation during puberty. Check early to prevent polycystic ovary syndrome

Don't be careless about irregular menstruation during puberty. Check early to prevent polycystic ovary syndrome

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common disease in women of childbearing age. Patients are often diagnosed with the disease during infertility treatment. But in fact, polycystic ovary syndrome begins to show obvious symptoms during adolescence, such as irregular menstruation, including infrequent menstruation and amenorrhea. Parents and girls are reminded that if they find abnormal menstruation, they should go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.

Symptoms that can be confused with puberty

1. Since menarche, most of these women have irregular menstruation, but many people do not have the awareness of seeking medical treatment, thinking that the menstrual cycle of adolescent girls is not fixed. Indeed, many adolescent women will have irregular menstruation after menarche. About 80% of women are anovulatory within one year of menarche, but most of them will have regular ovulation two or three years after menarche.

2. Women with normal menstruation will ovulate once a month, and each time they ovulate several times, and usually one normally developed follicle containing an egg is released in the end, which can lead to conception. Polycystic ovaries mean that the patient's ovaries develop more follicles than normal ovaries every month. Although most follicles will become larger, it is difficult to release mature eggs. Often, a normal egg cannot be released for several months, which manifests as infrequent menstruation or even amenorrhea.

3. In addition to irregular menstruation, PCOS also has some symptoms that are easily confused with some conditions of adolescence, such as acne. Acne is very common in adolescent women, and PCOS patients also have acne, seborrheic dermatitis, and hirsutism. This is due to excessive androgen. In addition to causing excessive body hair in women, obesity is also related to it.