Does irregular menstruation affect pregnancy? What are the causes of irregular menstruation?

Menstruation is also called period, aunt, etc., and Chinese medicine calls it menstrual blood. Normal female menstrual bleeding usually lasts for 2-7 days, and the total amount of menstrual bleeding is 30-50ml each time. However, in real life, many female friends have abnormal menstrual cycles or bleeding, early menstruation, delayed menstruation, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, etc. Chinese medicine calls it menstrual disorder, which is a common gynecological disease.

The causes of irregular menstruation can be divided into the following categories:

1. Caused by neuroendocrine dysfunction: mainly due to unstable or defective function of the posterior brain-pituitary-ovarian axis, that is, menstrual disorder.

2. Caused by organic diseases: including local inflammation, tumors and developmental abnormalities, malnutrition of the reproductive organs; intracranial diseases; other endocrine dysfunctions such as thyroid and adrenal cortex dysfunction, diabetes, Sheehan's disease, etc.; liver diseases; blood diseases, etc.

3. Emotional disorders cause menstrual disorders: Emotional disorders, such as long-term mental depression, mental stress, or major mental stimulation and psychological trauma, can lead to menstrual disorders or dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. This is because menstruation is formed after the hormones secreted by the ovaries act on the endometrium, and the hormones secreted by the ovaries are controlled by the hormones released by the pituitary gland and hypothalamus. Therefore, whether the function of the ovaries, pituitary gland, or hypothalamus is abnormal, it will affect menstruation.

4. Cold stimulation causes oligomenorrhea or even amenorrhea: When women are exposed to cold during menstruation, the blood vessels in the pelvic cavity will contract excessively, which can cause oligomenorrhea or even amenorrhea. Therefore, women should pay attention to keeping away from cold and dampness during menstruation.

5. Dieting causes irregular menstruation: Girls need fat to account for at least 17% of their body weight to have menarche, and body fat must reach at least 22% of their body weight to maintain a normal menstrual cycle. Excessive dieting, due to insufficient energy intake, causes a large amount of fat and protein in the body to be consumed, resulting in estrogen synthesis disorders and obvious deficiency, affecting menstruation, and even causing scanty menstruation or amenorrhea. Therefore, women who pursue a slim figure must not diet blindly.

So, does irregular menstruation affect pregnancy?

Irregular menstruation affects ovulation and also affects conception. Normal menstruation is a manifestation of normal development and sound function of female internal reproductive organs. If menstruation is early or late, the menstrual period is shortened or prolonged, and the amount of blood is too much or too little, it indicates endocrine disorders.

In addition, why is it said that irregular menstruation will affect fertility:

1. Irregular menstruation will affect normal ovulation: Irregular menstruation directly affects normal ovulation in women, among which anovulatory menstruation is the most common, because anovulatory menstruation will inevitably affect fertility. Anovulatory menstruation is mainly manifested by shortened menstruation period to less than 21 days, infrequent menstruation once every few months, continuous menstruation, excessive menstrual flow, etc.

2. Hidden diseases will hinder the combination of sperm and egg: The main cause of irregular menstruation is gynecological diseases, such as gynecological inflammation pelvic inflammatory disease, adnexitis, endometritis, salpingitis and oophoritis, gynecological tumors uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, polycystic ovary syndrome, etc. These gynecological diseases will affect or even hinder the combination of sperm and egg, thereby affecting fertility.

Therefore, for female friends, when the body shows signs of irregular menstruation, you should take it seriously, find the cause in time, and prescribe the right medicine.