What are the dangers of hyperprolactinemia to women?

What harm does hyperprolactinemia do to women? All diseases will cause some harm. What troubles women is that some gynecological diseases may cause infertility. High prolactin is an uncommon disease, but its harm cannot be ignored. Let us take a look at the harms of high prolactin.

What are the dangers of high prolactin? Here are the dangers of high prolactin.

1. Infertility caused by high prolactin acting on the pituitary gland, inhibiting the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. The follicle-stimulating hormone is too low to make the follicles mature, and the luteinizing hormone is too low to cause the luteinizing hormone peak, so there is no ovulation and infertility. Excessive prolactin can interfere with the function of the gonads. When the blood prolactin concentration increases, the prolactin level in the follicular fluid also increases, the estrogen level decreases, the granulosa cells decrease significantly, and the secretion of progesterone decreases, causing luteal insufficiency and leading to infertility or early pregnancy miscarriage.

2. Osteoporosis. Due to the possible decrease in estrogen levels, bone density is also negatively affected, and osteoporosis may occur. In addition, patients may also experience headaches and visual field defects. Patients with the disease should have a positive attitude to face it and not have an evasive mentality.

3. Oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea. Menstruation may be normal at the beginning, but gradually becomes oligomenorrhea or even amenorrhea. Luteinizing hormone levels are low, and normal fluctuations disappear, resulting in anovulation. Estrogen cannot cause positive feedback, which has a certain impact on the patient's psychology and physiology.

4. Lactation. Non-postpartum lactation is a sign of hyperprolactinemia. Some patients do not have elevated prolactin and have amenorrhea, which is often called amenorrhea and lactation syndrome. Some patients with high prolactin, amenorrhea, and lactation have pituitary tumors.

5. Others: If there is a pituitary tumor, it may cause headaches, decreased vision and visual field defects. Due to low estrogen levels, symptoms such as decreased libido, vaginal dryness, difficulty in sexual intercourse and smaller breasts may occur.

Experts point out that if hyperprolactinemia is not treated in time, it will cause complications such as low estrogen response, changes in vision or visual field, high androgen response, acromegaly and myxedema, which are harmful to women's health. Excessive prolactin can interfere with the function of the reproductive glands and is one of the causes of sexual dysfunction and infertility in both men and women. Therefore, hyperprolactinemia is related to infertility.

Warm reminder: For high prolactin, active treatment must be carried out to avoid greater harm to the patient. In addition, patients with high prolactin should also reduce caffeine and alcohol, which will stimulate the secretion of certain hormones and induce skin fever and other phenomena.