Women Health Center

Missed menses and several bothersome period problems such as heavy blood loss, spotting can be indications of something far grave. Here’s a guide to red-alert symptoms which definitely merit gynaecologist’s guidance. Missed Menses In case one skips duo or more menses and one knows that conception has not occurred then it can be because of imbalanced hormones, thyroid conditions, excessively exercising or fad diets, being stressed out or earlier menopause. In the absence of menses, uterine lining could accrue to an extent causing development of irregular cells (potentially pre-malignant scenario). Apart from doing a pelvic examination, a physician would possibly also be ordering blood analysis for checking hormonal levels, screening for thyroid condition, PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome  [...]

Investigators from the National Inst. of Health have reported online in ‘The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism’ that women should get their cholesterol levels screened according to their menstruation cycle for deriving precise outcomes. The research showed that total blood cholesterol levels showed variation by nearly twenty percent over the span of a woman’s menstruation cycle. This observation was particularly more apparent in over forty year old females with obesity issues. One of the researchers, Doctor S.L. Mumford from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville stated that their study noted peak levels of blood cholesterol in the initial half of the menstruation cycle and then post-ovulation the levels began to  [...]

The trick for women attempting conception is to locate their own, personal, highly fertile time. Typically, menstrual cycle would last for twenty-eight days and onset of menses taking place on day one. Generally, fertile window in women is the day she ovulates (typically 12-16 days prior to menses onset) and the 5 days which precede it. In the average female, this would occur anywhere between 10-17days. However the issue is that not many females are average. Hence, individual awareness of peak fertile time is of utmost importance. One technique of determining personal fertile period is keeping tabs on the menstrual cycle (for 8 or more months in case doable). This would mean selecting the briefest cycle (say twenty-seven days) and deducting eighteen from this number. The resultant figure  [...]