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2011-02-21

Women insomnia, susceptible to breast cancer

Survey shows that among the 10 cities of insomnia, 7 are women. 30 years old to 60-year-old female, 3 of the 4 sleep less than 8 hours a day. A series of figures show the breadth of women have insomnia to popularity. Why are women more likely to sleep? This is related to physiological characteristics of women, especially during pregnancy and menopause, women often because of changes in hormones affect sleep.
Long-term lack of sleep or insomnia affect women, not just the appearance of sagging eye bags and dark circles, as well as damage to health. Insomnia is not a disease but a symptom, may be hidden behind it, including depression, anxiety disorders including a variety of causes.
Three types of insomnia:
1. Sleep difficulties Type: The main manifestation is difficulty falling asleep.
2. Maintain the type of sleep difficulties: the performance of this type of insomnia is easy for the night awakening, or can not sleep after awakening. Wake up after more than a sense of physical prowess.
3. Waking type: performance of early morning awakening, but can not wake up after sleep. Typical patients with depression Sleep disorders are characterized by early awakening, and of course does not mean that the patient is depressed early awakening.
Hazard: The risk of insomnia increases the risk of breast cancer
Chronic insomnia will bring a series of serious problems, studies have found that 5 hours of sleep per night on average middle-aged women than 8 hours of sleep on average women are more susceptible to heart disease; insomnia may increase hunger, which affect the body's metabolism, it would be a woman to maintain a slim body has become more difficult. If less than 6 hours total sleep time, more than a dream, especially the frequent nightmares, wake up do not recover from fatigue after the other without treatment, but also the behavior of women affected during the day, there daytime drowsiness, dizziness, lack of concentration phenomenon and even inexplicable temper.
In addition, the insomnia will also increase the risk of breast cancer, and increased depression and anxiety and other psychological problems.
Get rid of bad habits of sleep before going to bed to ensure that
1 Do not eat spicy food before bedtime, such as coffee and tea, before going to bed 8 hours on this kind of food should stay away. In addition, do not eat before going to bed too full, but too hungry can also affect sleep. Before going to bed drink a cup of milk. Milk helps sleep, but for people allergic to milk, can eat an apple or eating slices of bread, the effect is the same. Normally eat some foods can improve sleep quality, such as jujube, lily, small rice, walnuts, honey, sunflower seeds and so on.
2, adhere to a regular schedule, the weekend not to sleep too late. If you sleep late on Sunday got up on Saturday night, Sunday night could be insomnia.
3, do not do intense thought before going to bed, for example, some people like the day before going to their work and want it again tomorrow, this thought would make the brain over-excited, is not conducive to sleep.
4, choose exercise time. Afternoon exercise is the best time to help sleep, regular physical exercise can also improve the quality of sleep at night. Remember that bedtime should not be strenuous exercise.
5, do not do in bed has nothing to do with sleep, such as in bed watching TV, reading, etc., to make his brain form a conditioned reflex, to bed and sleep into contact only.
6, to sleep on the night to. Nap during the day and night of sleep may lead to being "deprived." Strictly controlled during the day and sleep less than an hour, and can not sleep even after 3 pm.
7, to keep quiet sleep environment, sleep, turn off the TV and radio.
8, do not be too concerned about sleep, insomnia, do not give yourself the time pressure, there is pressure but more sleep.
9, the bedroom to maintain proper temperature, slightly cooler environment conducive to sleep.

2011-02-19

Early Signs of Women Menopause

In fact surely every woman should know that we will experience from adolescence to menopause menstrual menstruation stop the entire process. So what exactly women for early signs of menopause? Here we come to know in detail.
Experts pointed out: women in general from 30 years of age, ovarian function begins to gradually decline and shrinking follicles absorb the nutritional deficiencies, slow to mature, the amount of estrogen and progesterone secretion decreased, not time of endometrial thickening, loss, menstruation naturally can not come on time. At this time women are closer to menopause.
1, too few menstrual
The most common reason is that there is no ovulation. No ovulation occurs most frequently at the beginning of the first year of menstruation, menopause fast few years, too much pressure, the normal circumstances, the need for timely conditioning, and relax the pressure, maintaining a good mood, you can improve and restore normal menstruation. Because too few menstrual endometrial adhesions, although ovulation, but can not form the endometrium, menstruation, of course very small.
2, abnormal menstrual cycle
Menstrual cycle to come too close or too long time, the most common cause is not the normal follicular maturation, resulting in abnormalities of ovulation. Immature follicles without ovulation, there is no "yellow body", ovarian secretion of estrogen and progesterone on the endometrium of the control is not complete. Endometrium is too thick, it will show peeling unstable, irregular menstrual cycles, abnormal volume. This lack of ovulation is usually delayed for a long time period, endometrial spalling is not clean, the cumulative long-term, there will be changes in the risk of endometrial cancer.
3, excessive menstrual
Blood clots in the big, often dirty linen underwear, sanitary napkins have to use the king, dizziness phenomenon, is the blood too much. No ovulation, resulting in too little or too long menstrual flow did not come when the endometrium is not completely falling off due to become unstable very thick, is formed when peeling off a lot of menstruation. Instantaneous flow a lot of blood, the body will not support, may be unconscious, is very dangerous.

2011-02-07

Menopausal Women Do not ignore the irregular menstruation

Menopausal women menstruation was primarily due to declining ovarian function due to irregular bleeding. Its symptoms can be expressed in two situations: the amount of bleeding, long duration; menopause suddenly after a period of heavy bleeding. Both situations should be given attention, because the normal menstrual menopause performance is less and less, or not to cycle getting longer and longer periods.
Experts advise: Do not ignore the irregular menstruation
Experts advise menopausal women, irregular menstruation symptoms must first be checked to exclude organic disease, a clear cause of the pregnancy hormone therapy after adjustment cycle. Supplemented by blood and other treatment.
Adolescent girls, often due to endocrine immaturity, poor coordination, often after menarche, irregular menstruation, menstrual symptoms, such as not to; bleeding for a long time, dripping different; heavy bleeding and so on. Experts believe that doctors should give patients time to make up a large number of estrogen and progesterone for 14 days plus services. Some bleeding while taking drugs. For patients with severe anemia (hemoglobin less than 6 grams of the body), should first blood transfusion. In addition, patients should pay attention to in their daily lives to rest, eat some rich in iron, vitamins, protein foods to promote blood formation in vivo.
Luteal phase women of reproductive age there is not the main reason for irregular menstruation. When the corpus luteum insufficiency, inadequate secretion of progesterone, the performance will be different in a week or so after the formal dripping to menstruation. When the yellow atrophy insufficiency occurs long after the menstrual symptoms endless dripping. Senior experts say Beijing Gynecology and treatment of irregular menstruation women of reproductive age, we must first remove some pathology, such as pregnancy, with a ring produced bleeding, endometrial diseases and tumors. Progestin therapy after the diagnosis, adjustment cycle. In addition, oral contraceptives can also be given to inhibit ovarian function itself, to adjust the purpose of the menstrual cycle.
Women in the event of irregular menstruation, the focus at the same time not feel anxiety, especially adolescent girls under heavy psychological burden, endocrine even less coordination. Beijing Gynecology senior experts stressed that patients must be in a doctor's help, after excluding organic disease, drug treatment, timely adjustment period. In the course of treatment, patients should be under the guidance of a doctor medication, can not arbitrarily stop or reduce medication.
Note that in daily life will be genital cleansing and menstrual health, reduce the chance of retrograde infection, prevent inflammation. In addition, experts in Beijing in the long term senior gynecological clinical practice found that some menopausal women because of pregnancy due to irregular menstruation, so women in menopause are still appropriate contraception.