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Amenorrhea

Causes and types of amenorrhea


What is amenorrhea?

If translated literally from Greek, this disease constitutes a denial of "month"and"current". Speaking more simple language, it is the absence of menstruation in women. But this disease is called not simply the absence of menstruation, and prolonged absence that exceeds the period of six months, those representatives of the fair half, who are over sixteen and under forty-five. This disease is shows that the female body has been a failure. These failures can be attributed to emotional stress, psychological state and biochemical processes.


Types of amenorrhea

There are several types this is the most serious form of amenorrhea. Here we are talking about abuse in the body. In this case, reproductive ability may be completely lost. Most often, it is those girls whose menstrual cycle has never been, that is young or, on the contrary, in women in middle age. Violations are both functional and organic in nature.


Types of amenorrhea

There are primary and secondary amenorrhea:

Primary amenorrhea – condition in which the woman had no menstruation. Causes of primary amenorrhea: hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal, ovarian and uterine. While puberty does not occur.

Secondary amenorrhea – when this manifestation of amenorrhea menstruation have been, but irregular. Here, most likely, the reason will lie in infectious diseases. Also, the cause may be any genetic abnormalities, tumor diseases, when considered more deeply, the problem may lie also in the psychological state of the organism.

Causes of amenorrhea

The main causes of primary amenorrhea. If we consider the statistics, it can say that the manifestation of primary amenorrhea is not common, but can be treatment to the doctor. Thus the reasons of its manifestations are many, but they can be classified on the following criteria: anatomically due to genetic (hereditary) and emotional-psychological.

If we consider the anatomical reasons in more detail, they meet, usually the girls have a slim build. If you pay attention to the delay of menstruation, here speech can go about the delay of the development of the organism, to indicate thinness. Ifthere are obvious female characteristics (well-built figure), here speech can go about anatomical abnormalities. Deviations are identified with a physical exam and ultrasound. There can be a problem with virgin hymen.

If we consider the manifestations of amenorrhea as disorders associated with the psychological condition, then this can also be attributed to excessive physical load on the body, and anorexia. This advice might be quite simple: do not get carried away with diets and sports. The body doesn't like it when he gets bullied.

Remember that if your body is young enough, you should not give him too heavy of a load. Girls are not encouraged to do barbell lifting. As for the food, we should know the normal vitaminsthat need to your body. If you diet is necessary, just go to the doctor, and he you will pick up everything individually.


The principal causes of secondary amenorrhea

As mentioned above about secondary amenorrhea is absence of menstruation for more than six months, but those females in which it was installed.

Statistics can tell the following: ten percent of women between the ages of seventeen to forty-seven years, suffering from such a disease. Namely: menstruation they had once, and then stopped. The manifestation of amenorrhea is more complex.

Doctors "Evromedprestizh" the following were highlighted as the reasons that may manifest this type of amenorrhea:
– fast and cutting weight loss (thirty-eight percent of all cases);
polycystic ovarian (twenty two percent);
– premature menopause (twenty two percent);
– hyperprolactinemia (eleven percent).


The clinical picture of amenorrhea

If we are talking about abnormal development – such as overgrowth, or atresia of the vagina, something disease it is possible to identify certain system leakage. The first is a clear manifestation of pain, usually in the lower abdomen. May manifest as a more severe course, when it blood not separated in the usual way, go up and get into the intestines. The pain may be in the lumbar region.

The blood can also removed from extragenital organs. The pain in the lumbar region will have a pull character.