To define how to treat menorrhagia, the first thing health professionals look for is to resolve its origin. This disorder is defined as the increase in the amount of menstrual bleeding or its excessive prolongation.
It is usual that the clinical form is associated with an alteration of the menstrual rhythm, which would be metrorrhagia. In this case, the more correct name is menometrorrhagia . Anyway, the treatments are coincidental.
What is metrorrhagia and what are its causes?
Strictly speaking, metrorrhagia occurs when a woman menstruates more than 80 milliliters of blood in her period. That is the technical limit in concrete measures to establish the pathology.
As for the days that are considered to establish that it is a prolonged bleeding, there is scientific discussion. As a general rule, almost all global diagnostic protocols consider more than a week to be abnormal.
The causes of the disorder can be summarized as follows:
Hormonal imbalance: many hormones intervene in the menstrual cycle, so a small imbalance in any of them is enough to cause more or less bleeding. It can be a thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, or prolactin problem.
Uterine fibroids: the presence of fibroids in the uterus is the cause of metrorrhagia. Fibroids are benign tumor growths of muscle in the wall of the organ. They deform the surface of the endometrium and cause it to bleed more.
Anticoagulation: women with clotting diseases or who are medicated with anticoagulants for another pathology may have very heavy bleeding, even with the risk of marked iron deficiency anemia.
Perimenopause: when a woman enters the ages of completion of menstrual cycles, rhythm disturbances are frequent. This leads to changes in the amount of monthly bleeding, ranging from stages of amenorrhea to periods of heavy blood that does not clot properly. For many it is the announcement of the onset of menopause.
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