How to relieve menstrual headaches 12 tips to relieve menstrual headaches

　　menstruation pair female It is very important, but many women suffer from premenstrual syndrome, such as headaches. This directly and seriously affects the body healthy , so everyone needs to pay attention to some ways to relieve menstrual pain, such as taking hormones, effective massage, relaxing, etc. This will help with comprehensive conditioning. So how to relieve menstrual headaches? What causes menstrual headaches? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

　　How to relieve menstrual headaches?

　　1. Taking estrogen

　　You can take estrogen for 3 days before menstruation under the guidance of a doctor.

　　2. Massage

　　Constantly combing your scalp with a pointed comb can improve blood supply to the brain.

　　3. Hot compress

　　Soak your hands in a basin of hot water and apply a hot towel to your head for 30 minutes each time.

　　4. Massage

　　Curl your index finger and stroke your forehead with the inner side 30 times, from the middle of the forehead to the temples； Rub your temples with your middle finger 30 times ； Use your palms to perform dry facial cleansing movements 10 times.

　　5. Avoidance method

　　avoid causing Migraine Foods such as ham sausage, canned food, refrigerated food, aged cheese, pickled food, salted fish, etc.

　　6. Control your diet

　　Before and after menstruation, you should eat more foods that can help relieve hormonal effects, such as milk, fruits, vegetables, oats, oysters, etc.

　　7. Get more magnesium

　　Studies have found that people who suffer from food-induced migraines have extremely low levels of magnesium in their blood. Therefore, you can consume more foods rich in magnesium, such as beans, bananas, seafood, nuts, etc.

　　8. Moderate exercise

　　Exercise can help people relieve tension and stress, and is one of the effective ways to prevent mild menstrual migraines. If you have a severe migraine during menstruation, you should not exercise as it will worsen the pain.

　　9. Brain massage

　　You can use a comb appropriately to comb your hair, and massage your scalp and skin through combing your hair to relieve menstrual headaches and other symptoms. You can also use your fingers to massage your head to relieve tension in the cerebral blood vessels.

　　10. Take a slow walk

　　Appropriate exercise can effectively relieve menstrual headaches, but since menstrual periods are not suitable for strenuous exercise, it is recommended that appropriate slow walking and walking can improve menstrual syndrome to a certain extent and relieve the bad mood of tension and depression.

　　11. Eat sweets appropriately

　　Sugar can well expand the blood sugar capacity in the human body and help relieve high stress and pressure on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems. nerve and other symptoms, for this reason, consuming some sugar-containing foods appropriately during menstruation can effectively relieve migraines.

　　12. Relax

　　People always say that girls tend to be the most irritable in the days when their aunt comes. If you want to relieve headaches and menstrual discomfort, you must start with the little things in your daily life, relax your mood, don't be too impatient and depressed, and relax your mood.

　　What causes menstrual headaches?

　　1. Lack of exercise

　　Often "staying" at home, exercising less, and having low metabolic levels can lead to low intracranial pressure due to low blood pressure, eventually causing headaches.

　　2. Mental pressure

　　Women who have long-term work stress and unrelieved psychological pressure are prone to menstrual headaches and should learn to self-regulate to avoid affecting normal menstruation.

　　3. Genetic factors

　　Menstrual headaches often run in families, and experts believe this may be genetic. If you have menstrual headaches in your family, you should avoid the influence of the above factors in your life.

　　4. Lack of sleep

　　Insufficient or irregular sleep, mental or physical fatigue. Lack of sleep not only affects normal life and induces menstrual headaches, but in severe cases can also lead to heart disease, digestive system disease occurrence.

　　5. Physiological reasons

　　This may be related to changes in estrogen concentrations in serum. Before and after menstruation, the concentration of estrogen in the serum decreases, causing changes in intracranial and extracranial blood vessel tension, causing some sensitive women to have headaches.

　　6. Malnutrition

　　Excessive dieting to lose weight can easily lead to malnutrition. Insufficient food intake leads to insufficient water and salt, which not only causes weakness in the limbs, but also leads to insufficient cerebrospinal fluid secretion and reduced intracranial pressure, thus causing menstrual headaches.

　　7. Excessive blood loss

　　Menstrual headaches are often caused by blood deficiency caused by excessive blood loss. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the head is the meeting point of all Yangs and the location of the Marrow Sea. Menstrual headaches are caused by excessive blood loss, resulting in Qi deficiency and lack of blood, and the Marrow Sea cannot be nourished.