Why do I feel back pain before my period?

Many women will have some abnormal conditions before menstruation, such as breast pain and back pain. Especially the phenomenon of back pain should be known to everyone. Many women should have such conditions, but many women are very concerned about this issue. They are afraid that such symptoms before menstruation will have some impact on their health. Let’s take a look at what is the cause of back pain before menstruation.

Back pain before and during menstruation are both normal phenomena. Let’s take a look at the reasons.

During menstruation, the body's resistance decreases and emotions are prone to fluctuate. Some people may experience symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue. Due to menstrual blood loss, especially menorrhagia, the main components of blood such as plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, etc. will be lost with each menstruation. Therefore, within 1 to 5 days after the menstruation is over, protein, minerals and blood-enriching foods should be supplemented. Choose foods and Chinese medicines that have both beauty-enhancing and blood-replenishing effects, such as milk, eggs, pigeon eggs, quail eggs, beef, mutton, pig pancreas, water chestnuts, spinach, cherries, longan meat, lychee meat, carrots, apples, angelica, safflower, peach blossom, cooked rehmannia, and polygonatum.

Do's and Don'ts of Diet During Menstruation

Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for adult women, but the body will also be affected to a certain extent during menstruation, such as reduced resistance, mood swings, irritability, anxiety, etc. Due to menstrual blood loss, the body loses a lot of iron, especially those with heavy menstruation. Therefore, in addition to avoiding excessive fatigue and maintaining a happy spirit during menstruation, you should pay attention to the following dos and don'ts in your diet.

(1) Avoid eating raw or cold food, and prefer eating warm or hot food: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood flows when it is heated, but becomes stagnant when it is cooled. Eating raw or cold food during menstruation can damage the spleen and stomach and hinder digestion. It can also easily damage the body's yang energy and cause internal cold. Stagnation of cold air can cause blood to stagnate, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat ice cream and other cold drinks during menstruation. Warm food is good for blood circulation. In winter, you can also eat some foods that have warming and tonic effects, such as beef, chicken, longan, wolfberry, etc.

(2) Avoid spicy and sour food, and prefer light food: Menstruation can often make people feel very tired, with weakened digestive function and poor appetite. To maintain nutritional needs, the diet should be fresh. Fresh food is not only delicious and easy to absorb, but also has less nutritional damage and less pollution. During menstruation, the diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat less or no fried, spicy and other irritating foods to avoid affecting digestion and causing excessive menstrual bleeding due to spicy stimulation.

(3) Combine meat and vegetables to prevent iron deficiency: Women generally lose about 30 to 50 milliliters of blood during menstruation, and each milliliter contains 0.5 milligrams of iron, which means that women lose 15 to 50 milligrams of iron each time they menstruate. Iron is one of the essential elements for the human body. It not only participates in the synthesis of blood proteins and various important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging, energy metabolism and other aspects. Therefore, it is very necessary to supplement with iron-rich foods that are easy to digest and absorb during menstruation. Foods such as fish and various animal liver, blood, lean meat, egg yolk, etc. are rich in iron.

Everyone should know why there is lower back pain before menstruation. Women should pay attention to diet before and during menstruation. If some abnormal phenomena occur, they should pay attention to them in time. A reasonable diet can also effectively relieve the physical discomfort caused by menstruation.