What causes swelling before menstruation?

Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon that every mature female friend cannot avoid. Since maturity, menstruation should occur about every 26 days except during pregnancy. There are many uncomfortable symptoms during the menstrual period, such as irritability, cold body, abdominal pain, stomach discomfort, etc. Some friends will experience body swelling before the menstrual period. What is going on?

Premenstrual swelling is a symptom of fluid retention

1. Edema of the hands, feet, and eyelids: This is relatively common. A small number of patients experience significant weight gain, and clothes that usually fit them become tight and uncomfortable. Some people have a feeling of abdominal distension, which may be accompanied by gastrointestinal dysfunction such as nausea and vomiting, and occasionally intestinal cramps. Clinically, diarrhea and frequent urination may occur during menstruation. Due to edema and congestion of pelvic tissues, symptoms such as pelvic distension and lumbar pain may occur.

2. Premenstrual headache: It is a common complaint, mostly bilateral, but can also be unilateral. The pain site is not fixed, usually in the temporal or occipital region, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It may occur a few days before menstruation and reach its peak when menstrual blood appears. The headache is persistent or unprovoked, and comes and goes. It may be related to intermittent intracranial edema and is easily confused with menstrual migraine, which is often unilateral, with prodromal symptoms such as dizziness and nausea appearing a few minutes or hours before the onset. The attacks are often accompanied by visual disturbances such as dizziness (flashing and dark spots appear in the field of vision) as well as nausea and vomiting. It can be differentiated based on the location of the headache, the severity of the symptoms and accompanying symptoms.

Many women will be troubled by edema during menstruation, which is also caused by low estrogen and progesterone in the body and high water content in the body. In order to relieve edema, salt intake should be controlled during menstruation. Not only salt in food should be avoided, but also foods like soups and pickled meats contain high salt, so you should also eat less of these foods.

Body swelling before menstruation is also a common symptom. There is no need to panic too much. You need to pay more attention to your health. If the swelling is more severe, you can eat some swelling-reducing foods and control the salt intake appropriately. Make sure you get enough sleep every day. You can soak your feet in hot water before going to bed every night to relieve discomfort.