Climacteric
Climacteric these three, originally refers specifically to women years after menopause, but men also joined the ranks of menopause, and with proper nouns male menopause. But today the high Pharmacist is first to explore women's menopause.
Menopausal women how to define it?? Usually women if ovarian function gradually decline to a total loss of function in the meantime, during this period, due to ovarian hormone secreted by the gradual reduction will cause a lot of physical discomfort: for example, hot flashes, bone loss, night sweats, mood instability, skin atrophy and even symptoms of urinary incontinence, these symptoms, medically referred to collectively as "obstacles to menopause." The most easy to judge the performance of the external, that is, from说拜拜menstruation, so menopause was also known as the obstacle to menopause syndrome. In fact, the time of menopause symptoms occur, each person is different from the earliest possible age at 40, that may occur, not necessarily occur after menopause.
Obstacles to the symptoms of menopause, usually have the following:
(A) the spirit of areas:
Menopausal women prone to insomnia, anxiety, depression and other emotional changes, but these symptoms can easily be mistaken for pressure arising from, or even be identified as depression, patients taking psychotropic drugs can improve some symptoms, but for other non-psychiatric symptoms did not help.
(B) cardiovascular problems:
The most obvious symptoms are hot flashes, even if it is winter, the body will feel that there is a risk躁热to face up, there is only a few seconds, and there will be sweating the situation, and sometimes wake up one day, underwear are soaked.
(C) the skin and vagina, urethra epidermal atrophy:
Apart from the emergence of wrinkles, the skin gradually lost their luster, but also because the hormone to reduce the vaginal skin, caused by vaginal epidermal atrophy, in sexual intercourse when the easily lead to pain, leading to lack of women interested can be the proper use of lubricants. And the urethra caused by epidermal atrophy, easily lead to aseptic of urethritis, and the emergence of urinary frequency, urinary incontinence and other symptoms.
(D) abnormal menstruation:
Menstrual become very rules, do not have a fixed period and finally menopause.
Above to enter the menopausal symptoms in the period are likely to appear at the same time. Some women are more fortunate, and did not feel any symptoms of menopause, but most women have a greater or lesser extent several or all of the above symptoms, but these symptoms are still tolerable range. However, to determine whether obstacles for menopause, it is best able to help Gynecologist for detailed inspection hormones may be to determine whether to enter menopause.
As for the treatment of menopause, we will be the next one menopausal therapy discussion.
Tags: depression, menopause, male climacteric
June 7th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
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