Gynecological health regimen

Rhythm care that conforms to one's own menstrual cycle, avoids clear health minefields, and adjusts one's own body constitution. Anyone who talks about "universal health prescriptions" without personal constitution is just a hooligan.

Last week, we just received a 26-year-old new media girl in the outpatient clinic. She read the "Gong Han Prescription" and "Aunt's darkening is bad detoxification" every day. She saved a thick page of health care list: drink brown sugar ginger tea on an empty stomach in the morning, a spoonful of snow clams with royal jelly every day, and soak mugwort packs before going to bed. She held on to her legs for half a year. Last month, her aunt walked for 12 days without any hesitation. When she came to the hospital for a checkup, she found that the thickness of the endometrium was 14mm, and Type 3 breast nodules were also found. She was still wondering, even though she was using gynecological care, why did she end up with problems?

In fact, the logic of health care in different medical systems is inherently different, so there is no need to argue about right and wrong. When looking at gynecological problems, Western medicine focuses on hormone fluctuations and the stability of the local microenvironment, while Chinese medicine pays more attention to the movement of qi and blood and the coordination of the internal organs. The two can be combined without having to take sides.

Take the most common aunt care. Many people say that you should rub your belly more and drink blood-activating tea to remove blood stasis. However, if you have heavy menstrual flow, or have adenomyosis or submucosal fibroids, rubbing your belly vigorously or drinking brown sugar ginger tea will aggravate the bleeding and make the pain worse.； But if you have a constitution with cold coagulation and blood stasis, and your hands and feet are usually cold, and when your aunt comes, you have black blood and blood clots, and you have to hold a hot water bottle to relieve the pain, then avoid drinking iced drinks for a week in advance, apply a hot water bottle when you come, and drink a cup of warm rose tea, which can indeed relieve most of the pain. I used to have a 32-year-old patient with adenomyosis. I used to follow the trend of drinking brown sugar and ginger tea. Every time I came to my aunt, I had to rely on hemostatic drugs to stop it. Later, I switched to drinking tangerine peel and hawthorn water, iced milk tea, and iced coffee a week before my aunt. The dysmenorrhea was relieved, and the amount of menstruation was not as exaggerated as before.

The most common mistake in daily care is washing the private parts blindly. There is still a lot of controversy about this matter. Many beauty bloggers say that you need to use weakly acidic private parts care solution to clean it, and some even say that you need to irrigate the vagina. However, from a clinical point of view, more than 90% of vaginal flora imbalance is caused by excessive cleaning. There used to be a 22-year-old girl who had to wash her vagina with lotion every time after having sex. She got fungal vaginitis three times in half a year, and it was so itchy that she couldn't sleep all night. After listening to advice, she usually only washed her vulva with water and scalded her underwear with boiling water and exposed it to the sun. It never happened again. Of course, this does not mean that lotion cannot be used at all. If there is really inflammation, just follow the doctor's advice and use the corresponding medicinal lotion. Don't mess around with it if you are fine.

And the most frequently asked question is "Can I drink soy milk if I have fibroids/nodules?" Different systems have different opinions. The view of Western medicine is that soy isoflavones are phytoestrogens, and their activity is only one thousandth of human estrogen. Drinking one or two cups of soy milk a day will not stimulate the growth of fibroids at all, and there is no need to eat anything. ； However, the view of traditional Chinese medicine is that animal-derived estrogen supplements such as snow clams, royal jelly, and purple river jelly will indeed stimulate the growth of estrogen-dependent lesions. If you can, don’t touch them. As for those who say "you can't eat mangoes during your aunt's period" and "you can't drink ice", it really depends on your personal constitution. If you have been eating ice cream since you were a child, nothing will happen to you, and eating ice cream during your aunt's period will not cause any problems. If you are rolling in pain when you eat ice, then don't be greedy. Your body's feelings are more accurate than any popular science.

I have been doing clinical gynecology for almost 10 years, and the most common misunderstanding I have seen is that many people regard gynecological health care as "tonic" and stuff their stomachs with various tonics every day. Instead, they ignore the most basic things: don't stay up late, don't go on a diet to lose weight, and have regular gynecological examinations every year. I have seen too many girls not eating staple food for half a year in order to lose weight. In the end, their aunt did not come for three or four months and was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. ； I have also seen women who stayed up until two or three o'clock every day, had endocrine disorders and had multiple cysts, and were unable to conceive after two or three years of trying to conceive. On the contrary, those who did not mess around with any health regimen, ate and slept regularly every day, and had TCT+HPV and gynecological B-ultrasound once a year, had no problems whatsoever.

In fact, gynecological health care is really not that complicated. Don’t just listen to what others say and just put it on yourself, and don’t get nervous when you see your aunt is darker and has some small blood clots. Pay more attention to how your body feels. Comfort is the most important thing. If you really feel uncomfortable, go to a regular hospital. Don’t blindly search Baidu and buy folk remedies. They are more reliable than any fancy health regimen.