Why does your period go one day

Why menstruation is scanty and only goes on for one day:

• Lean and short menstruation, or hypomenorrhea, can be congenital and a variant of the norm for a particular woman.
• Severe restrictive diets put the body in a state of stress, menstruation becomes rare. If you continue the fasting diet, you may stop.
• A sharp increase in physical activity leads to an increase in testosterone levels and poor secretions.
• Stress, nervous exhaustion, lack of sleep.
• After menarche (the first menstrual period), menstruation will be short until a normal cycle is established.
• Attenuation of reproductive function during menopause leads to a reduction in secretions.
• Trauma and surgery, including artificial termination of pregnancy, reduce the time of menstruation.
• During pregnancy, there may be a scanty discharge, which can be mistaken for a short period.
• Thyroid disease and other hormonal problems.
• Inflammatory processes and neoplasms in the uterus.
• Polycystic ovary.

Of these cases, only cases with very young girls and women during menopause are considered the norm. The rest require examination and treatment.

Primary hypomenorrhea most often does not pose a threat to health and is recognized as a variant of the norm. If initially menstruation lasted longer than 3 days and became scarce, then the cause should not only be identified, but also eliminated. Such a condition in a woman of reproductive age is fraught with infertility and early menopause.

• If the problem is in nutrition and lifestyle, then you need to listen to the doctor’s recommendations and improve the situation. This will take some time. Eat a healthy and varied diet, exercise moderately, and avoid stressful situations.

• Inflammations are treated with antibiotics and physical therapy.

• In some cases, surgery may be required.

• Check your hormone levels. If it is unstable, substitution therapy will be needed.

Most of the problems with the female cycle can be successfully overcome.

Women are not very fond of menstruation, but their scarcity or absence is much worse and speaks of a health problem. Visit your gynecologist to identify the root cause of the problem and eliminate hypomenorrhea.

chief freelance specialist in obstetrics and gynecology of the Moscow Department of Health, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

– In the last century, many ladies believed that they should look at the gynecologist only after the woman became pregnant. This is the wrong approach. Now for the first time a newborn girl is examined by a neonatologist while still in the hospital. The next visit to the pediatric gynecologist should take place when the baby is 1 year old, then at 7, 10, 12 years old. But this is a schedule of preventive examinations, when there are no complaints and deviations. Under the supervision of a gynecologist, girls with urinary tract and kidney infections, allergies, diseases of the thyroid gland and adrenal glands, diabetes mellitus, neuroses, obesity, after operations in the abdominal cavity, especially due to complicated appendicitis, must be kept.

From the age of 14, a girl, if there are no complaints, should visit a gynecologist 1-2 times a year, do an ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs to diagnose ovarian neoplasms, take smears for oncocytology, this makes it possible to detect serious cervical diseases in the early stages. Competent prevention is the key to women’s health!