1, why are you in a bad mood?
The change of personal mood will be influenced by hormones in the body. During menstruation, due to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body, the secretion level of some hormones will increase, leading to emotional disorder, so there will be bad emotions during menstruation.
2. What are the emotional changes?
Generally speaking, the emotional changes during menstruation are medically called premenstrual tension. The general manifestations are: depression, irritability, melancholy, lethargy, and even emotional changes such as crying or getting angry for no reason.
3. How to relieve mood swings?
1, Exercise more: Various aerobic fitness activities can alleviate or even eliminate symptoms, and women who plan to do physical exercise can reduce amenorrhea, depression and anxiety.
2, eat more foods that stabilize emotions: carbohydrate foods can increase the level of serotonin in the brain and reduce adverse emotional reactions. Women with premenstrual dysphoria should eat more foods with high sugar content and low fat content.
3. Appropriate use of supplements: Vitamin B6 and calcium and magnesium supplements can improve symptoms such as depression, irritability, headache and abdominal distension. However, excessive use of supplements is harmful to the health and should be taken according to the doctor's advice.
4. Relieve psychological stress: When women feel stressed, they are more likely to respond to normal hormonal changes and have physical symptoms and emotional changes. Women who receive systematic relaxation and meditation training can greatly alleviate their premenstrual anxiety symptoms.
4. What food causes it?
1, try to drink less tea or not to drink tea: because tea is rich in tannic acid, it may hinder the absorption of iron ions by intestinal mucosa; It leads to breast swelling and pain in women, causing anxiety, irritability and emotional instability in women.
2. Drink less coffee and drinks: Caffeine in coffee will make women anxious, irritable and emotionally unstable, and it will also destroy carbohydrate metabolism.
3, drink less alcoholic beverages: alcohol will consume vitamin B and minerals in the body, stimulate vasodilation, leading to premature menstruation and menorrhagia in women. This has led to changes in women's emotions.
4, eat less chocolate: chocolate can easily lead to women's emotional out of control, affecting the balance of hormones in the body, aggravating uncomfortable feelings.
5. Dietary taboos during menstrual period
1, cheese food: cheese is the source of dysmenorrhea. Milk, cheese, cream, yeast milk, eggs and other foods will destroy the absorption of magnesium and cause dysmenorrhea.
2. Caffeine-containing beverages: Caffeine can cause breast pain, anxiety, irritability and emotional instability, and at the same time consume vitamin B stored in the body and destroy carbohydrate metabolism.
3. Chocolate: Chocolate will cause more emotional instability and sugar addiction. Besides gaining weight, it will also consume vitamin B in the body. 4, sugar will consume vitamin B and minerals in the body, making people's stomachs prefer sugary foods.
4, wine: wine will consume vitamin B and minerals in the body, too much wine will destroy the metabolism of carbohydrates and produce too much estrogen.
5, high-fat food: cattle, pigs, mutton are high-fat foods, eating too much will consume a lot of minerals in the body.
6, high-sodium food: high-sodium food can cause breast pain and edema and breast pain. The "invisible" foods with high sodium content in life include preserved eggs, salted ducks, herring, sausages, ham, tofu, dried tofu, candied fruit, olives, roasted peanuts, canned tomato juice, canned corn, canned kimchi and other foods.
7, snails: snails are cool and can clear heat. Avoid eating cold things such as snails during menstruation.
8, milk: cheese is the source of dysmenorrhea: such as milk, cheese, cream, yeast milk, these foods will destroy the absorption of magnesium.
9. Salty food: this kind of food, such as salted fish and bacon. Excessive consumption can lead to menstrual headache, excitement and other symptoms.
10, Crab: Crab is cool, which can clear away heat, cool blood and dissipate blood stasis. Women should avoid eating cold things during menstruation, especially those with cold dysmenorrhea.
Pear: avoid eating more raw pears during menstruation.
12, green tea: menstrual blood during menstruation contains relatively high hemoglobin, plasma protein and hemoglobin, so women will lose a lot of iron after menstruation, so they should supplement more iron. Tea contains more than 30% tannic acid, which is easy to combine with iron ions in the intestine to produce precipitation, which hinders the absorption of iron ions by intestinal mucosa; It will cause breast pain, anxiety, irritability and emotional instability, and at the same time consume vitamin B stored in the body and destroy carbohydrate metabolism.
13, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, clove and pepper: You should eat light, tasteless and nutritious substances during menstruation, and it is not advisable to eat spicy food with strong irritation, so as not to stimulate vasodilation and cause early menstruation and excessive menstruation. Pepper, clove and pepper are all ingredients. When cooking, adding some can make the food taste better. However, menstrual women should not eat these spicy and irritating foods, otherwise it will easily lead to dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia.
14, soft drinks: Many women who like to drink carbonated drinks will experience fatigue and listlessness during menstruation, which is a manifestation of iron deficiency. Because most drinks, such as soda water, contain phosphate, it will chemically react with iron sanctions in the body, making iron difficult to absorb. In addition, drinking more soda will neutralize the sodium bicarbonate in soda and gastric juice, reduce the digestion and sterilization of gastric acid, and affect appetite.
15, cold drink: patients with cold menstruation should not drink. In short, in terms of menstrual diet, we should avoid cold diet. Traditional medicine believes that blood heat is good, and blood cold is blood stasis. If the diet is cold during menstruation, it will hinder digestion, and the second will damage the human yang, leading to internal cold, which can make menstrual blood run poorly, leading to too little menstrual blood and even dysmenorrhea. Even in hot summer, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation. It is advisable to eat cooked and warm food during menstrual period, and also eat a little mutton, chicken and longan for isothermal tonic food in winter.
16, Persimmon: Persimmon contains tannic acid, which is easy to combine with iron, hindering the human body's intake of iron in food. Because women lose a lot of blood during menstruation and need iron supplementation, they should not eat persimmons.
17, bamboo shoots: bamboo shoots are cold, containing more crude fiber and insoluble calcium oxalate. Women should avoid eating during menstruation.