Amenorrhea
Disease information
Amenorrhea
In some women its rule or
menstruation
can be seen suspended during three months or without having
a
pregnancy
and this it happens more to more frequency during the adolescence,
period
in which the
sexual
maturity of the organism is carried out.
The
menstruation
usually is suspended of
normal
form during the
pregnancy
, after the this (
period
known like puerperio) and
lactancia
.
This symptom can be presented / displayed when there is
a
menstruation
absence until the 18 years of age and it is classified like
primary
amenorrhoea or when after to have had several
menstrual
cycles, this is suspended without apparent reason, which is
a
secondary amenorrhoea.
The
primary
amenorrhoea appears when there is an alteration in the on - speed operation of the ovaries and it is pronounced by delay in menarca, that is in the first
menstruation
, as well as in the appearance of the secondary
sexual
characters, that is the bud of the púbico hair and in armpits,
development
of the breasts or chests and lack of definition in the feminine corporal structure, like waist, hips.
This is originated by the lack of production of hormones like the progesterone, estrogens, androgens and corticoids or by the presence of cysts in ovaries. Also it can be caused by the abnormal
development
of the uterus and the
vagina
or by the presence of
a
perforated hymen and very not closed, that makes difficult the elimination of the sanguineous flow.
The secondary amenorrhoea, appears in
a
woman who presented / displayed
normal
menstrual
periods and they are suddenly suspended, without the cause is
a
pregnancy
. The most
common
causes are the psychological ones and frequently they are associated to the
nervosa
anorexy, to the presence of cysts, upheavals of the gland
thyroid
and the hypothalamus, to
stress
or alterations in the uterus, related generally by the practice of an
abortion
badly made.
The treatment to regularize the women who undergo amenorrhoea, is very variable, depending on the cause. In the secondary amenorrhoeas, caused by faults of the ovaries, it is necessary the estrogen use and progesterone; in other cases medicines can be used that prevent the increase as large as the cysts and if it gets to be necessary is arrived at
a
surgery to extirpate them.
When the cause is psychological, gynecological treatment is due to give at the same time that psychiatric, to control the
problems
of life style,
stress
and other
diseases
like the addictions and the related ones to nourishing upheavals, like
bulimia
and the anorexy.
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