Contents:
- Medical Video: San Diego Health: Women's Heart Disease - Signs, Symptoms and Frequently Asked Questions
- 1. Osteoporosis, a disease that most often attacks menopausal women
- 2. Menopausal women are at risk of developing liver disease
- 3. Body weight rises quite a lot at menopause
- 4. Heart and blood vessel disease also lurks menopausal women
- 5. In urine urine, is unable to hold urine
- 6. Pelvic organ prolapse, weakened pelvic muscles
- 7. The eyes become more dry due to menopause
Medical Video: San Diego Health: Women's Heart Disease - Signs, Symptoms and Frequently Asked Questions
If you enter the age of 40 to 50 years, then prepare yourself to face menopause. Just as when you first experience menstruation, some things will happen to the body, such as function and body shape, the same thing you will feel if you enter menopause. But don't worry, you are not alone in facing this change, menopause occurs in all women in any part of the world. Even so, women who enter menopause have the potential to experience several complications and medical conditions. What diseases can be experienced by menopausal women?
1. Osteoporosis, a disease that most often attacks menopausal women
Women have a greater chance of developing osteoporosis compared to men. This is actually caused by changes in female hormones that occur during menopause. The hormone estrogen - the female reproductive hormone - plays a role in the formation of new bone cells (osteoblasts) and helps to solidify the bones. Without estrogen, your bones will become more brittle and porous, making it easy to experience fractures.
Parts of bones that are vulnerable to osteoporosis are the bones of the pelvis and spine. To reduce the risk of osteoporosis, you should exercise regularly and eat foods that are high in calcium and vitamin D.
2. Menopausal women are at risk of developing liver disease
Disorders of liver function that lurk women menopause can occur due to changes in reproductive hormones. Yes, indeed almost all problems that come to menopausal women are caused by hormones that are unstable and this problem is still caused by the amount of estrogen that changes.
Under normal circumstances, the liver is responsible for preventing body poisoning, so that all poisons and substances that are not needed will be removed from the blood. Meanwhile, the estrogen hormone plays an important role in all these processes. So when the amount of these hormones decreases, liver function will be disrupted.
3. Body weight rises quite a lot at menopause
You should not be surprised to see the weight scale when you go through menopause, because changes in body weight are a common thing. This time, the cause is a slow metabolism in menopausal women. In addition, muscle mass will begin to decrease slowly - although indeed all people who are aging will experience the same thing. Reducing muscle mass makes metabolism slow down more.
Therefore, menopausal women must adopt a healthy lifestyle and choose foods with the principle of balanced nutrition to maintain their weight.
4. Heart and blood vessel disease also lurks menopausal women
Menopausal women have a higher risk of experiencing various heart diseases than men. Decrease in the hormone estrogen affects the speed of the heartbeat of a menopausal woman. So, the heart rate becomes irregular and this can cause dangerous complications, such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, and so on.
5. In urine urine, is unable to hold urine
As you get older, your body's muscles are no longer as strong as when you were young. One of the weakened muscles is in the vagina and bladder, which makes you unable to hold urine for a long time, or urinates suddenly when coughing and laughing, and can also when urinating accidentally when lifting heavy items. But calm, this condition can be prevented by doing Kegel exercises so that the pelvic and vaginal muscles are strong again.
6. Pelvic organ prolapse, weakened pelvic muscles
Still associated with a decrease in muscle ability that occurs in postmenopausal women, pelvic organ prolapse can arise due to the muscles and ligaments that support the organs around the pelvis to weaken. This condition results in organs sticking out of the position of the uterus and making the uterus, bladder, and rectum decrease from their initial position.
7. The eyes become more dry due to menopause
Not only the hormone estrogen is the main cause of all medical conditions that attack menopausal women. But the hormone testosterone - yes, women have this hormone even in small amounts - which decreases can make your eyes dry more often. This hormone testosterone plays a role in regulating the meibomic gland which functions to produce fluid in the eye and prevent it from drying out.
