Contents:
- Medical Video: Menopause: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Timeline, and More
- How do you prepare yourself for menopausal symptoms?
- 1. Applying a healthy lifestyle
- 2. Avoid bad habits
- 3. Find out about menopausal symptoms
- How long will menopausal symptoms appear?
Medical Video: Menopause: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Timeline, and More
Are you in your 40s and experiencing a chaotic menstrual schedule? You may experience menopause. Menopause is a natural condition that occurs in women entering the age of 40-50. Not all women can undergo menopause easily, because many health problems arise. Therefore, you must prepare yourself to deal with it so you don't experience severe menopausal symptoms.
How do you prepare yourself for menopausal symptoms?
Various changes in body function will occur when you enter menopause. This is very common and is experienced by all women aged 40-50 years. Some disorders that might occur such as:
- Irregular menstrual schedule
- The vagina becomes dry
- Sweating at night
- Sleep disturbance
- The mood is volatile and sensitive
- Osteoporosis
- Cognitive ability decreases
All these conditions can arise when you experience menopause. But don't worry, you can minimize and alleviate all these conditions by preparing them before the menopausal symptoms come.
1. Applying a healthy lifestyle
Applying a healthy lifestyle early can minimize and relieve menopausal symptoms that will appear later on. You have to do regular exercise to make your bones stronger so as to minimize or delay osteoporosis. Exercise at least 30 minutes per day can make your bones denser.
In addition, eating healthy foods and drinks, such as avoiding high-fat foods and consuming more fibrous foods and vitamin-mineral sources.
2. Avoid bad habits
Bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol, and staying up late can worsen menopausal symptoms that will appear. For example, making bones more fragile. After all, all these habits are not good for your overall health. If you still do it, you are also at risk of experiencing various chronic diseases.
3. Find out about menopausal symptoms
Before entering menopause, you should already know what symptoms might appear at that time. in addition to finding out the symptoms of menopause that arise, you should also find out how to prevent it or overcome it.
In addition, if you experience a symptom, even if it's mild, you should immediately see a doctor. This is to prevent the worse symptoms from happening.
How long will menopausal symptoms appear?
Just like your first period, every woman will experience menopause at different times. Many factors influence when menopause symptoms occur in women, such as lifestyle, genetics, diet, stress, and general health status.
Before entering menopause, women will usually enter the perimenopause period, namely the transition to menopause. When entering this period, several symptoms begin to appear, such as a disruption of your menstrual schedule and a sensation of heat in your bodyhot flashes).
The average woman will experience a perimenopausal period of about 4 years, but this will certainly vary for everyone. If you have prepared yourself to deal with all the symptoms of menopause that exist then when entering these times, the disturbances and changes in body functions that occur are not too bad.
