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Medical Video: 10 Things You May Not Know About Your Period | Ingrid Nilsen
Menstruation has many other names, ranging from menstruation, "again get", "monthly guests", to months, or some other strange euphemism that only serves to confuse and hide the natural processes that every woman goes through every month. Understanding menstruation and women's health is important for overall well-being, but many basic facts are still unknown. Below, we will uncover some of the most surprising and interesting facts about menstruation.
1. The average blood loss is less than one glass
Generally, women only lose between a few tablespoons to 1 glass of blood each cycle - each woman can be different.
The average amount of blood lost every cycle reaches 30-40 ml, 9 out of 10 women can lose less than 80 ml of blood each time. Severe menstruation can lose 60-80 ml of blood or more each cycle.
2. You are born with enough eggs for a lifetime
Women are born with approximately one to two million immature eggs (or follicles) in their ovaries. Most of these follicles will die as women grow, and only about 400 will reach the mature stage.
3. Menstrual blood is not dirty blood
Menstrual blood is not dirty blood, as long as it has been trusted. Menstrual blood is actually no different from a bleeding wound in the knee or nosebleed blood. It's just that menstrual blood contains residual tissue from the uterine wall that decays after the ovulation process.
4. You will not be attacked by sharks if you swim in the sea during menstruation
This is just a myth. There have never been recorded reports related to shark attacks caused by menstruating women. Reporting from Outside Online, the amount of blood produced during menstruation is very small (see point 1) and will be covered by thousands of other components in the water.
Sharks are attracted to amino acids in your blood. Amino acids, building blocks of protein, are also present in sweat and urine. Even if you produce three times the amino acid by sweating, urinating, and from menstruation when swimming in the ocean, the amount of amino acids you release does not have any effect once this acid dissolves in water, said Chris Lowe, head of California State University , Long Beach's Shark Lab.
Sharks will rely on other senses, including vision, sound, and electroreception, to track you. One more thing to understand, the chances of sharks attacking humans are more based on feelings of fear and threatened, not because they smell your blood or think you are an easy prey.
5. Your sex drive will be higher during menstruation
Levels of libido You can accelerate very high during your period due to decreased estrogen and progesterone hormones. Interested in having sex during menstruation?
6. You can still get pregnant during menstruation
Although the possibilities are very small, don't make this a reason not to use protection during sex.
7. Hormone IUDs can make menstruation absent for a full year
Contraceptive hormone IUDs can prevent you from having a period at all during the first year of use. However, the normal menstrual cycle and fertility will return to normal at the end of the year after one year removing the IUD.
Contrary to the myths circulating, IUDs do not cause infertility. Some IUD brands cause lighter menstruation (for some women, not even having periods at all) because hormones in the device, and hormones can last up to 3-10 years, depending on what device you choose. Even so, after the IUD is removed, your body will begin to regulate itself again and normal fertility will return in the first year.
8. Vicarious menstruation, menstruation from all holes in the body
Woman who has vicarious menstruation experience monthly bleeding not only from the uterus, but also from other parts of the body. Many women report removing blood from their nose, arms, lungs, breast, digestive tract, mouth, bladder, eyes and mouth each month following their menstrual cycle, and will subside after a few days.
9. The ancient Greeks had ritual bloodshed inspired by menstruation
They believe menstruation is the way the body removes diseased blood. The ritual of bloodshed - a process very similar to menstruation in women - was prescribed by ancient Greek physicians to cure all diseases, but caused great damage. George Washington was suspected of dying from losing a lot of blood, equivalent to seven cans of soda, which was drained from his body from this ritual.
10. In the past century, girls were banned from entering college because of menstruation
People consider menstrual blood to flow to the brain which can permanently damage the reproductive system of the woman, so that it eventually causes her to conceive a disabled and sickly child.
11. Menstrual blood is considered a healer
Throughout world history, menstrual blood is considered an effective antidote for various diseases such as epilepsy, hemorrhoids, mumps, warts, or ordinary headaches.
Reports also claim that in medieval times menstrual blood was used in ritual exorcism. People believe that the first handkerchief used by a virgin girl during the first menstruation can cure an epidemic.
12. There is a film
In 1946, Disney released The Story of Menstruation as a topic for sex education classes. Many claim that this film is the first film to use the word "vagina".
