What is Premenstrual Syndrome?

For Hippocrates, the Greek medical scholar of antiquity, some suffering from nervous diseases certain women of his time, kept a mysterious connection with the operation of the female sexual organs, particularly the menstrual cycle and expressed his certainty, baptizing one of these disorders as hysteria, word from hysteros, which means womb in Greek.

But beyond this criterion, which shows the clinical eye of the great Hippocrates, and a whiff of macho, it was verified that three out of four women who suffer physical symptoms and / or psychological in the days before menstruation. Is what is known as premenstrual syndrome.

Symptoms of PMS
For some specialists, these annoyances appear in any of the days between ovulation-day 13 or 14 of a regular cycle of 29 or 30 days, and the onset of menstruation, although other doctors talk about that last only a week, starting two or three days before the bleeding and concluding with him.

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

Obviously, this syndrome is typical of women of childbearing age, especially those between 25 and 35. It also says that the severity of symptoms increases with age.

The syndrome is manifested with different intensity levels and the most ruthless of all is called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) in which treatment is needed to appeal to hormone supplements, birth control pills and antidepressants.

Still unaware of the specific causes that trigger it, but it comes to certain circumstances such as traumatic births and that the genetic factor (inheritance) is responsible for between 30 and 40% of cases.
Rosa Mañas

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