Why can’t you use essential oils during menstruation? What shouldn’t you do during menstruation?

　　Essential oil is a commonly used defensive medicine in daily life. By extracting the essence of tea tree, it can have a good refreshing effect and make you instantly rejuvenated. but female When using essential oils, avoid menstrual periods because using essential oils during menstruation can cause physical discomfort. So why can’t you use essential oils during menstruation? What should not be done during menstruation? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

　　Why can’t you use essential oils during menstruation?

　　For women, menstruation is the most sensitive period of the body. During menstruation, the body's resistance will decrease. If essential oils are used, it will conflict with menstruation, which may affect the normal discharge of menstruation. It may lead to an increase in blood volume. In serious cases, bleeding may occur, or menstruation may be delayed. Therefore, it is generally recommended that women not use essential oils during menstruation.

　　It is recommended that if women want to use essential oils, it is best to start using it 7 days after the end of menstruation. If it is used 2 to 3 days after the end of menstruation, it may cause menstruation to come again. In addition, women who have the habit of using essential oils on a daily basis are advised to stop using them three days before the next menstrual period.

　　What should not be done during menstruation?

　　1. It is not suitable to take a sitz bath

　　During menstrual period, the cervix is ​​slightly open, and sitz baths and tub baths can easily allow sewage to enter the uterine cavity and cause inflammation of the reproductive organs.

　　2. Don’t eat too much salt

　　Eating too much salt will increase the salt and water storage in the body, leading to symptoms such as headache, agitation, and irritability on the eve of menstruation. You should start eating low-salt foods 10 days before menstruation.

　　3. Not suitable for sexual life

　　During menstruation, the endometrium falls off and forms a wound on the surface of the uterine cavity. Bacteria can easily be brought retrogradely into the uterus during daily life, causing intrauterine infection, adnexitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease。

　　4. It is not advisable to sing loudly

　　During menstrual period, the respiratory mucosa of women is congested, and the vocal cords are also congested. When singing or speaking loudly, the vocal cord muscles are easily fatigued and may lead to glottis misalignment and hoarseness. However, there is no need to be too nervous. In most cases, singing karaoke and speaking with a normal voice should not be a problem. However, if you sing at high pitches for a long time or challenge high-range songs, it may cause vocal cord injuries.

　　5. Not suitable for drinking alcohol

　　Before and during menstruation, women are affected by hormone secretion, and the activity of decomposing enzymes in the body is low, and the ability to metabolize alcohol decreases. As a result, alcohol is not easily excreted from the blood quickly, but becomes an "acidic substance" that is harmful to the body. In order to remove these acidic substances, the liver must continuously produce enzymes. As a result, the burden on the liver will be increased, increasing the possibility of liver dysfunction.

　　6. It is not advisable to eat foods with cold properties

　　It is not advisable to eat some foods with cold properties, such as ice products, winter melon, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, oranges, pears, grapefruit, watermelon, etc. In addition, it is not advisable to eat sour foods, such as sour plums, unripe sour fruits, or some spicy foods, such as fried foods, chili peppers, peppers, mustard, etc. You should also avoid eating them during menstruation to avoid causing poor blood flow.

　　7. It is not advisable to wear tight pants

　　Many women choose to wear tight underwear during their menstrual period. They believe that this can not only avoid the embarrassment of side leakage, but also alleviate it to a certain extent. stomach ache , in fact, this is unscientific. If women often wear tight underwear, especially during the menstrual period, it will easily cause the flow of menstrual blood to be blocked, and when they are taken off, the pressure in the pelvic and abdominal cavity will suddenly change, which can easily lead to reflux of menstrual blood, and eventually symptoms of menstrual back pain, abdominal pain, and even lead to infertility . Therefore, it is best for women to choose looser underwear during menstruation.

　　8. Don’t drink strong tea

　　When the menstrual period comes, because menstrual blood will consume a lot of iron in the body at this time, female friends should supplement more iron-rich fruits and vegetables at this time, such as spinach, Grape and apples and other fruits. However, if you are accustomed to drinking tea when you are full at this time, the tea contains up to 50% tannic acid, which will hinder the absorption of iron by our intestinal mucosa and greatly reduce the degree of iron absorption. Therefore, it is easy to precipitate with the iron in the chyme or the iron stones in the blood tonic in the intestines.

　　9. Don’t beat your back

　　Beating the waist and back can further congest the pelvic cavity and accelerate blood flow, causing Menorrhagia Or prolonged menstruation. In addition, many women will experience severe back pain during menstruation, and may choose to have others massage or do it themselves to relieve waist fatigue and soreness. Experts say that it is very normal for women to experience backache during menstruation, which is caused by pelvic congestion. Blindly massaging or beating the waist at this time will make the pelvic congestion more serious, which will in turn worsen the backache.

　　10. It is not advisable to extract teeth

　　Menstruation is a physiological change unique to women. In addition to maintaining female characteristics and reproductive functions, this change often affects the bleeding and coagulation mechanisms of human blood. According to research, platelets will change greatly during menstruation. They often decrease on the first day of menstruation and do not rise back to the original number until the third or fourth day. human body during menstruation Uterus The endometrium can release more tissue-activating substances, which can activate plasminogen in the blood into plasmin with anticoagulant effects, increasing the body's tendency to bleed. Therefore, surgery or tooth extraction during the menstrual period may cause more bleeding.