Studies on Menstruation

On Painful Menstruation

Influence of menstruation on glaucoma.

PREMENSTRUAL migraine and closed-angle glaucoma have many points of similarity: thus both may be provoked by the water-drinking test; all are more severe in the early morning; contributory factors precipitating attacks include emotional stress and fatigue; and in both there may be other systemic disturbances such as nausea, lethargy, and vertigo. The excitable temperament of patients with close...

Anemia: Does it Have Effect on Menstruation?

It is well known fact heavy and prolonged menses leads to anemia. But being anemic do have effect on menstrual cycle as well as menstrual problems. This study was done identify the same. This was a community based cross-sectional study in the rural field practice area of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur in the 600 adolescent girls. Information of details about menstruation was e...

What is menstruation for? On the projectibility of functional predicates in menstruation research

In 1993, biologist Margie Profet captured the attention of the popular press with the publication of her radical thesis: menstruation has a function. Traditional theories, she claims, typically view menstruation as a functionless by-product of cyclic flux. The details of Profet’s functional account are similarly radical: she argues that menstruation has been naturally selected to defend the fem...

Case of Vicarious Menstruation