Background: Menstruation is a natural and physiologic process that is managed based on various socio-cultural habits and behaviors. Cultural beliefs about menstruation can improve or worsen menstrual health behavior. The present study aimed to explore the cultural beliefs about menstrual health in Bam city, Iran. Materials and Methods: This is a qualitative study with Directed Content Analysis...

an increasing incidence of medical complications. Among these are menstrual disorders, including a delay in the onset of menstruation, oligoor amenorrhoea, and inadequacy of progesterone secretion during the luteal phase of the cycle. At first, only sporadic accounts of such disturbances appeared, suggesting that pre-existing functional derangements of cyclicity were likely to be responsible. H...

Porphyria is a group of disorders caused by the accumulation of porphyrin and porphyrin precursors due to the abnormalities in certain enzymes that normally participate in the production of haem. We report a case of a woman with severe menstruation-related abdominal pain, hyponatraemia, and psychiatric symptoms. Excessive porphobilinogen was found in her urine. A new mutation in intron 2 (IVS2-...

in some anecdotal sources, reports on defect of women`s faith is quoted. existence of such hadiths and inappropriate behavior of some men with women in islamic societies is become a pretext which triggered the islamic opponents and claim that islamic laws are against women. the precise study of exact meanings of words and concepts of these hadiths will eliminate misgivings about islam and women...

Menopause is a period of cessation menstruation caused by decrease in the hormones estrogen and progesterone causing several symptoms that occur such as night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes, anxiety, fatigue, depression, memory disorders (senility), urogenital symptoms, urinary (dysuria), painful intercourse (dyspareunia). This causes discomfort climacteric women, to reduce discomfort, processed...

Introduction: In recent studies, it has been suggested that anxiety about body image increases during menstruation in adolescents and may affect nutritional status. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between adolescents' images, perceptions anthropometric measurements menstrual non-menstrual time periods. Methods: cross-sectional was carried out a private high school September-Novemb...

The majority of autoimmune diseases predominate in females. In searching for an explanation for this female excess, most attention has focused on hormonal changes--both exogenous changes (for example, oral contraceptive pill) and fluctuations in endogenous hormone levels particularly related to menstruation and pregnancy history. Other reasons include genetic differences, both direct (influence...

Background: Currently, there is no up-to-date survey on actual menstruation, including recent changes in the amount of menstrual blood loss women as age first menstruation decreases Japan. Also, few study has examined whether temperature clothing reflecting with basal body and other factors are related to menstruation-associated symptoms. Purpose: The aimed determine change number sanitary napk...

Introduction. Typical and atypical antipsychotic agent is currently used for treatment in the majority of patients with psychotic disorders. The aim of this review is to assess antipsychotic induced hyperprolactinaemia and the following menstrual dysfunction that affects fertility, quality of life, and therapeutic compliance of women. Method. For this purpose, Medline, PsychInfo, Cochrane libra...

background: various uterine disorders lead to infertility in women of reproductive ages. this study was performed to describe common uterine causes of infertility and sonographic evaluation of them for midwives.   methods:to study the literatures, manuscripts published at “pubmed”, “elsevier”, “google scholar”, “sid” and original text books, between 1985 and 2015, were carefully reviewed, using...