The aim of this study was to determine the influence of menstruation on the bacterial population of healthy Japanese women's vulvas, especially the labia minora. Labia minora swabs were obtained from 10 premenopausal, nonpregnant Japanese women at premenstruation and on day 2 of menstruation. Vaginal swabs were also obtained from 3 out of the 10 women. No significant difference was found in the...

Edgar Allen was the first investigator to demonstrate that uterine bleeding, or menstruation, could be induced in rhesus monkeys by withdrawal of estrogenic hormone. Hormone withdrawal was accomplished by removal of one or both ovaries, by injury to a large follicle, or by cessation of injections of estrogen in a castrate animal. The previous work of Corner3 had shown that the monkey is a suita...

BACKGROUND Menstruation is a natural physiological process that requires proper management. Unlike other normal bodily processes, menstruation is linked with religious and cultural meanings that can affect the perceptions of young girls as well as the ways in which the adults in the communities around them respond to their needs. OBJECTIVES This review aims to answer the following questions: ...

intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and skills. autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (asd). teenagers with learning and physical disabilities are more likely to have menstrual problems compared to the general populations. the parents of a 12-year-old girl with autism spectr...

conclusions according to our results, by omitting probable risk factors of incidence of sore throat and evaluation of role of hormonal changes in women represented in menstrual cycles, there was no significant association between menstrual cycle and sore throat incidence. results of 100 patients, in the first six hours, 51 patients had sore throat and 49 had no pain. during the first 6 hours, 3...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between menarcheal timing and both menarcheal experience and attitudes toward menstruation in Mexican girls. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTINGS Sample of adolescents attending 10 different public schools. PARTICIPANTS Mexican postmenarcheal adolescents, aged 11-16 years. INTERVENTION Participants answered 1 questionnaire about menarcheal e...

BACKGROUND Research in the past decade has revealed average to poor menstrual health among many Iranian girls. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a health promotion project on improving menstrual health in adolescent girls in Iran. METHODS A quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the health intervention program. A total of 698 students (study ...

A good deal of data are available on the bowel habits of pre-climacteric females during menstruation. Few studies have examined the same subject in females of climacteric age but who are still menstruating, so the present study was undertaken to examine the bowel habits in menstruating females in this age group. Subjects (n = 246) were residents of a city in northern Japan, aged from 45 to 55 y...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of a copper-intrauterine device (IUD) on uterine artery blood flow during the midluteal phase and on the first day of the menstrual cycle using pulsed colour Doppler ultrasonography. Twenty-one regularly menstruating women (18-45 years) who were willing to use copper-IUD contraception participated in the study. The patients were first examined wit...

[Purpose] This study aimed to clarify the relationship between menstrual-associated symptoms and lifestyle in female judo athletes by menstrual period. [Participants Methods] One hundred sixty-nine players aged 18 21 years were surveyed using a questionnaire consisting of profile, practice, lifestyle, on menstruation-related (MDQ). [Results] The results showed negative correlation total score M...