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: the pilgrimage to ka’beh (god’s house in mecca) is a special opportunity in the life of most muslims. female pilgrims try to postpone menstruation during the pilgrimage by taking hormonal medicines. however, women are seen in this disorder. this paper aimed to determine the frequency of menstrual disorders and related factors among female pilgrims of umrah mufradah in 2012.methods...

The gonadal function of patients with Turner syndrome (TS) is variable. Individuals with mosaicism characterized by 45,X/46,XX or 45,X/47,XXX are more likely to experience spontaneous menarche compared with other karyotypes. Prepubertal gonadotropins of TS patients with spontaneous menarche are reportedly normal or significantly lower than those of patients with induced menarche. The present st...

The complex tissue remodeling process of menstruation is experienced by humans and some primates, whereas most placental mammals, including mice, go through an estrous cycle. How menstruation and the underlying mechanisms evolved is still unknown. Here we demonstrate that the process of menstruation is not just species-specific but also depends on factors which can be induced experimentally. In...

background: polycystic ovary syndrome and oligomenorrhea which is one of its complications are considered as the most common causes of menstrual disorders which increases the risk of depression and psychological effects complications. the prevalence of oligomenorrhea is predicted to be 12 to 15 percent. this syndrome occurs with symptoms such as obesity, impaired glucose metabolism, dysmenorrhe...

Cleansing or curse? Menstruation in our lifetime has been commonly called ‘The Curse’. Our sisters in the 16th century, however, welcomed this cleansing as a fertility sign from God, through the moon that determined the tides of all that flowed on the earth. These tides included the four humorous fluids that made up each of us and determined, by balance, the health of an individual. Ancient med...

“The pituitary has an intrinsic rhythm of small amplitude with a frequency of every two to ten minutes. Superimposed on this intrinsic rhythm is a rhythm caused by the pulsatile release of hypophysiotropic releasing factors, with or without the withdrawal of a corresponding inhibitory factor. Rhythms that are shorter than a day are referred to as ultradian rhythms. The next layer of rhythmicity...

C.v.B. is a girl who was born of psychopathic criminal and, in all probability, mentally subnormal parents. Her mental and physical development was backward from birth; at the age of 4 she could walk but did not speak. Earlier data are lacking. She stayed in several children's homes, and from the age of 9 she was in the Institution for Mentally Deficient Children in Noordwijk. At the age of 1 1...

N.F. Santoro and G. Neal-Perry (eds.), Amenorrhea: A case-Based, clinical Guide, Contemporary endocrinology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-60327-864-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Menstruation is a result of the profound tissue remodeling that occurs each month in reproductive-aged women. After withdrawal of steroid hormone support, the functionalis layer of the endometrium undergoes exte...

Traditional healing rituals in many parts of the world seem to derive from a model of cyclical renewal provided in the first instance by menstruation. Health is seen as dependent upon a correct balance between polar opposite states such as 'heat' and 'cold','dryness' and 'wetness' etc. Nature seems to achieve such balance by alternating regularly between opposites such as night and day, wet sea...