Category Archives: Genital

Hot flashes

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The mechanism of hot flashes

The hot flashes in women, are most commonly associated with menopause . Normally, the Agency maintains its body temperature around 37 ° C. This figure should be constant, it is essential to life.

This figure of 37 ° C is maintained in part due to changes in blood flow to the skin: if the body is heating (external heat, muscular exercise, fever) and subcutaneous vessels will dilate so that more blood runs under the skin and allow cooling. It also produces a sweat , because evaporation of water (sweat) on the surface of the skin will lower body temperature.

The estrogens that are ovarian hormones involved in regulating body temperature. At the time of menopause the balance between the rates of the various hormones secreted by the ovaries is changed. The secretion of estrogen decreases, and influence the mechanism of regulation of body temperature and causes hot flashes. Continue reading →

Endometriosis

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The endometriosis is a disease common in women , sometimes disabling and is often diagnosed late. It is represented by the abnormal presence of uterine lining outside the light of the uterus .

Normally, the action of the hormone cycle, the uterine lining that lines the inside of the uterus prepares each month to receive a fertilized egg by a sperm . If this is not the case, the mucosal bleeding and separates from the lining of the uterus, it is exhausted to the outside: what are the rules. Continue reading →

Premenstrual syndrome

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Premenstrual syndrome is cyclical

The premenstrual syndrome ( PMS ) is represented by events occurring in certain benign cyclic women before the rules .

The disorder usually appear in the week before the onset of menstruation, and disappear rapidly with them.

It is a subjective condition and its frequency is difficult to determine accurately. Many women of reproductive age experience discomfort before their periods, but few of them have a PMS itself.

This syndrome is most pronounced from 35 years and it disappears at the menopause as there is more rules so more cycles.

In severe forms, the hard times can last two weeks, disorders occurring in the middle of the cycle, at the time of ovulation until the first days of menstruation, clinical signs are pronounced. Continue reading →