Menstrual Pain: What to Do?

Brief overview Treatment: Exercise, heat, medicinal plants (lady’s mantle, yarrow, monk’s pepper, St. John’s wort), pain and antispasmodic medications, treatment of underlying condition Prevention: hormonal contraceptives, endurance sports, balanced diet. Causes: Contractions of the uterine muscles; primary period pain not due to disease, secondary period pain due to an underlying disease such as endometriosis When … Menstrual Pain: What to Do?

Caroverin

Products Medicines containing Caroverin are currently no longer available in many countries. Calmavérine is out of commerce. Structure and properties Caroverin (C22H27N3O2, Mr = 365.5 g/mol) Effects Caroverin (ATC A03AX11) is spasmolytic on smooth muscle with predominantly musculotropic effects. Indications Spasms of the gastrointestinal tract, biliary tract, urinary tract, and female genital tract in dysmenorrhea. … Caroverin

Endometriosis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Endometriosis is a growth of the lining of the uterus that exclusively affects women due to the symptoms and disease confinement in the uterine area based on the determining anatomical features. What is endometriosis? Schematic diagram showing the anatomy and structure of female reproductive organs and the potential sites of endometriosis. Click to enlarge. In … Endometriosis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Home Remedies for Menstrual Cramps

Under the collective term menstrual cramps, various physical, psychological and psycho-somatic complaints are summarized, which can occur in women of childbearing age before and during the period. The most common are PMS, premenstrual syndrome, and dysmenorrhea, the so-called period pain. For the treatment of these and other complaints there are some methods and medicines both … Home Remedies for Menstrual Cramps

Nimesulid

Products Nimesulide is commercially available as tablets and granules (Nisulide, Aulin). It has been approved in many countries since 1991. Nisulide gel is no longer available. Structure and properties Nimesulide (C13H12N2O5S, Mr = 308.3 g/mol) belongs to the sulfonanilide group. It exists as a yellowish crystalline powder that is practically insoluble in water. Effects Nimesulide … Nimesulid

Flurbiprofen

Products Flurbiprofen is commercially available as dragées (Froben) and as flurbiprofen lozenges and spray (Strepsils Dolo, generics). It has been approved in many countries since 1977. Structure and properties Flurbiprofen (C15H13FO2, Mr = 244.2 g/mol) is a racemate and exists as a white crystalline powder that is practically insoluble in water. Flurbiprofen, like the structurally … Flurbiprofen

Menstrual Migraine

Symptoms Menstrual migraine is a migraine without aura that typically occurs 2 days before to the 3rd day of menstruation Two forms are distinguished, first, menstrual migraine that occurs exclusively on these days and second, migraine that also, but not exclusively, occurs on these days. Causes The causes are not yet fully understood. Estrogen withdrawal … Menstrual Migraine

Clidinium Bromide

Products Clidinium bromide is commercially available in the form of dragées in combination with chlordiazepoxide (Librax). It has been approved in many countries since 1961. Structure and properties Clidinium bromide (C22H26BrNO3, Mr = 432.4 g/mol) Effects Clidinium bromide (ATC A03CA02) has anticholinergic and spasmolytic properties on smooth muscle. Indications In combination with chlordiazepoxide: Gastrointestinal or … Clidinium Bromide

Dysmenorrhea

Menstrual cramps are not imaginary. Science has long since discovered what, according to estimates, causes almost every third woman and even every second girl to suffer month after month: prostaglandins are the name of the culprits. In the following, we will enlighten you about the causes of menstrual pain. More than half of all women … Dysmenorrhea