Is it normal for menstrual period to be bright red? Do you know these?

Menstruation is also called period, which every woman will experience when she reaches a certain age. Menstruation refers to the blood that flows out of the uterus every month, which can expel waste from the body and allow the body to excrete new blood. But in life, some women have bright red menstrual blood. Is this normal? What is the normal color of menstrual period?

Since menstruation is a special physiological cycle, we should pay attention to it in our daily life. During menstruation, you should avoid strenuous exercise, such as high jump and running. Because this will induce or aggravate physical discomfort, you should also drink more boiled water and avoid strong tea. Because strong tea contains high caffeine, it can stimulate the nerves and cardiovascular system, and can easily cause dysmenorrhea, prolonged menstruation or excessive bleeding.

More importantly, you should not have sexual intercourse during this period because the endometrium is exfoliated during menstruation, leaving fresh wounds in the uterine cavity. If you have sexual intercourse at this time, you may bring in bacteria and cause inflammation of the reproductive organs. It may also increase the amount of menstrual blood or prolong the menstrual period. Please keep this in mind.

Usually, symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue may occur during menstruation. At this time, it is advisable to choose foods that are beneficial to the skin and beauty, such as lamb, chicken, red dates, tofu skin, apples, coix seed, beef, milk, eggs, brown sugar, motherwort, angelica, rehmannia, peach blossoms, etc.

Under normal circumstances, the menstrual cycle should be 3-7 days. If it exceeds or does not reach at least three days, it is abnormal and should be diagnosed and treated.

Menstrual blood is a mixture of blood and some shed endometrial lining, cervical mucus and vaginal secretions. The color of menstrual blood is dark, slightly sticky, and not easy to coagulate into blood clots. If you look closely, you will see small and thin fragments. Sometimes blood clots or black blood appear.

Normal menstruation is mostly dark red. If the menstrual blood is bright red, brown, light yellow, or black like a leaking roof, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine it is due to qi deficiency, cold or heat.