When a cycle is established in adolescents
When a cycle is established in adolescents
Most adolescent girls, sooner or laterface one of the important stages of their growing - the first menstruation or menarche. However, the regular menstrual cycle is not fixed immediately. What determines its formation in adolescents?
Instructions
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Menarche - logically correct completionpuberty girls. As a rule, the first menstruation occurs at the age of 11-13 years. Menstrual cycle is a signal that informs about the full preparation of the girl for the upcoming pregnancy.
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At the age of the appearance of the first menstruation and theirregularity directly affect: - physical development and physique (obesity or lack of weight); - hereditary predisposition; - the transferred diseases (craniocerebral traumas, virus infections, STIs); - Abuse of alcoholic beverages and smoking, drug addiction; - early onset of sexual intercourse; - endocrine and gynecological pathology; - intensive physical activity; - taking certain groups of medicines.
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The first menstruation is quite plentiful, butshort-lived (2-7 days). Full regular ovulatory cycles are fully formed in a year and a half after menarche. The lack of regular ovulation in adolescent girls is often associated with hormonal changes in the body and unfinished sexual and physical development. The most frequent cause of instability of the cycle is the insufficient amount of progesterone responsible for the timely rejection of the uterine mucosa. If the reason for the absence of ovulation or regularity of the cycle is any disease or pathological condition, an experienced gynecologist by hormonal stimulation can solve this problem.
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The average menstrual cycle inadolescents lasts more than 40 days (for comparison, the cycle of a sexually mature woman is 21-35 days). In the first few years after the onset of menarche, menstruation is lengthy and often anovulatory. Every year, the fluctuations in figures decrease, approaching 28-38 days, and by the age of 19-20 the regularity of the menstrual cycle is completely stabilized.
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There are a number of diseases and conditions affectingon the establishment of a cycle in adolescents: - chronic stress conditions; - Oncological diseases of the pituitary, hypothalamus, adrenal, ovaries; - Endocrine pathologies (Isenko-Cushing syndrome, thyroid disease); anorexia or bulimia; - Frequent excessive physical activity.
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To determine the physiological causes of absenceregularity of the cycle in adolescents or pathological changes, doctors recommend each girl to control the time of onset of menstruation, the abundance of discharge, the presence of pain in the lower abdomen.
