Menopause: symptoms of the menopause

The symptoms of the menopause change depending on the woman, nevertheless there exist certain factors that almost all the woman have jointly.

The menopause affects the woman of diverse forms, the weakening of the pelvic soil is habitual in this period. Nowadays it thinks that more than 8 million women in Spain are happening or happened for the menopause. As we were saying it is a question of an event of the life of the woman in which there take place important hormonal changes that intervene in many aspects of his health. The middle ages in which the woman enters this period, according to some recent studies, they are 48 years.

The blushes are the most common reason for which the women come to the doctor and decide to prove hormonal substitute therapies. ” Undoubtedly the oestrogens diminish the symptoms in 80 % or 90 % and are considered to be the treatment of choice “, makes clear the gynaecologist Gema García Gálvez, expert of centradaenti of TENA Lady and coordinator of the Unit of Pelvic Soil of the Hospital Quirón Madrid.

 Symptoms of the menopause

The fall of the production of oestrogens during the menopause also sympathetic on the fabric of the urethra, which provokes urinary incontinence. A symptom that affects 25 % of the women during the menopause. ” The incontinence is a problem of health with great importance for the quality of life, the daily activities and the interpersonal relations “, emphasizes Dra. García Gálvez.

Besides the urinary incontinence, the prolapses and the deterioration of the sexual relations are the most habitual consequences of the weakening of the pelvic soil. The progressive aging of this part of the feminine body, joined the fall of the production of oestrogens on the part of the ovaries, they favor the alterations of the pelvic soil.

If to these symptoms we add that almost all the women have happened for one or two pregnancies and childbirths, that already we know that they damage the pelvic soil; we can deal why, about 50 years, the woman must put special attention in the care and the prevention of his pelvic soil. The physical exercise increases considerably the quality of life from 50 years.

When the women know and understand the alterations that his body is suffering, the distresses and the fears disappear, it is easier to learn to live with these changes and increases his quality of life.

Advices to confront the symptoms of the menopause

1. To use several caps of clothes to dress, this way you can take the clothes from you if you acaloras or you suffer blushes.

2. To have a routine of dream, that is to say: to sleep and to get up at the same hour to avoid sleep disorders.

3. To realize some physical activity, it helps to anticipate the depression and the anxiety.

4. To avoid to take caffeine and stimulants from half an evening.

5. To take care of everything what supposes abdominal hyperpressure as the increase of weight or the chronic constipation.

6. To consult a specialist in order that it advises you a suitable and personalized treatment.

Workshop Pelvic Soil In the frame of the Volvo Ocean Race

TENA Lady has organized a workshop to reveal the importance of the pelvic soil in the health of the woman. Two physical therapists will be the managers of giving this workshop that will be formed by the first theoretical part and another practice.

Ana Gómez, physical therapist of the Clinic Atlas of Alicante and a physical therapist of his equipment will speak on the importance of the pelvic soil, how to take care of it it and how to anticipate future problems. In addition, there will be announced the principal reasons of his weakening and his consequences.

Later, the assistants will discover how to strengthen the pelvic soil across practical exercises directed by physical therapists.