Is it normal to have blood clots during your monthly period?
BLOOD CLOT – Here are some of the important things you should know about the blood clots you see while you’re on your period.
Menstruation or Menorrhagia (medical term) in women is a normal phase of bleeding that they go through every month. This is their body’s way to shed its lining if you’re not pregnant because every month, your body is preparing for pregnancy.
How does menstruating happen? The monthly bleeding happens when the buildup in the lining of the woman gets discarded. The blood and the tissue go out through the small opening in the cervix and eventually pass out of the body.
During this time of the month, most women probably notice that they have these blood clots coming out from them. These clots are a gel-like mixture of blood cells, tissue from the lining of the uterus, and proteins in the blood that regulates the flow.
Oftentimes, along with the blood clots is heavy menstrual bleeding or period pains. When the clots are only occasional and not larger than a quarter, there’s nothing to worry about usually. They are not dangerous like the clots that are formed in your veins.
Here are signs that menstrual clots becomes alarming:
- larger than a quarter in size
- very frequent
- happens with an abnormally heavy flow to the point that you need to change every 1 to 2 hours
- occurs with a significant pain
One of the major complications of blood clots during a monthly period as per an article from Healthline is iron deficiency anemia. Symptoms of anemia include fatigue, weakness, paleness, shortness of breath, and chest pain.
Uterine fibroids, endometriosis, adenomyosis, hormonal imbalances, miscarriage, and cesarian scar might be the possible causes. In other cases, but less likely to happen that can be a source of blood clots is cancer in the uterus or cervix.
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