Do you always feel sick before your period? Here’s why

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Emerging research suggests that the immune system can fluctuate during this time, sometimes exacerbating underlying chronic disease symptoms or creating new ones that some women may mistake as signs of a new illness.

Just before a period, for instance, some women report symptoms typically associated with the flu, like body aches, malaise and even fever. This so-calledisn’t caused by an actual pathogen, said Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, a gynaecologist at N.Y.U. Langone Health. But it can be the result of a person’s immune response to natural inflammation as the uterus cramps and sheds cells. “It’s how your body perceives the inflammation,” she said.

Hormones may also be to blame for these symptoms, Dr. Shirazian said. Luteinizing hormone, or L.H., surges just before ovulation and then sharply drops when a period starts, she said. As L.H. levels shift, people can experience fatigue, bloating, headaches and nausea. “Some women go through this with really aggressive symptoms every cycle, every month,” Dr. Shirazian said.

This, said Sabra Klein, a microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, could be the result of seesawing hormones and immune system changes over the course of a period. Other research has found that between 19 and 40 per cent of women with asthma have reported more intense and frequent asthma flare-ups or attacks right before or during their periods.

, as it’s called, has been linked to increases in asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations, including intubations.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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