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Abnormal Vaginal Bleedings

Every healthy woman of fertile age experiences the monthly bleedings from her vagina that are called menstruations. There are some other possible extractions from vagina during the period considered completely normal. It is a liquid that has no smell and of transparent or whitish color. Such extraction is also completely normal – this is the way the vagina cleans itself. Special glands in vaginal and uterine walls produce this liquid. The vaginal extractions in the time of breastfeeding, ovulation or sexual thrill are also quite normal. Abnormal vaginal bleeding is considered any bleeding that performs between the menstruations or is extremely strong.

Uterine bleeding usually occurs when there is some pathological state of female intimate health. As a woman herself cannot determine the reason of bleeding, uterine bleedings perform themselves as vaginal bleedings. Menstrual bleeding is considered to be physiological only if it lasts 7 days and occurs one in 25 days. Sometimes light bloody extraction are possible during the ovulation.

Here are the main mechanisms of uterine bleeding development:

  1. The hormonal imbalance in the co-operation of the elements in chain “hypothalamus-hypophysis- ovaries-endometrium”.
  2.  Structural, inflammatory and other gynecological pathologies (tumors too).
  3. The pathology of the blood clotting process.

When is it time to ask for medical help? In cases when the menstruations last more than 7 days, if they occur oftener than once in 25 days, if bleeding occurs between the periods and if the amount of blood is bigger than usual. A lot of dangerous pathologies can be diagnosed on the earlier stage and cured successfully if to visit best gynecologist in queens at once as you have noticed something suspicious. The treatment of bleedings depends on reasons of their appearance. Its conservative variant includes preparations for better blood clotting and hormonal medications, if it does not work – the surgical intrusion is required.