Menopause and its characteristics.

Community of @steemit the word menopause means etymologically cessation of the rules. The first thing to say about this condition is that it is completely natural. Upon reaching the appropriate age, every female representative on our planet experiences it. The main characteristic of the period after menopause is hormonal adjustment. The ovaries gradually stop producing the sex hormones estrogen.

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But this does not happen immediately: for about 2 years after the last menstruation, they still retain this function. However, then, in the absence of estrogen, many body systems begin to experience a lack of a hormone, which makes them vulnerable to pathological changes.

The physiological menopause usually appears between 50 and 55 years, being on average between 48 and 50 years.

Women with abundant and frequent rules tend to have delayed menopause, unlike those who have presented scant and delayed. In this sense, gynecological infections and unilateral extirpation of the ovaries intervene. We ignore what is the first cause of normal menopause, which must be in the normal decline of the ovary, with loss, first, of the secretion of progesterone and, later, of the feliculina. such change affects the entire hormonal system of women, particularly the pituitary gland.

**Artificial menopause: **is that caused voluntarily by the doctor, through reasonable and necessary interventions that require the removal of both ovaries, or by x-rays, in case of exaggerated activity or a tuberculous process.

Psycho-affective menopause: is due to sudden and violent impressions: loss of a loved one, deportation or others, because of the deep interrelation that exists between the ovary, the pituitary gland, the diencephalon, the cerebral cortex and the rest body organs.

Sexual menopause: It has been observed that single women become menopausal before the widows of a certain time and these, before married women of regular and normal life.

Other causes of advanced menopause they are mainly, any case of intellectual or physical excessive effort, food deficiencies and serious diseases.

The symptoms of menopause disorders usually doubt 2 to 4 years and affect three-quarters of women. the amenorrhea or sensation of the rules can be abrupt, suggesting a pregnancy; or stormy, with great menstrual irregularities, that make us think about cancer; or with a soft decline in all directions. hot flashes consist of vasomotor disorders of pituitary origin: at night the woman feels a wave of heat on her face, discomforting the covers of the bed; during the day suffers from sweaty crises, especially in hot weather or when entering hot places. He also experiences insomnia, palpitations and tingling in the extremities. there is a preposition to the condition of osteoarthritis, especially of the knee, and to have diabetic, hypertensive or hyperthyroid. Regarding the sexual impulse, this can be seen even increased in premenopause due to the reproduction of estrogens that is particular to it, and after menopause maintain perfectly with obtaining organs, since its primary and determinant causes especially psychic and affective.

The menopausal woman tends to swell and her silhouette to blur, while the chest loses height or increases due to the accumulation of fat. the pilosity increases, on the upper lip and the chin.

As for the character, some women become melancholy and sad, experiencing the desire to cry; others become irritable eccentrics. There are women, however, and they abound, who acquire a certain serenity and judgments that give them a stability that they did not possess before.

I hope it is useful to know how menopause is presented, the characteristics of its causes and symptoms.