About 80% of women experience cramps and pains during their menstruation. When you are struggling with period pain, your food can help or hurt. It would be helpful to know what to eat during your periods to reduce pain.

Menstruation (also called period) is normal vaginal bleeding that occurs every month. It comes as part of a woman’s monthly cycle.

Every month, the body prepares itself for a possible pregnancy. At the onset of a monthly cycle, egg cells start developing in the ovaries. At the mid-cycle, an egg gets released from the ovaries via a process called ovulation in readiness for fertilisation.

If the woman has sex during that period and the released egg gets fertilised by a sperm cell, implantation begins, and so does the journey of pregnancy.

However, if pregnancy does not occur, the woman’s body sheds the released egg alongside the endometrium (inner walls of the uterus). Shedding of the uterus causes bleeding during a menstrual cycle. This means the menstrual blood is a combination of blood and tissue from the uterus.

For a woman that is not pregnant, the period bleeding should come every month (an average of 28 days). However, there are cases where monthly periods are absent (amenorrhea) or irregular (oligomenorrhea).

If you have been through puberty and experience absence of or irregular menstruation, you should see a doctor for proper diagnosis as many things can be the cause.

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