{"id":1718,"date":"2020-09-30T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preco.tamk.fi\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2020-09-30T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T08:35:29","slug":"follow-the-menstrual-cycle-as-a-health-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/2020\/09\/30\/follow-the-menstrual-cycle-as-a-health-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the menstrual cycle as a health sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bleeding, cramping, mood swing, interfere with daily activities are some facts about how women mostly remember the menstrual cycle. The pattern of the menstrual cycle will usually take a woman`s attention when she misses one. It is difficult for some women to track the events of a normal menstrual cycle. Some of them only think about the menstrual cycle, when they want to plan an event or their holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acog.org\/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications\/Committee-Opinions\/Committee-on-Adolescent-Health-Care\/Menstruation-in-Girls-and-Adolescents-Using-the-Menstrual-Cycle-as-a-Vital-Sign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2015, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists emphasized to use the menstrual cycle as a vital sign (reaffirmed 2017)<\/a>. There is growing evidence that every woman needs fundamental knowledge about the menstrual cycle. The menstrual cycle patterns and fertility signs are recently the focus of interest <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00404-017-4294-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to shorten time-to-pregnancy, to determine the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle in the management of the subfertility<\/a>, or to help in the identification and management of gynecologic problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertility Signs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every woman needs to know how to identify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pattern of her menstrual cycle;<\/li>\n<li>Ovulation occurrence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By charting the initiation, duration and amount of the bleeding, a woman will be able to tell whether her menstrual cycle follows a normal and regular pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Menstrual cycles may occur regularly but not be considered fertile. Ovulation occurrence during a menstrual cycle determines the possibility of fertility. To be able to pinpoint the ovulation, a woman needs to distinguish between fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle. The general knowledge about the ovulation encompasses the understanding of changes in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cervical mucus;<\/li>\n<li>Cervical texture;<\/li>\n<li>Cervical location;<\/li>\n<li>Preovulatory opening of the endocervical canal;<\/li>\n<li>Basal Body Temperature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To sum up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman can use several methods to identify and interpret fertility signs or <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jpag.2013.12.001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">menstrual patterns<\/a> such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billings.life\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billings Ovulation Method<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creightonmodel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creighton Method<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.fertnstert.2007.12.069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preovulatory opening of the endocervical canal (pupil sign)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/btm2.10058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Basal Body Temperature (Coverline Method)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone-based approaches, home device technology for hormonal detection can be also used to follow events of the menstrual cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nava Rezaeinamini, BSc in Midwifery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Junior Researcher in Carinthia University of Applied Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleeding, cramping, mood swing, interfere with daily activities are some facts about how women mostly remember the menstrual cycle. The pattern of the menstrual cycle will usually take a woman`s attention when she misses one. It is difficult for some women to track the events of a normal menstrual cycle. Some of them only think<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/2020\/09\/30\/follow-the-menstrual-cycle-as-a-health-sign\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17903,"featured_media":1719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,70,68,69,20,66,65,64,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basal-body-temperature","category-cervical-location","category-cervical-mucus","category-cervical-texture","category-fertility","category-fertility-signs","category-health-sign","category-menstrual-cycle","category-ovulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webpages.tuni.fi\/preco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}