Women's Day: What Causes Painful Periods, Or Dysmenorrhoea? Know Ways To Prevent Menstrual Cramps

Women's Day 2024: Primary period pain, the most common type of menstrual cramps, is not caused by any disease or condition, but due to the release of excess prostaglandins.

Women's Day 2024: Painful period or menstruation is known as dysmenorrhoea. The symptoms of dysmenorrhoea include nausea, headaches, lower back pain, diarrhoea, and abdominal cramps. Dysmenorrhoea can be primary or secondary. ( Image Source :Getty )

International Women's Day 2024: Several women of reproductive age experience severe pain during menstruation, or period, which refers to the normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman's monthly cycle. Painful period or menstruation is known as dysmenorrhoea. The symptoms of dysmenorrhoea include nausea, headaches, lower back pain, diarrhoea, and abdominal cramps.  One must not confuse premenstrual syndrome (PMS) for dysmenorrhoea. The former, which begins one to two weeks