Volume : 7, Issue : 4, April - 2018

DYSMENORRHOEA AMONG TEEN AGE GROUP GIRLS-A BURNING ISSUE

Dr Satya Ranjan Das

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Dysmenorrhoea is the most common gynecologic complaint among adolescent and young adult females. Aim of the study was to the prevalence of</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dysmenorrhoea among</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> teen girls (13 to 19) year&rsquo;s patients presenting with menorrhagia or without menorrhagia. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was 65.11%. Majority of the girls with dysmenorrhea (58.03%) report a menstrual cycle of 22-28 days, where as 33.03 % of them have a menstrual cycle of 29-35 days and 8.9% report to have a menstrual cycle of more than 35 days. Maximum number of dysmenorrhic girls (78.6 % ) report 4-5 days of bleeding and few of them reported to have &lt;3 days and 5-7 days of bleeding (8.9% and 12.5% respectively ). 67.8% of the girls with dysmenorrhea reported presence of blood clots in their menstrual flow.<span style="color:#212121">Dysmenorrhoea is a very common problem among adolescent girls, and they experience a number of physical and emotional symptoms associated with dysmenorrhea and it also affects their quality of life.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>