How to overcome the effect of menopause

Once a woman is not menstruating again, emerging health problem turned out great. In addition to physical and psychological changes, a woman menopause are also at risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, dementia, and colon cancer.

A number of disturbing symptoms also frequently complained of women entering menopause, including hot blast in the face (hot flushes), insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, libido decrease, until the pain during intercourse.

“Menopausal women also experience psychological symptoms such as feeling unloved, wanting to end her life, irritability, and often forget,” said Prof. Med. Ali Baziad, SpOG, Professor of Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia in the seminar Latest Complaints Handling climacteric on Women, held by Society of Menopause Indonesia in Jakarta some time ago.

These problems commonly experienced when the woman entered the age of 48 to 52 years. Menopause is a time when women’s ovarian function decreases because bosit and primordial follicles have been exhausted and eventually stop producing eggs.
According to the doctor Ali, disturbances that accompanied the arrival of the menopause is an indirect or direct effects of reduced estrogen hormone that is essential in the female body.
If the hormone estrogen no longer produced, will appear a variety of health problems given the hormone estrogen strongly support the entire cellular system of the female body, from hair, eyes, skin, to the other physical organs.
Therefore, Prof. Ali stressed treatment menopausal problems is by adding hormone replacement via hormone replacement therapy.

“Imagine how much drug should be taken when each complaint given the drug. But of all complaints had drug is giving hormones to replace the missing hormone,” he explained.

So far, there are fears that hormone replacement therapy will be able to cause breast cancer, cardiovascular disease (heart), and liver disease.
In fact, according to Prof. Ali recent studies have found a type of estrogen hormone that is safer for the body.

“There are 10 types of estrogen, which is recommended for hormone replacement therapy is the same as existing naturally in the ovaries, namely estrogen type of drospirenone,” he said.

Ali added that hormone therapy should be started early menopause. In addition, women in old age are advised to maintain his lifestyle.

Setbacks such as osteoporosis can be overcome by continuing to exercise, do activity and bask in the sun for vitamin D is formed in the skin from sun light. Vitamin D is needed so that calcium is consumed can go into the bone and to keep the body healthy.