Nutrimed Labs: AMENORRHEA

Condition: AMENORRHEA

TREATMENT:

Correction of any mechanical obstruction, treatment of eating disorders and psychiatric illness must be considered along with proper diet, relief from stress and adequate Nutritional Therapy.

SUGGESTED NUTRITION:

Lipotrope #979
3 per day - Provides support to the liver in the processing of essential hormones.

Gyneplex #971
3 per day - Supports ovarian function. Aids preadolescent development.

Gonado-F #443
3 per day - Normalizes ovarian and uterine activity. Tends to promote growth of sex organs.

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PATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

Amenorrhea is considered primary when menarche is delayed beyond eighteen years of age; and secondary when there is a cessation of uterine bleeding in women who have previously menstruated. Mechanical obstruction in the vaginal or cervical canal may prevent drainage of uterine secretions. This may be due to a congenital stenosis or as the result of infection or trauma. The amenorrhea may be due to ovarian dysfunction or other endocrine disturbances that affect ovarian function such as inadequate production of gonadotrophin as a result of pituitary disease. Emotional stress or severe systemic or psychiatric illness or obesity may disturb the hypothalamic-hypophyseal control mechanism and produce amenorrhea.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

The appearance of the individual is an extremely helpful guide to clinical diagnosis in a patient with primary amenorrhea for the absence of secondary sex characteristics is obvious. When there is normal female development, a total evaluation of patient's lifestyle, particularly in relation to nutrition, is mandatory. Faulty nutrition is often responsible for the lack of sexual development in young girls before puberty so that secondary sex characteristics fail to develop properly or not at all. Cessation of menstrual flow or irregular or scanty menstruation accompany general malnutrition as production of sex hormones is decreased. Marked protein deficiency, vitamin E deficiency, lack of the vitamin B-complex as well as vitamin D and poor calcium metabolism all contribute to secondary amenorrhea.