Breaking the cycle
Promoting better menstrual literacy will help clinicians assess and manage the symptoms associated with dysmenorrhea, according to a new Irish study.
Peter Doyle reports
More needs to be done to remove the stigma surrounding menstruation and menstrual pain, an award-winning Irish research paper is reporting.
Defined as cramping pain in the lower abdomen occurring just before or during menstruation, menstrual pain, also known as primary dysmenorrhea (PD), affects the majority of women of reproductive age.
Researchers from Centre for Pain Research, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), and the NUIG’s School of Psychology recently investigated the impact the condition was having on third-level students.
Tomorrow will see a further relaxing of the tough Covid-19 restrictions we have been living under for more than a year.
It will undoubtedly be a source of happiness to people to be allowed to travel outside of their own county for the first time since Christmas.
And there will also be relief as hairdressers, barbers and beauticians reopen, along with libraries, museums, galleries and other cultural attractions.
Friends and families will be delighted that three households, or a group of six people, will be permitted to meet outdoors, while a vaccinated household can meet an unvaccinated one indoors.
With renewed freedoms against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding vaccination roll-out, there will be an accompanying sense of hope that wasn t necessarily there the last time restrictions were eased before Christmas.