A profile of menstrual disorders in a private set up (original) (raw)

Menstruation and its disorders are still considered unholy and impure and are not yet recognised as significant reproductive health morbidity. Therefore a prospective study was carried out at a private clinic for a period of three months where total number of patients coming with current or past menstrual problems are 525. This number did not include pregnant women or those on any hormonal medications or having dysfunctional uterine bleeding. This study aimed to find out the incidence of Menstrual Morbidity and their mode of presentation. It has also tried to find out these women's age, parity, age of menarche and number, following discriminating traditional rituals during their 1st and regular menses, their family planning status and the districts from where they came to Kathmandu for their treatment. In this study, menstrual morbidity was found to be 43.75%. Approximately 60% of women having menstrual complaints had absolutely normal menstrual cycle; whereas 13% of them had ir...