Women’s complaints on severe PMS symptoms should alert the research of experts at Oxford University have shown that this may indicate the presence of a covertly occurring genital infections. The results of this study published the journal EvolutionMedicine PublicHealth.
“Chlamydia, herpes or HPV is asymptomatic, two times increase the likelihood of headaches, cramps and bad moods at the end of the menstrual cycle, and increase emotional sensitivity throughout the second half of the cycle,” – said leading specialist of the project, anthropologist Alexander Alvern.
This conclusion is confirmed by the results of the analysis of information about the 865 women who used a special app to track menstrual cycles and fertility. Scientists took into account such factors as painful menstruation in women, their physical and emotional state at the end of the cycle, use of hormonal contraceptives and the presence of sexually transmitted infections.
The analysis showed that severe ICP is associated with deterioration of mood before menstruation can be indicator of the presence in a woman’s body sexually transmitted infection. And that, treatment of infection allows to mitigate the negative symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that a kind of marker of latent diseases of the body can be an early graying.