Intrauterine Spiral Can Reduce The Severity Of Menstrual Bleeding

Intrauterine Spiral Can Reduce The Severity Of Menstrual Bleeding.
Women with oppressive menstrual bleeding may hit upon some relief using an intrauterine device, or IUD, containing the hormone levonorgestrel, according to imaginative research. British researchers found that the treated IUD was more effective at reducing the crap of heavy menstrual bleeding (also called menorrhagia) on quality of life compared to other treatments. Normally employed for contraception, the intrauterine system is sold under the brand name Mirena.

So "If women submit to with heavy periods and do not want to get pregnant - as the levonorgestrel intrauterine practice is a contraceptive - then having the levonorgestrel intrauterine system is a very good first-line treatment privilege that does not require taking regular, daily oral medications," said the study's lead author, Dr Janesh Gupta, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Women's Hospital in England. For women who do want to get abounding taking the blood-clotting deaden tranexamic acid during periods is an other method of treating heavy periods.

Results of the study, which was funded by the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health Research, appear in the Jan 10, 2013 emerge of the New England Journal of Medicine. Heavy menstrual bleeding is a significant predicament for many women. About 20 percent of gynecologist duty visits in the United States and the United Kingdom are because of heavy bleeding. There are several nonhormonal and hormonal care options available to reduce blood loss.

The current study compared the use of standard medical options - tranexamic acid pills, mefenamic acid (Ponstel), combined estrogen-progestogen and progesterone unexcelled - to the use of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system. The researchers randomly assigned nearly 600 women with coarse menstrual bleeding to receive either the IUD or standard medical care. They assessed change for the better using a patient-reported score on a scale designed to measure gravity of symptoms. The scale goes from 0 to 100, with lower scores indicating more severe symptoms.