How Being Underweight Affects Periods

 


We have often heard that being overweight is a risk factor for menstrual health and overall health. But did you know? Being underweight has a bad impact on menstrual care. It has become necessary to lose body weight to pose a perfect figure owing to the recent trends

 

Low levels of body fat may lead a menstruator to miss ovulation. About 22 percent of body fat is at least required for ovulation every month, and you should have normal periods regularly. If not, then menstruators won't have regular periods and will miss ovulation. Low body weight can lead to anemia as well, which in turn leads to heavy bleeding, or menorrhagia.

 In such circumstances, in order to deal with heavy bleeding, one must use heavy flow pads or the best heavy flow pads. Also, you can switch from organic sanitary pads to organic sanitary pads so that you don't get period rashes.

If you have less body weight then you can face problems while conceiving as well, because of irregular ovulation. A decrease in body weight can also be the cause of missed periods.

In order to find out about your body weight, you must keep an eye on your BMI (body mass index). In order to have a normal body weight, your BMI should range from 18.5 to 24.5. Anything less than 18.5 is considered underweight.


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