Is it okay to wash your hair during menstruation?

Menstruation is a physiological phenomenon that every woman experiences every month. Some female friends will experience various discomforts in their bodies during their menstrual period. However, they do not know that there are still many taboos in women’s living habits during menstruation. The older generation often tells us not to wash our hair during menstruation. Many female friends, especially young ones, cannot stand not washing their hair for a week, and they will ask if it is okay to wash your hair during menstruation?

Is it good to wash your hair during menstruation? The answer is yes, of course it is not good, but there are certain rules and many precautions. As long as you master these common sense, it is not completely forbidden to wash your hair during menstruation. From a doctor's point of view, if female friends wash their hair during menstruation, they are very easy to catch a cold, which makes it more likely to experience dysmenorrhea.

What are the dangers of washing your hair during menstruation?

1. Dysmenorrhea

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head is the head of the six yang meridians and the uterus is the starting point of the Ren meridian. During menstruation, blood circulation is already relatively poor. Washing your hair will cause blood to concentrate in the head, affecting blood circulation in the uterus, making it impossible for the blood in the uterus to be discharged smoothly, which can easily cause a decrease in menstrual blood volume or menstrual pain.

2. Headache

Because the pores on the hair roots are open, if you catch a cold at this time, it is easy to cause headaches, especially if you wash your hair at night or before going to bed. Night is Yin and head is the first of six Yang. When Yin and Yang are at odds, headaches will be more serious. If you go to bed immediately before your hair is completely dry, all kinds of problems will definitely occur when your body resistance and metabolism are low.

Precautions for washing your hair during menstruation

Menstruation is a very fragile period for women. Taking a bath and washing hair during this period will cause some women to suffer from severe dysmenorrhea. However, women generally pay more attention to their image. In addition, the weather is hot, and if they must wash their hair, they must remember the precautions for washing their hair during menstruation and avoid being blind.

1. It is best not to wash your hair two days before your period, as women's body resistance is very low at this time;

2. If you must wash your hair, you can choose to wash it during the day on the third day;

3. Don’t wash your hair for too long at the same time;

4. Be sure to wash your hair immediately after washing. You can wear a hat or go to bed only after your hair is dry, otherwise you will easily get headaches.

After reading the dangers and precautions of washing hair during menstruation introduced above, female friends must pay attention to these common sense of washing hair when they have their periods to avoid dysmenorrhea and headaches, which may affect their normal life and work in severe cases. I hope this article can provide some substantial help to female friends.