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Forms of puberty dysmenorrhea
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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
Primary dysmenorrhea is a disease that does not have an organic cause. Secondary dysmenorrhea. As a rule, has acquired character and is caused by an organic disease of internal genital organs. If a patient suffering from primary dysmenorrhea, in the course of further observation, shows anatomical changes in the genitals, then they diagnose secondary dysmenorrhea.
Yu.A. Gurkin (2000) distinguished the following forms of dysmenorrhea:
- genital:
- primary;
- secondary.
- extragenital:
- somatic;
- psychoneurogenic.
- mixed.
V.N. Prilepskaya and E.A. Mezhevitinova (1999) propose to allocate:
- compensated form - the severity and nature of the disease do not change with time;
- uncompensated form - characterized by an increase in the intensity of pain over the years.
E. Deliegeoroglu et al. (1997) proposed classification of the disease according to the degrees of severity:
- 0 degree - the absence in menstrual days of pain, affecting the daily activity;
- I degree - mild pain during menstruation, very rarely leading to a decrease in activity;
- II degree - daily activity is reduced, rarely do they miss school classes, as pain medication has a good effect;
- III degree - pain syndrome is maximally expressed, motor activity is sharply reduced, analgesics are ineffective, vegetative symptoms (headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea).
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