Top 5 Women's Health Issues

While trying to take care of the family, doing household chores, balancing social and professional lives, do women forget to take care of their health?

Women's health issues often get unnoticed and neglected. Here are top 5 women health issues. Let’s have a look at these and try to understand why they need our attention:

1. Breast cancer: Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in women. This disease has become a major problem all across the globe.

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 Common symptoms:

• Discharge from nipples 
• Unusual shape , size and colour of the breast and nipples 
• Feeling a lump in your breast
• Redness, soreness, rashes or swelling 

These symptoms doesn’t always indicate breast cancer but you should never ignore anything unusual. Early diagnosis is the key to prevention. Watch out for these symptoms , have regular self breast examination and if you find anything unusual consult with your doctor immediately.

2. PCOS: PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome is a hormonal disorder which is becoming very common nowadays. While the exact cause is unknown, the common causes can be genetic and hormonal imbalances  

Common symptoms to look for:

1. Sudden weight gain/loss

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2. Excessive hair fall

3. Acne

4. Missing your periods/ Irregular periods 

5. Excessive growth of facial and hair

6. Change in voice

PCOS is a lifestyle disease that can only be controlled with right guidance from the doctor , a healthy lifestyle, exercise , better sleep and reducing stress.

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3. Osteoporosis:Osteoporosis is a disease when your bone loses its density and becomes very weak and hence can break easily , and one of most common reasons can be low levels of oestrogen in the body. Surprisingly Osteoporosis is a very common disease in India in comparison to Western Countries. It is common among women because often the women compromise with their nutritional needs during pregnancy or menopause. 

Look out for these common symptoms:

1. Back pain
2. Stooped Posture
3. Loss of height
4. Bone that breaks easily 
5. Pain in joints 

4. Auto-Immune diseases: Autoimmune disease is a condition when your own healthy cell starts attacking your body. Your immune system sees your own healthy cells, organs, tissue as foreign invaders and starts attacking it. Few Auto-Immune diseases target a specific organ while few target the whole body.

    5.   Depression: Depression is something that can affect all gender and age groups. For a women, the reasons are many, be it childhood trauma, work pressure , not being asked for her consent in major life decisions, domestic violence and more. All these things can take a toll on her mental health and can become a reason for depression.

Common symptoms:

1. Always having a feeling of tiredness 

2. No motivation to do anything 

3. Difficulty in believing yourself hence it takes a toll on your self-esteem 

6. Problem in focusing and concentrating

7. Eating disorders

8. Severe Mood swings 

If you notice these signs there might be a chance that you are suffering from depression . To get a correct diagnosis and treatment do visit a Clinical Psychologist.

All these diseases are very much connected to our lifestyle habits.  So by incorporating a few healthy habits into our lives, by tracing the symptoms as soon as possible and by getting a right diagnosis from the doctor can help you prevent many of these diseases. That’s why, don’t wait ,don’t ignore and take the action.