Women and Menopause in India

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Women and Menopause in India

I decided to choose option number four and talking about menopause that women experience in India.

            Many women will experience menopause changes prior in their last "perimenopause". The menopause age will not affect by age of woman or pregnancy or even taking birth control medication. Many studies showed that women who smokes at the early stages of their life will experience menopause two years earlier than women who don’t smoke. The ages that women experience the menopause between age 46 and above.

There is a great variation in experiences women menopause in the world. Women will have many common biologically and physically changes due to the changes in hormone’s fluctuations in estrogen that women can experience during that time.  

According to the articles (health issue menopause,2012.) that I read about menopause changes that women can have in India, there is different health issues in menopause in India. The issues seemed to be different from one area to another and that’s due the level of education and health care accessibility in these areas. In addition, women hesitated to talk about it or even refused to go to the clinic to do the normal yearly checkup. For example, in Delhi even the level of education is not too bad in these areas, but it seems to be an issue there also.

The articles focused on women’s perspectives, the majority of women in India specifically in North India experienced in the region. Education is very important factor to understand the changes and who to deal with all upcoming changes women need to have and how to balance the lifestyle. Biologically speaking and according to the article women need to increase the Calcium intake because women will have “Osteopenia” which is the weakness in bones. Therefore; increasing the Calcium is very significant. In India and due to the religious aspect women seems to be suffering from the Thyroid and Hypothyroid disorder.

As conclusion, it is very normal to see different perspectives that some women have, due to many factors one of them cultural background, religion views and the type of lifestyle. It is very necessary to encourage women to have health screening with nutritional supplementation, exercise, adequate sunshine and sleep time can be emphasized in all menopausal women.

References: -

Mahajan N, Aggarwal M, Bagga A. Health issues of menopausal women in North India. J Midlife Health. 2012.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071654