Women's Health Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 5 , Pages 207-210, 1 September 2006

Primary dysmenorrhoea

  • D Mazza, MD MBBS FRACGP DRANZCOG Grad Dip Women’s Health

D Mazza MD MBBS FRACGP DRANZCOG Grad Dip Women’s Health is Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice at Monash University, Melbourne, Austrialia

Abstract 

Dysmenorrhoea literally means painful menstrual flow and refers to cramping lower abdominal pain occurring with the onset of menstrual flow. In cases of primary dysmenorrhoea the pain commences during the teenage years and occurs in the absence of any pelvic disease. In contrast, secondary dysmenorrhoea usually commences later in life and results from some kind of underlying problem like endometriosis. This paper investigates the prevalence, aetiology, the distinction of primary and secondary dysmenorrhoea and treatments that can be offered to women.

Keywords:  menstruation , primary dysmenorrhoea , endometriosis

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 This article has been reproduced from: Danielle Mazza. Women’s Health in General Practice. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2004.

PII: S1744-1870(06)70205-0

doi:10.1053/S1744-1870(06)70205-0

Women's Health Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 5 , Pages 207-210, 1 September 2006

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