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Estrogen Overdose: Good to Know About
These days, it is very common that women facing menopause take estrogens in order to relief most of the symptoms that menopause brings to them. According to the UNSW Embryology website, estrogens are “female sex hormones produced by the ovaries, responsible for the development of secondary feminine sex characteristics. Together with progesterone, these hormones also regulate changes that occur each menstrual cycle”. On the other hand, menopause is defined, by the website havingbabies.com, as “the natural cessation of ovarian function and menstruation. Menopause can occur between de ages of 42 and 56, but usually occurs around the age of 51, when the ovaries stop producing eggs and estrogen levels decline”.
However, during this period, women may experience an estrogen overdose, which refers to exceeding the recommended amount of estrogen hormones in medications. Most of the time, this sort of overdose would be from oral medications in spite of the fact that estrogens can also be administered injected or absorbed into the skin. The symptoms of an estrogen overdose may include excessive vaginal bleeding, referring to a period of 2 to 7 days after the overdose, breast tenderness, rash, headache, mental changes, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, discoloration of urine and/or fluid retention. Obviously, at this moment, estrogen users must stop taking the drug. The poisoning may not have fatal consequences in the organism because it is considered not to be life threatening. Nevertheless, get in contact with a health center in order to be instructed in case this occurs.
However, before calling it an emergency is fundamental to know about some kind of crucial information about the case. For instance, it is a good idea to determine the name of the product and, if possible, its strengths and ingredients, the amount the patient swallowed, the age, condition and weight of the patient, the date and time of the overdose and if the personal facing the overdose relied on a prescription of the medication. Nonetheless, the most important thing here is that patients must be conscious about the implications and possible consequences of an overdose. In this way, he or she will be aware of taking all the necessary measures in order to prevent an overdose.
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