How can I avoid dysmenorrhea?

Simply you have to change your diet; I personally do this and it麓s worked for me, I have a better life when my period comes.

1.- Take two full spoons of flaxseed with a large glass of water first thing in the mornning after breakfast. It has lignans and omega 3 that help us with cramps and swelling.
2.- Try to have fruist as breakfast mangos and babanas are great for our bodies and help us with the period. Also eat fruit at the mornning or with an empty stomach, otherwise fruit decomposes in your stomach and doens麓t give you the help it could.
3.-Eat at least two fruits and 5 vegetables a day, eat healthier!
4.- Avoid meat; all meat this means ham and sausages all red meat.
5.- No chunk food, no flour with sugar like cakes and cookies.
6.- Take soy, you can have soy milk or anything you want with soy, but be sure to take it. Also eat tofu it has progesterone that will help you lots.
7.- Make exercise I personally jog walk or run or climb and make come pilates but that麓s pretty much it. I do it like 4 or 5 times a wekk for 40 minutes.

Do this just for a month give it a try you麓ll se the difference, you麓ll lose pounds you麓ll see you have a better digestion, and your stomach will be better also your period.
The way your period comes depends on th way you eat.

Good luck! ;D

Historical attitudes toward menstrual pain were often dismissive. Pain was often attributed to women's emotional or psychological states, misconceptions about sex, and unhealthy maternal relations. Research has now established concrete physiologic explanations for dysmenorrhea, which discredit these prior theories.

Primary dysmenorrhea usually begins within the first 6-12 months after menarche once a regular ovulatory cycle has been established. During menstruation, sloughing endometrial cells release prostaglandins, which cause uterine ischemia through myometrial contraction and vasoconstriction. Elevated levels of prostaglandins have been measured in the menstrual fluid of women with severe dysmenorrhea. These levels are especially high during the first 2 days of menstruation. Vasopressin may also play a similar role.

Secondary dysmenorrhea may present at any time after menarche, but most commonly arises when a woman is in her 20s or 30s, after years of normal, relatively painless cycles. Elevated prostaglandins may also play a role in secondary dysmenorrhea, but, by definition, concomitant pelvic pathology must also be present. Common causes include endometriosis, leiomyomata (fibroids), adenomyosis, endometrial polyps, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, and IUD use.

You can take evening primose oil. Once daily. When your menstruation is due, you won't have dysmenorrhoea. Evening primose oil is also good for your skin, nails, hair and general health. In fact this is the best solution.

If you don't want the above suggestion, you can take painkillers when you are having pain. Of course on regular basis, this is not good at all. You may start having complications due to the medications in the long run. So take care.

Or not to avoid, but to make you comfortable, you can have warm drinks & food. For most ladies, when you take cold drinks & food, the pain gets worse. Reason being that when u take cold stuff, you blood vessels constrict & vice versa. You can also apply a hot pack on your abdomen. It will make you feel better.

Happy pain free periods!

it depends on situatio,u must have a safe GYN system,if not go to DR,u can eat pills for birth control,they are exellent.

you cant. it just happens. deal with it if it does. I have it and i have to live with it.