Once a woman is no longer menstruating, health problems that arise were extraordinary. In addition to physical and
psychological changes, a menopausal woman is also at risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, dementia, and colon cancer.
A number of disturbing symptoms are also often complain about women who enter
menopause, including hot blast in the face (hot flushes), insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, libido decrease, until the pain during intercourse.
"Women also experience symptoms of menopause such psychic feel unloved, wanted to end life, ill-tempered, and often forget," said Prof. Med. Ali Baziad, SpOG, Professor of Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia in the seminar Latest Complaints Handling in the climacteric woman Menopause Society held by Indonesia in Jakarta some time ago.
These problems are experienced when the woman entered the age of 48 to 52 years. Menopause is a time when women's ovarian function decreases because bosit and primordial follicles have been exhausted and eventually stop producing eggs.
According to the doctor Ali, disturbances that accompany the arrival of the menopause is not a direct effect or direct from the hormone estrogen decline is very important in a woman's body.
If the hormone estrogen no longer produced, will appear a variety of health problems given the hormone estrogen is supporting the entire female body cellular systems, ranging from hair, eyes, skin, down to the physical organs other.
Therefore, Prof. Ali emphasized treatment of menopause is a problem with adding hormone
replacement via hormone replacement therapy.
"Imagine how much drug should be taken when each was given a drug complaint. And the drug of all complaints had hormonal treatment is to replace the missing hormone," he explained.
All this comes concerns about hormone replacement therapy is considered to be causing breast cancer, cardiovascular disease (heart), and liver disease.
In fact, according to recent research, Prof. Ali has found a type of estrogen hormones are safer for the body.
"There are 10 types of estrogen, which is recommended for hormone replacement therapy is the same as naturally present in the ovaries, namely estrogen type drospirenone," he said.
Ali added that hormone therapy should be started early menopause. In addition, women in old age are advised to keep his lifestyle.
Setbacks such as osteoporosis can be overcome with continued exercise, activity and bask in the sun for vitamin D is formed in the skin from sun light. Vitamin D is needed so that calcium can be consumed into the bone and to keep the body healthy.