WHAT IS FIBROID?
🗣Fibroids are non-cancerous (benign) tumors that grow from the muscle layers of the uterus (womb). They are also known as uterine fibroids, leiomyomas, or myomas.
They can vary from the size of a bean to as large as a melon.
INCIDENCE
👉🏻Research shows that fibroids affect at least 20 percent of all women at some point in their life.
CAUSES
👉🏻Women of reproductive age are the most likely to develop them.
👉🏻Also, overweight and obese women have a significantly higher risk of developing fibroids, compared with women of normal weight.
👉🏻Heredity may also be a factor; women whose close relatives have had fibroids have a higher risk of developing them.
👉🏻There is also some medical evidence that red meats,
👉🏻alcohol,
👉🏻and caffeine could increase the risk of fibroids.
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
👉🏻Heavy menstrual bleeding.
👉🏻Menstrual periods lasting more than a week.
👉🏻Pelvic pressure or pain.
👉🏻Frequent urination.
👉🏻Difficulty emptying the bladder.
👉🏻Constipation.
👉🏻Backache or leg pains.
MANAGEMENT
👉🏻An increased intake of fruit and vegetables might reduce the risk.
👉🏻Surgical removal i.e Myomectomy, hysterectomy and uterine artery embolisation (UAE).
HLF💫
