Here is all you need to know about passing blood clots during periods and the causes and treatment of this condition by Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS.

Passing the blobs of blood in the form of blood clots in your periods can be normal. Where many women experience this condition of blood clots on the days of heavy bleeding for others it might be a regular thing.

On one hand where occasional clotting is not worrisome, experiencing these large clots on a regular basis can be an indication of some underlying condition.

Normal clots are small in size and occur occasionally towards the beginning or end of your periods depending upon the blood flow. Abnormal menstrual clots are comparatively larger in size and darker in colour as compared to the normal period blood.

What does it means – blood clots during periods ?

What it actually means?

Some people might find it to be very surprising that one can even pass blood clots while bleeding on their periods where others might experience it on a regular basis.

Although our period blood is supposed to be in fluid form, clotting is the body’s natural defense mechanism.

Blood clots can be understood as collection of blood in veins and arteries when blood changes from liquid to a partially solid form. Generally these come up as a response to injuries. This happens due to the presence of two substances namely platelets and fibrin. Menstrual cramps generally occur due to a heavy flow and feels like blood blobs are passing through the vagina.

When do these clots appear?

As the inner lining of the uterus sheds during periods, it tends to release a substance called fibrinolysin which gets dissolved and prevents any kind of clotting.

The clothing depends upon the amount of blood flow and the amount of fibrinolysin released by the uterus.

In the case of light to medium flow, the fibrinolysin released by the uterus is enough to prevent blood clots.

In case of heavy flow the amounts of fibrinolysin released might not be enough and hence result in clots.

Most of the cases, these clots tend to appear on the first and second day of periods as the flow is comparatively heavier on these days. In some cases a woman might experience clots in alternative months depending upon the heaviness of the flow.

Underlying causes of blood clots formation during periods

Passing blood clots during periods can be normal in some cases whereas it can be an indication of some or the other underlying disease. Some of the causes of passing blood clots during periods are-

• Thyroid
• Coagulation of uterus
• Uterus cancer
• Hormonal medications
• Polyps
• Cervix cancer
• UIDs
• Uterus fibroids
• Blood disorder
• Heavy blood flow
• Endometriosis
• Hormonal imbalance
• Enlarged Uterus
• Malignancy
• Birth control
• PCOD

Allopathic Treatment for Blood Clots During Periods

Certain medicines can cause heavy menstrual bleeding, too. These include:

• Blood thinners and aspirin.
• Hormone replacement therapy.
• Tamoxifen (breast cancer drug).
• Intrauterine devices (IUDs).
• Birth control pills and injectables.

P.S: Failing to remove contraceptive devices when needed can also cause abnormal uterine bleeding.

Homeopathic Treatment for Blood Clots During Periods

As an allopathic doctor i never liked Allopathic Treatment for any disease(s) accept common headache.

Here are some homeopathic medicines for abnormal blood clots during periods and their causes.

Sepia

Pelvic organs relaxed. Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva, must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhoea yellow, greenish; with much itching. Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains. Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus. Prolapse of uterus and vagina. Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.

Kreosotum

Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhoea yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Haemorrhage after coition. Menses too early, prolonged. Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual flow intermits; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits.

Lac Caninum

Menses too early, profuse, flow in gushes. Breasts swollen; painful before and better on appearance of menses. Mastitis; worse, least jar. Helps to dry up milk. Sinking at epigastrium. Sexual organs easily excited. Backache; spine very sensitive to touch or pressure. Galactorrhoea.

Pulsatilla

Amenorrhoea. Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhoea during or after menses.

Cimicifuga Racemosa

Amenorrhoea. Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip. After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain. Infra-mammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young women.

Senecio Aureus

Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhoea of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anaemic dysmenorrhoea with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses.

Erigeron Canadensis

Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder, and prolapsus uteri. Bright-red flow. Menorrhagia; profuse leucorrhoea; bloody lochia returns after least motion, comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhoea with urinary irritation; pregnant women with “weak uterus;” a bloody discharge on slight exertion. Bleeding haemorrhoids; nosebleed instead of menses.

Lilium Tigrinum

Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow only when moving about. Bearing down sensation with urgent desire for stool, as though all organs would escape. Ceases when resting. Congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion. Constant desire to support parts externally. Pain in ovaries and down thighs. Acrid, brown leucorrhoea; smarting in labia. Sexual instinct awakened. Bloated feeling in uterine region. Subinvolution. Pruritus pudendi.

Natrum Carbonicum

Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down sensation. Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving. Menses late, scanty like meat-washings. Leucorrhoea offensive, irritating preceded by colic.

Aecidium Nitricum

External parts sore, with ulcers. Leucorrhoea brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out. Uterine haemorrhages. Menses early, profuse, cloted like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after parturition.

Lachesis Mutus

Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, haemorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow. Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mammae inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation.

Mercurius Solibus

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhoea excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries. Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness, with profuse salivation. Mammae painful and full of milk at menses.

Murex Purpurea

Conscious of a womb. Pulsation in neck of womb. Desire easily excited. Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis: worse sitting. Pain from right side of womb to right or left breast. Nymphomania. Least contact of parts causes violent sexual excitement. Sore pain in uterus. Menses irregular, profuse, frequent, large clots. Feeling of protrusion. Prolapse; enlargement of uterus, with pelvic tenesmus and sharp pains, extending toward breasts; aggravated lying down. Dysmenorrhoea and chronic endometritis, with displacement. Must keep legs tightly crossed. Leucorrhoea green or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in sacrum. Benign tumors in breasts. Pain in them during menstrual period.

Thuja Occidentalis

Vagina very sensitive. Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhoea; thick, greenish. Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region. Menses scanty, retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis; worse left side, at every menstrual period. Profuse perspiration before menses.

Berberis Vulgaris

Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus, contraction and tenderness of vagina. Burning and soreness in vagina. Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition. Menses scanty, gray mucus, with pain in kidneys and chilliness, pain down thighs. Leucorrhoea, grayish mucus, with painful urinary symptoms. Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.

Sabina

Menses profuse, bright. Uterine pains extend into thighs. Threatened miscarriage. Sexual desire increased. Leucorrhoea after menses, corrosive, offensive. Discharge of clotted blood between periods, with sexual excitement. Retained placenta; intense after-pains. Menorrhagia in women who aborted readily. Inflammation of ovaries and uterus after abortion. Promotes expulsion of moles from uterus. Pain from sacrum to pubis, and from below upwards shooting up the vagina. Haemorrhage; partly clotted; worse from least motion. Atony of uterus.

Ferrum Metallicum

Menses remit a day or two, and then return. Discharge of long pieces from uterus. Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina.

China Officianalis

Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal distention. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody leucorrhoea. Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge. Painful heaviness in pelvis.

Borax

Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhoea. In nursing, pain in opposite breast. Leucorrhoea like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhoea. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritus of vulva and eczema.

Belladonna

Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Haemorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling haemorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.

Calcarea Carbonica

Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhoea. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhoea, milky. Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polyps.

Millefolium

Haemorrhage from uterus from too violent exertions. Metrorrhagia. Menses too profuse. Suppressed menstruation with epileptic attacks. Barrenness with too profuse menstruation, or tendency to miscarry. Suppressed lochia with violent fever, suppressed secretion of milk, or convulsions, convulsive motion of all limbs and violent pain. Lochia too profuse.

Cyclamen Europaeum

Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too early, with labor-like pains from back to pubes. Flow less when moving about. Menstrual irregularities with megrim and blindness, or fiery spots before eyes. Hiccough during pregnancy. Post-partum haemorrhage, with colicky bearing-down pains, with relief after gush of blood. After menses, swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.

Crocus Sativus

Threatened abortion, especially when haemorrhage is dark and stringy. Urging of blood to genitals. Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy. Uterine haemorrhage; clots with long strings; worse from least movement. Jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn toward back by means of thread. A bounding feeling, as if something alive in right breast.

Hamamelis

Ovarian congestion and neuralgia; feel very sore. Vicarious menstruation. Uterine haemorrhage, bearing-down pain in back. Menses dark, profuse, with soreness in abdomen. Metrorrhagia, occurring midway between menstrual periods. Intermenstrual pain. Vagina very tender. Profuse leucorrhoea. Vulva itches. Milk-leg, haemorrhoids, and sore nipples, after confinement. Metrorrhagia; passive flow. Vaginismus, ovaritis, soreness over whole abdomen. Phlegmasia alba.

Thlaspi Bursa

Metrorrhagia; too frequent and copious menses. Haemorrhage, with violent uterine colic. Every alternate period very profuse. Leucorrhoea before and after menses; bloody, dark, offensive; stains indelibly. Sore pain in womb on rising. Scarcely recovers from one period before another begins.

Trillium Pendulum

Uterine haemorrhages, with sensation as though hips and back were falling to pieces; better tight bandages. Gushing of bright blood on least movement. Haemorrhage from fibroids. Prolapse, with great bearing-down. Leucorrhoea copious, yellow, stringy. Metrorrhagia at climacteric. Lochia suddenly becomes sanguineous. Dribbling of urine after labor.

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Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.

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