Q Is there anything I should be especially careful about in daily life while I have uterine fibroids? The coldness in my lower abdomen worries me.
A Keeping your lower abdomen warm is important. Reduce cold foods and drinks, and warm your lower abdomen with sitz baths or hot packs. It is also good to avoid extreme dieting and severe stress.
Detailed Answer
A lifestyle that keeps the blood flow around the uterus healthy is helpful. Reduce cold drinks, frozen desserts, and raw, cold foods, and be careful with short clothing that exposes the abdomen to cold and with direct air conditioning. Doing sitz baths or warm compresses regularly is effective at improving lower abdominal blood circulation. Extreme calorie-restricting diets consume qi and blood and can actually worsen symptoms, so avoid them.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Keeping the lower abdomen warm is not just lifestyle advice but an extension of treatment. The warmer the uterus is kept, the less blood stasis accumulates and the smoother circulation becomes. Vaginal steam (jwahun) therapy and large moxibustion treatment are also carried out for this purpose.
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