What is PCOD, fullform and PCOS symptoms

 What is PCOD? 

PCOD full form is poly-cystic ovarian dieases.Many of you also know it by the name of PCOS (poly-cystic ovarian symdrome). It is caused due to hormonal disbalance. Woman affected by this cause abnormal menstrual cycle. This diease is pretty serious to concern in india. Roughly arround 1 in 10 Indian women have PCOS. It is most commonly seen in reproductive or childbearing women of age between 20-40 years. It usually happens due hormonal disorder causing enlarged ovaries with small cysts on the outer edges.

This Hormonal changes later may lead to the problems like Infertility,Type 2 diabetes, Heart diseases, Cholesterol abnormalities,Increased risk of endometrial cancer. PCOS and PCOD ie, Polycystic ovarian syndrome and polycystic ovarian disease are the names of the same disease.since it has multiple symptoms,it is called as syndrome.

Here we will take a detail look on various reason of PCOD or PCOS, also symptoms of PCOD and what are the measure a woman should take to avoid it. 

Causes of PCOD

Well the doctors also don't know the exactly want causes this disease but some of the causing expects(studied by officials) are mentioned here. 

The first one is hormonal imbalance

The ovaries will make both male and female hormones but in this disease the level of testosterone will increases. Other than this the prolactin and luteinizing hormone levels will increase and sex hormone-binding globulin will decrease all these will alter the normal ovary function.

The second one is the genetic factor

This means if anyone of your family, like your mother or sister has PCOS then you may have a high risk of having the disease.

The third one is Insulin resistance

In our body, there is a hormone called insulin, which digest glucose. In PCOS, low-quality insulin will produce because of this, you need to secrete more insulin to digest the same sugar due to this your insulin level will increase and that leads to weight gain. Obesity is pretty common in PCOD. 

Commom symptoms of PCOD

Irregular periods:

irregular periods ie, if it comes late or fall short. If any women have less than 8 periods per year then it can be considered as a symptom of PCOD

Heavy bleeding:

In some women, there is a chance to have heavy periods.Because if it happens after a long time then due to the shedding of thick uterus lining heavy period will occur

Acne:

due to the increase ammont of male hormone in body, problems like acne, pimples and oily skin can be seen. The testosterone hormone is mainly responsible for acne. 

Weight gain:

Increase in body weight and fat deposit can be seen as a symptom.It is hard to reduce it and most commonly the obesity is found around the waist. 

Hair problems:

The hair fall also be seen in this disease. The baldness occurs in male pattern like scalp and temple area gets loss of hair (just like male). 

Also due to increase in testosterone,the next symptom is excessive hair growth that will occur on your face, chest, back or thighs. 

Headache:

It has been reported that it also causes headache problems in woman. 

How to avoid PCOD problem? 

First one is to maintain healthy weight. 

The first one among this is weight loss.If you have overweight then by weight loss, your insulin quality, hormone levels will improve

Egg formation will take place itself.If you are planning for pregnancy that will also get benefited. 

The second one is to follow healthy diet.

What not to eat in PCOS?

Usually, I will advise my patients to avoid sweet items like cool drinks, jaggery, honey and even to avoid sweet fruits like sapodilla, mango etc.Other than that you should avoid white flour-based products like biscuits, pizza, burger etc.You should take starch-rich foods like potato, rice etc in a limited manner.You should limit the intake of tea and coffee

 what to eat in PCOS?

In PCOS you can eat protein-rich foods like chickpea, beans, black-eyed peas, eggs, non-vegs etc. Other than that you can eat green leafy vegetables and nuts like walnuts, chia seeds, flaxseed etc.You can take rice bran and canola oil. 

The third one is excercise. 

Doing exercise in PCOD will improve the quality of your insulin and also reduce insulin resistance.You can do any type of exercise, and our recommendation is you should do that 30-45 min in a week for at least 5 days.You can do yoga, Zumba, cross-fit, hit anything you likes but do that regularly. 

The forth one is sleep properly. 

Sleep for at least 8 hours, eat timely, reduce the stress that is also very important in PCOS treatment

Well all this precautions are too effective to prevent PCOD. Maintaining healthy lifestyle and proper diet is too effective to avoid such diease. Usually woman hesitate to disclose and discuss about such disease with to people arround especially in the countries like india. 

Having a proper treatment and consultation with the doctors is too necessary in PCOD. Consult the doctor even if you are not sure about it. Because its conplication can even leads to the damage of organs and even worse. Have a regular and proper checkup with the doctor. 

PCOS can also leads to infertility, increase risk of cancer, and metabolic bolic symsymdrome. Chemotherapy and medicines are also effective but with the proper certified experts. But still having a healthy lifestyle is much demanding ingredient to avoid it.