Symptoms
Common symptoms
Ovulation pain
Ovulation pain may occur around the middle of the menstrual cycle. It is usually mild, short-lived and not a cause for concern.
Abdominal bloating
Abdominal bloating is a feeling of fullness or tightness in the abdomen. It is often related to digestion and usually temporary.
Intestinal worms
Intestinal worms are parasitic infections of the gut. They can cause itching, abdominal pain and digestive symptoms.
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Blood turns up on days when there should not be any: in the middle of the cycle, a week before a period is due, straight after sex or the following morning.
Discharge is not an illness and not a sign of poor hygiene. The vagina cleans itself, and the fluid made by its walls and by the neck of the womb carries…
The walls of the vagina are kept moist continuously, and that moisture depends on oestrogen.
Blood in vomit means that somewhere in the upper digestive tract — the oesophagus, the stomach or the start of the duodenum — there is a bleeding source.
