THE ROLE OF ORAL MAGNESIUM IN REDUCING SYMPTOMS OF PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA

Mohammad Barakat*, Maisoon Dayoub and Hasan Saleh

ABSTRACT

Introduction: primary dysmenorrhea is menstrual pain which occurs in the absence of demonstrable pelvic disease. It affects women’s quality of life and in severe cases can cause weakness and inefficiency. Dysmenorrhea is the most common problem in women with normal ovulatory cycles and no pelvic pathology which occurs in 80-90% in adolescents and young females So, finding appropriate and effective alternatives for its treatment is important. The most common treatment for relieving primary dysmenorrhea is use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) with failure rate of about 20%-25%, as well as occurrence of certain side effects. Therefore, many researchers are trying to find other treatments such as complementary and alternative therapies and numerous studies are being conducted on this matter. Objectives: The role of oral magnesium in reducing symptoms of primary dysmenorrhea. Materials and Methods: an Experimental pilot study (prospective) was involved 100 patients among 19-35 years old, presented with primary dysmenorrhea at lattakia university hospital between 2024-2025. After examination and assessing the menstrual symptoms and the history of symptoms and exclusion the secondary dysmenorrehea, and BMI calculating, was gave them oral magnesium380mg for 3 months. we used a Vissual Analogue ScoreVAS to determine the severity of the pain. Results: the current study showed that after initiation of treatment by magnesium,a decrease in Vissual Analogue ScoreVAS was observed with statistically significant.the decrease after 3 months of treatment 88%. Conclusions: The results showed that magnesium 380 mg can reduce the severity of menstrual symptoms in women with primary dysmenorrhea.

Keywords: Magnesium, Primary dysmenorrhea.