Drink hot water to shrink that fibroid says some people. I wonder who started it and why it is gaining popularity among women with fibroid. To find out if drinking or even bathing with hot water can shrink the fibroid, let’s take a look at the fibroid itself.
What Is Fibroid
Uterine fibroids (also known as fibromyomas, leiomyomas, or myomas) are growths made of smooth muscle cells that appear in the uterus during childbearing years. The growths are not malignant nor are they related to cancer, but they are classified as tumors.
They are extremely common and often go unnoticed by many women and often shrink after menopause. Uterine fibroids occur more frequently in black women but are almost never seen in a woman less than 20 years old.
There are different types of uterine fibroids that are classified by location. These include submucous fibroids, which develop in the uterine cavity; intramural fibroids, which grow on the uterine wall; and subserous fibroids which are found outside the uterus. Some fibroids grow so large that they may be classified into more than one category.
The official medical cause of fibroid development is unknown, but it appears to react to the levels of the hormone estrogen. When estrogen levels are high, as they are during childbearing years, or pregnancy fibroids grow larger but when they decrease, as they do during menopause, fibroids shrink.
Symptoms Of Uterine Fibroid
When the fibroid's symptoms appear, they often manifest during menstruation, causing unusually heavy and long-lasting bleeding. Fibroids in the uterus that are larger in size often cause cramps and abdominal pain. The pain is often described as heaviness similar to pregnancy pain.
The pain caused by this illness can be very intense and limit your life. It can force you to take too many days off your work and result in problems at work. You may go through embarrassing experiences like having a stain on your clothes due to heavy bleeding.
You may also suffer from anemia because of blood loss. Pain during intercourse also belongs to the fibroids symptoms.
What appears to be frequent and urgent urination. Also blocked urine flow can appear when the fibroids are too close to the bladder. This can sometimes result in uncontrollable leakage of urine.
Fibroids too close to the rectum can cause constipation. Because the fibroid's growth develops pressure on organs around them, they can squeeze nerves and cause back pain too.
Rarer symptoms belong to edema (the accumulation of fluid) in the feet and ankles followed by leg pain.
Infertility is also connected to uterine fibroids problems. This varies from case to case and is dependent on the exact fibroids’ location. Getting pregnant with fibroids still can happen but often result in pregnancy complications.
Fibroids in pregnant women can cause heavy bleeding and affect the position of the fetus. The symptom of Another uterine fibroid for pregnant women is a higher risk of miscarriage and/or premature labor.
If your fibroids are small, you will probably not have the fibroids symptoms present in their worse manifestation. In any case, if you would like to elude the awful fibroids symptoms, infertility problems, and future health complications (that could include fibroids removal during surgery or hysterectomy), investigate available fibroids treatment as soon as possible.
Can Drinking Hot Water Shrink Uterine Fibroid?
The answer is no. I will tell you the reason. The temperature of the body is about 37°C. You cannot drink water above 60°C. It will burn your mouth.
Warm water has a long way to go down to your stomach. By the time it gets there, the temperature must have dropped to a near-body temperature.
In the stomach, the hot water mixes with other stomach contents at 37°C which will further bring it down completely to body temperature.
It is absorbed into the body at that temperature. There is no way hot water gets to the fibroid directly. However, there is a workaround for this.
You can lie down and put a hot pack or hot water bottle on your lower belly to ease the pain. You will need to do this several times a day.
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