Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Hospital was awarded "Hunan Province Menopausal Health Care Characteristics Specialty Construction Unit"

According to statistics, a considerable number of the about 160 million perimenopausal women in the mainland suffer from menopausal syndrome.

Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Hospital opened the first "menopausal outpatient clinic" in the city, endocrinology, traditional Chinese medicine hall, psychology and other multidisciplinary support menopausal health care, and explore menopausal health care services with distinctive characteristics... Over the years, through the health care and treatment of menopause, the hospital has allowed many middle-aged and elderly women to get out of the "haze of menopause" and embrace a new life again. Recently, the hospital was rated by the Hunan Provincial Health Commission as the province's menopausal health care specialty construction unit, and it is also the only health care institution in Xiangtan City to receive this honor.

As early as 2010, the hospital opened a "menopausal clinic" to receive menopausal women's consultation, personalized treatment for them, and solve their menopausal troubles through their lifestyle guidance and health management; in 2019, the "menopausal outpatient clinic" was upgraded to a "menopausal health care specialist clinic" and an "anti-aging center" was established to allow menopausal women to retain their years and live wonderfully through the deep integration of health care and clinical treatment.

At the age of 45, Ms. Li developed symptoms such as irregular menstruation, poor sleep, and night sweats, which seriously affected her normal life. After diagnosis, the director of the Women's Health Department and the chief physician of Xiangtan Maternal and Child Health Hospital believed that she was caused by the decline in estrogen due to the decline in ovarian function, so on the one hand, hormone replacement therapy was carried out for her, and on the other hand, it was recommended that she take the initiative to intervene early, such as developing good living habits, eating lightly, and not staying up late. After Ms. Li followed the doctor's advice and actively treated, her symptoms improved greatly, and she was much younger.

After suffering from menopausal syndrome, Ms. Liu, 54, suffered from long-term severe insomnia; in addition, she also had symptoms such as headache and dizziness, dry throat and bitter tongue, memory loss, and waist and knee pain. In view of Ms. Liu's condition, the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital followed the principle of traditional medicine of "reconciling yin and yang, calming the mind and calming the mind" when giving her menopausal health care, and did acupuncture point acupuncture, ear acupuncture and other treatments through traditional Chinese medicine. After several courses of treatment, Ms. Liu's insomnia symptoms have improved greatly, and she directly praises the efficacy of Chinese medicine.

The many symptoms of menopause involve multiple disciplines, so the hospital's menopausal health care cooperates with many departments such as gynecology, breast medicine, internal medicine, psychological clinic, and women's rehabilitation department of traditional Chinese medicine. These departments have distinct advantages, such as the gynecology of traditional Chinese medicine has unique treatment methods in the fields of menopausal maintenance, anti-aging and beauty maintenance, weight loss, etc., and the women's rehabilitation department is the only national pelvic floor dysfunction disease diagnosis and treatment center in the city. The multidisciplinary model of health care and diagnosis and treatment provides continuous and individualized menopausal health care services for female menopausal patients. (Correspondent Pang Yiyang )