Vitamin B6, pyridoxine hydrochloride, is involved in tryptophan, sugar, and estrogen metabolism. Women taking oral contraceptives during the premenstrual period have an increased need for vitamin B6. Insufficient intake can lead to excitement, hyperreflexia and peripheral neuritis, as well as headaches, irritability, sleepiness, agitation, and even depression. Vitamin B6 is high in the outer skin of cereals and cabbage, so people with mild symptoms can eat more of it. Those with severe symptoms can take oral vitamin B6 tablets, 10-20 mg each time, three times a day.
Vitamin B12 is most abundant in liver and lean meat, and deficiency can cause tongue inflammation, diarrhea, and megaloblastic anemia, often accompanied by neurological symptoms such as dullness of sensation and limb movement disorders. Women who take oral contraceptives for a long time and consume less meat can cause vitamin B12 deficiency. In addition to supplementation from the diet, vitamin B12 can be injected intramuscularly at 50 mg-100 mg or intramuscularly at 50 mg-200 mg every other day.
Vitamin B1 deficiency can not only cause foot problems, but can also involve the heart and make people irritable, sleepy, nervous, and temperamental. Alcohol can interfere with vitamin B1 absorption, and with overly refined food and long-term use of birth control pills, vitamin B1 deficiency is more likely to occur. It is necessary to prevent overly refined food, avoid alcohol, and take oral vitamin B1 therapy if necessary.
Women with irregular periods, heavy periods or shortened cycles are prone to iron deficiency because of the high loss of magnesium with menstrual blood. Some women do not like to eat meat and fresh vegetables and love to eat candy pastries, and this partial eating habit can also cause insufficient iron intake. Cooking without an iron pot can deprive a person of a source of supplemental iron. Iron deficiency can affect the vitality of many iron-containing enzymes and the formation of red blood cell pigments and myoglobin, making people depressed, sleepy and weak, inattentive, memory impaired, emotionally unstable, impatient and irritable, excited and crying, and with low libido.
Eating sugar and drinking alcohol can increase the body’s zinc consumption, so women who don’t like animal foods, love sweet pastries, and are addicted to alcohol are prone to zinc deficiency. Zinc deficiency can affect a person’s personality and behavior, causing depression and emotional instability, which in turn affects a couple’s normal sex life and causes family discord.
As you can see, after examination to rule out disease factors, in general women who are in a poor mood may be related to nutrient deficiencies and should be supplemented in a timely and symptomatic manner to ensure women’s health and couple harmony.