Five ways to cope with menstrual cramps

Five ways to cope with menstrual cramps – but if your periods are interfering with your life, seek advice

• In a Guardian health and wellbeing article, gynaecologists give their advice on coping with menstrual cramps
• Up to 20% of women have severe, disruptive period pain according to Clinical Evidence Handbook (A Publication of BMJ Publishing Group)
• But, Dr Caroline Overton a consultant gynaecologist and a spokeswoman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologistspoints out, “if you are having to change the way you dress, miss work or social activities and plan your life around your periods, then your periods are not normal.”
• You can read the full Guardian article; Five ways to cope with Menstrual Cramps