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Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed 95:199-203 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175802
  • Review

Common menstrual problems in adolescence

  1. Diana J Fothergill
  1. Correspondence to Diana J Fothergill, The Jessop Wing, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tree Root Walk, Sheffield S10 2SF, UK; diana.fothergill{at}sth.nhs.uk
  • Accepted 19 April 2010
  • Published Online First 30 July 2010

Abstract

Many girls tell their general practitioners and paediatricians about problems with their periods. This article focuses on a practical approach to managing menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, oligomenorrhoea and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and reviews the literature on this topic.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None.

  • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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