- Normal amount of menstrual discharge is 30-80 ml, 40-60 on average. However, a woman loses not only blood during menstruation, but also endometrial tissues. So it may make in total 50-150 ml of menstrual discharge. Logically, we can assume that a scanty period is the one when you lose less than 30 ml of menstrual discharge. On the other hand, if you have usually had blood loss of approximately 40 ml, its decrease to 30 ml and more can be considered a scanty period. However, if your normal blood loss is 70 ml, and then you get 40 ml, you’ll suspect there’s something wrong, although that doesn’t necessarily mean you have some health issues. Besides, who knows how much menstrual blood exactly you lose during a period? It’s truly hard to evaluate.
Therefore, it’s more convenient to judge from such factors as period duration and an amount of sanitary pads or tampons you use. If you notice that this time you need to change sanitary pads not so often as before, you need to think why your period has become uncommonly scanty. If the situation repeats the next cycle, consult your gynecologist.
Hypomenorrhea & Other Conditions, Characterized By Weakening Of Menstrual Function
- Hypomenorrhea, as it has been already mentioned, is scanty, short or light period. The amount of blood loss, typical for hypomenorrhea is less than 25 ml.
- Oligomenorrhea is a short period, shorter than 3 days.
- Opsomenorrhea is an extremely long interval between periods – 5-8 weeks.
- Spaniomenorrhea are very rare periods, like only 4 times a year, for instance.