Talk:Mittelschmerz

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I believe there is a medieval use of this word that was not related to menses... anyone, anyone? I think it is related to the vernal equinox? --Renice 16:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OED citations[edit]

I'm storing these notes on usage from the OED here until I (or someone else) can incorporate relevant parts:

Brit.
/mɪtlʃmɛɪts/,
/mɪtlʃməɪts/, U.S. /mɪdlʃmɛ(ə)rts/ Forms: 18- Mittelschmerz, 19- mittelschmertz, mittelschmerz. [< German Mittelschmerz, lit. ‘middle pain’ (1875 or earlier) < mittel MIDDLE a. + Schmerz SCHMERZ n.] Lower abdominal pain occurring in the middle of the menstrual cycle in some women, thought to be related to the occurrence of ovulation.

1890 J. S. BILLINGS National Med. Dict. II. 162/2 Mittelschmerz, intermenstrual pain.

1893 S. POZZI Treat. Gynaecol. II. iv. 287 The so-called inter-menstrual dysmenorrhœa (‘Mittelschmerz’ of German writers) is only called dysmenorrhœa by a misapplication of the term.

1895 Lancet 28 Dec. 1625/1 Dr. J. Halliday Croom read a paper on So-called Mittelschmerz, sometimes called a form of dysmenorrh{oe}a.

1942 C. MAZER & S. L. ISRAEL Diagnosis & Treatm. Menstrual Disorders ix. 135 The pain undoubtedly emanates from the ovaries, since neither hysterectomy nor resection of the presacral nerve..eliminates mittelschmerz, but bilateral oophorectomy does. *1971 Vogue Nov. 60/2 Have intercourse as near ovulation as possible. This can be detected..by the pain that some women experience (Mittelschmerz).

1993 Mother & Baby Feb. 80/4 The pains are called ‘mittelschmertz’ (middle pains) and are quite common.

--Renice 16:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Self Treatment for Mittelschmerz Pain[edit]

Section is stylistically all wrong, starting with the allcaps in the title through to the fact that it's in the second person and just generally inappropriate for an encyclopaedic article - this looks like general pain-relief advice to me, which could be readily collapsed to a single sentence/clause ("Self-treatment, e.g. blah, may be appropriate") in the Treatment section... Kaberett (talk) 10:26, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

six and eight glasses of water every day[edit]

This recommendation is dangerous nonsense. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that consuming that much water could lead to a degree of overhydration that might, in turn, lead to serious health problems.

Cf: Valtin H. “Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.” Really? Is there scientific evidence for “8 × 8”? Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol2002;283:R993-1004.

also...

Negoianu D, Goldfarb S. Just add water. J Am Soc Nephrol2008;19:1041-3. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.42.140.89 (talk) 16:11, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this article.[edit]

This article does not cite any reliable medical sources and many of its claims are not backed up in the scientific literature. Based on the sources, it looks like it was written by somebody with an axe to grind against contraception. As such, it may have been inentionally written to misinform. Please consider deleting this article entirely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:A807:7810:A8BD:9BED:335C:63B9 (talk) 16:38, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]