Examples of menses

• Figure 1 depicts the lag from introduction of supplementary foods to resumption of menses in the two groups.

• The heavy ver tical dashed lines signify the star t of menses.

• A few women were still flushing more than 7 years after their final menses.

• Based on women whose menses returned: t 3 or more months, 2 or more months, 1 or more months since childbirth.

• All types of sensitivities tended to be lowest premenstrually or just after the star t of menses.

• Retrograded menses enter the peritoneal cavity and, by some unknown mechanism, reside and survive.

• No puncture site or ischaemic complication was encountered, and normal menses resumed in all but the patient who underwent hysterectomy.

• In this model, retrograded menses causes inflammation in the pelvic cavity and the recruitment of macrophages and other immune cells.