A meme recently doing rounds on social media was around giving birth to jelly fishes during periods. It's inexplicable how the internet is playing a part in normalising periods and everything that comes with them. However, sometimes, it's imperative for us to know more than what the social media offers. Clotting during periods is absolutely common but is it also healthy? Here's looking at it.

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Menstruation can vary from woman and woman and in each one, from month to month. The heaviness, length and frequency of bleeding is not consistent. As per doctors, clotting during period is absolutely normal. However, what you need to pay heed to is the size of the clots.

Many women experience clotting during their periods and it usually occurs in the heavy flow days. The period clots are prevented by anticoagulants produced by your body and yet, there are clots that still remain and come out with your flow. An occasional flow and small amount of clots that are small in size is considered absolutely normal.

However, if the size of the blood clot is same as or larger than a golf ball, it signals that something's not right with your health and hence, your body needs an evaluation by a doctor. Excessive and larger clotting can have multiple underlying causes, such as uterine fibroids, miscarriage, menopause, endometriosis, endometrial cancer, weight changes, etc. If you think that your periods are heavier than usual and you are incurring a significant blood loss, it can be characterized by fatigue, pale skin, lightheadedness and anemia. In such a situation, it is best that you seek a gynaecologist.

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