Menopause and the African woman

12/05/2024

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Menopausal Community Support Initiative (MCSI) is a non-governmental support organization. Our aim is to bridge the gap between menopause and ignorance. Having carefully observed the demographic, we understand that quite a number of women within our area of interest struggle with living their best life during menopausal stages of life. With a basic focus on women in Nigeria and in extention to West African communities, the initiative seeks to enlighten and support women through the stages of menopause. This focus is strictly followed with implementation of projects that requires a great deal of careful planning, communication and team involvement.


Our objectives as a support group includes:

To educate and sensitise ladies and women going through the various transitional stages of menopause and to provide health and material support to them..

To serve as an interest group to address matters of concern to the less privilege and thereby making a positive impact among women in the community.

To increase welfare services to widows, elderly people and under privilege in the community.


Over the years, we have been able to provide women within the community with the basic knowledge of menopausal stages of womanhood and the best way to live with it. Health tips, medical tests, sensitization programmes are a major part of our activity log.

12/05/2024

Kindly follow our new page.

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Thank you

Menopausal Community Support Initiative (MCSI) is a non-governmental support organization. Our aim is to bridge the gap between menopause and ignorance. Having carefully observed the demographic, we understand that quite a number of women within our area of interest struggle with living their best life during menopausal stages of life. With a basic focus on women in Nigeria and in extention to West African communities, the initiative seeks to enlighten and support women through the stages of menopause. This focus is strictly followed with implementation of projects that requires a great deal of careful planning, communication and team involvement.


Our objectives as a support group includes:

To educate and sensitise ladies and women going through the various transitional stages of menopause and to provide health and material support to them..

To serve as an interest group to address matters of concern to the less privilege and thereby making a positive impact among women in the community.

To increase welfare services to widows, elderly people and under privilege in the community.


Over the years, we have been able to provide women within the community with the basic knowledge of menopausal stages of womanhood and the best way to live with it. Health tips, medical tests, sensitization programmes are a major part of our activity log.

17/01/2024

Dental health and hygiene become a concern as women get older. Here are some of the effects menopause can have on your oral health:

1. Dry Mouth:
Dry mouth, or xerostomia, affects about 25% of menopausal women. Aging across the board results in a decrease in saliva flow, and lower levels of estrogen likewise cause decreased saliva production.

2. Burning Mouth:
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS), also known as glossodynia or stomatodynia, affects menopausal women seven times more than it affects men. Burning mouth is described as a burning sensation affecting different areas of the oral cavity, including the tongue, palate, lips and areas of denture support.

3. Tooth Crowding and Loss:
Menopause affects the density of bones throughout the body, including the jawbone, thereby reducing the stronghold the jaw has on teeth.

4. Swollen, irritated gums:
When your hormone levels change, your gums can get swollen and irritated. During these hormonal changes, your gums may be more susceptible to bleeding, because your body's immune systems is more sensitive than usual. This can cause inflammation (redness, swelling and sometimes pain) in the gums.

5. Tooth Decay and Gum Disease:
The many hormonal changes that take place during menopause make the teeth and gums more susceptible to plaque. This leads to a much higher risk for tooth decay, gingivitis (gum inflammation) and advanced gum disease.

28/11/2023

Intentionality is key to achieving results; consistency is an essential tool for success.

As a community, we have continued to encourage consistent lifestyle changes as we go through this phase of womanhood.

Fruits Tuesday is one way we encourage consistency.

14/11/2023

Another leg of the Menopausal Community Support Initiative is to be a source of encouragement to women and our immediate community in general.

As a result, we carried out an outreach where we provided food packs to women in need.

03/11/2023

24/10/2023

It's Tuesday and you know what it is already.

16/10/2023

An Excited Community Member Shares her Story.

04/10/2023

Sharing knowledge is essential for societal growth. It enables learning, innovation, and problem-solving, thereby contributing to a more enlightened and interconnected society.

Menopausal Community Support Initiative is committed to sharing knowledge on ways to make the menopausal woman a more self-aware, confident and cheerful woman.

Captured in pictures is a highlight of our recent engagement session where we shared knowledge about menopause with a cross-section of attentive and inquisitive women.

25/09/2023

Community Engagement:

What is your most intense menopausal symptom?

Let's share together.

18/09/2023

You Can Track Your Water Intake

Some of these smartphone-based apps on your PlayStore or Apple Store can remind you every few hours to have a drink of water and you just tick them off as you drink.

It can also give you a good idea of how much water you have drank during the day.

13/09/2023

MENOPAUSE FATIGUE

• Menopause related fatigue is a potential symptom of menopause. It ranges from very mild to very severe. It is such that the percentage of occurrence increases with age.

• Research shows that 19.7% of women who are not yet in menopause experience this problem, about 45.5% experience it during the menopause transition period, while in the post menopausal period, about 85% of women experience menopause fatigue.

04/09/2023

Menopausal Community Support Initiative is a social community of women in the phases of peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause.

The community, an offspring of a idea incubated off the bounce of personal experiences, is strategically designed to educate, enlighten and provide support for women in the difficult waters of menopause.

Our activities are carefully drafted and religiously followed. Our lecture sessions are very detailed. Our support for each other is sacrosanct. All of these cumulate into the good reports we get which encourages us to keep going.

Hence, we encourage, if you experience something, say something.

31/08/2023

Beautiful Sarah Knows Better.

Wouldn't you want to know more like her?

28/08/2023

Menopausal symptoms are real. Hence, consistent and intentional life style changes are very important.

Here at Menopausal Community, we've identified some which have proven to be very effective; one of which is our water therapy for every Monday.

It's another Monday, take water, water more water, and even more water.

23/08/2023

It is common to experience lapses in memory and concentration during the early and middle stages of menopause. This menopausal memory & concentration loss can be alarming.

Around 60% of women in menopause or perimenopause report feeling like they’re in a “brain fog".

However, memory travelling helps to reactivate your memory senses.

16/08/2023

HOT FLUSHES

Hot flushes is a very common feature of menopause and it is a sensation of intense heat that starts slowly and build up usually starting from the lower part of the body and rises up, then stays for a short while, resolves and then happen again and again. This sensation is very disturbing and can be a common cause of poor sleep when it happens at night leading to insomnia.

Also, it usually comes during stressful and tensed up situation. And, it is also as a result of the reduction in estrogen levels through out the menopause transition level.

To ameliorate the effect of hot flushes, one can:

1. Improve the environment cool and well ventilated.

2. Diet modification especially those with the tendencies of increasing body temperature like spicy food, smoking, high fat diet, alcohol, high sugar diet, etc.

3. Good consumption of soya bean based food.