Menorrhagia is defined as a situation of excessive blood loss during menstruation period because of heavy or prolonged (more than seven days) menstrual bleeding. Menorrhagia happen more in overweight women, or women with certain hormonal upsets.

Heavy periods can be severe enough to cause anemia.

Menorrhagia refers to losing 80 milliliters or more of blood during menstrual cycle. In most cases menorrhagia is not due to an underlying medical problem. However, sometimes heavy periods are caused by polyps, pregnancy complication, ovarian dysfunction or intrauterine device.

Diagnosis of heavy menstrual loss is actually based on the patient's history rather than any formal method of measurement amount of blood lost.

Medication treatment can cut down the blood loss. If an underlying cause for the abnormal bleeding is identified, this needs to be treated to stop menorrhagia condition.

If medical forms of management are unsuccessful or unacceptable to the patient, then surgery is the only other alternative. Various forms of minimally invasive surgery are available in order to solve the situation.

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