Will applying for a menstrual health certificate have any impact?

If you apply for a regular occupational health certificate normally, your menstrual period will basically not have any impact. Only a small number of special health certificates that include additional items such as gynecological examination and urine routine may need to adjust the examination time.

I had encountered this problem before when I accompanied my best friend to apply for a health certificate for a catering industry. On the first day she came to visit my aunt, she still had a stomachache. She stood at the door of the hall and hesitated for a long time, afraid that she would run away in vain. However, the guide asked her to find out that she was applying for a health certificate for ordinary food, and directly assured her to go in. He said that the routine examinations such as liver function, chest X-ray, fecal pathogen screening, and skin examination were not related to the menstrual cycle and would not affect the results at all. She drew two tubes of blood, took a chest X-ray, and took a stool sample that day. The whole process was completed in less than 20 minutes. Three days later, she received the certificate with no abnormalities.

As for the questions that people often worry about, "Will blood draws during menstruation hurt the body?" and "Will it affect liver function results?", they are all over-concerns. The blood collection for health certificates only requires 2-3 tubes, and the total bleeding volume is less than 10ml, which is not as good as a fraction of the bleeding volume during a menstrual period. It will not cause problems such as anemia at all.； As long as you don’t stay up late, drink too much, or eat too much food heavy in oil and salt in the week before the test, there will be no abnormal fluctuations in liver function and blood routine indicators during menstruation, which will not affect the judgment of the results at all.

Of course, many doctors and nurses will suggest that it is best to avoid applying for a health certificate during menstruation. This is not to say that it will have any big impact. The main reason is that if your health certificate requires additional items such as urine routine, gynecological leucorrhea examination, and cervical scraping, menstruation can easily interfere with the results. For example, if menstrual blood is accidentally mixed in when urinating, the urine routine results will show an abnormal increase in red blood cells, which can easily be misjudged as urinary system inflammation or kidney problems. Gynecological examinations cannot be performed during menstruation. If you encounter this situation, don’t panic. Just explain to the blood collection or registration staff that you are in your menstrual period. You can either finish other items that are not affected first and wait 3-7 days after your menstrual period to make up for these two items. Or you can just postpone your visit for a few days. The time of most health certificate processing points is now quite relaxed, and it will not delay things if you are three to five days late.

If you happen to catch up and your aunt is in a hurry to get the certificate, you can bring two extra auntie towels with you when you go. Just be careful not to get menstrual blood when taking stool samples. If you really need to have a urine test, mention your menstrual period to the doctor, and they will mark it clearly for you and won't judge you as unqualified casually.