What are the symptoms of pelvic inflammation?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common gynecological inflammation. Generally, pelvic inflammatory disease is divided into chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Women must seek timely treatment after suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease is easy to recur. If pelvic inflammatory disease is not treated in time and becomes chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, it will have a great impact on women's health. In severe cases, it may also affect women's fertility. What are the symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease?

1. Feeling tired easily: Could fatigue be related to pelvic inflammatory disease? Indeed, the systemic symptoms of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are mostly not obvious, and sometimes there may be a low fever and easy fatigue. The course of the disease is long, and some patients may have symptoms of neurasthenia.

2. Lower abdominal distension and lumbar pain: Scar adhesions caused by chronic inflammation and pelvic congestion can cause lower abdominal distension, pain and lumbar pain, which often worsens after fatigue, sexual intercourse, and before and after menstruation.

3. Menstruation is different from before: Patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease may have increased menstruation, ovarian dysfunction may cause menstrual disorders, and adhesion and blockage of the fallopian tubes may cause infertility.

In addition, the symptoms of acute pelvic inflammatory disease are lower abdominal pain, fever, increased vaginal discharge, and persistent abdominal pain that worsens after activity or sexual intercourse. If the condition is severe, there may be chills, high fever, headache, and loss of appetite. Those who develop the disease during menstruation may experience increased menstrual flow and prolonged menstrual period. If pelvic inflammatory disease forms a pelvic abscess, it may cause local compression symptoms. Compression of the bladder may cause frequent urination, painful urination, and difficulty urinating; compression of the rectum may cause frequent urge to defecate and a feeling of incomplete defecation after defecation, as well as symptoms of diarrhea or constipation. Further development of acute pelvic inflammatory disease can cause diffuse peritonitis, sepsis, septic shock, and in severe cases can be life-threatening.

Prevention of pelvic inflammatory disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to inflammation of the female upper reproductive tract and surrounding tissues, usually involving multiple sites, and is a common gynecological disease. The disease is very likely to cause repeated attacks and has a long course, seriously affecting the patient's life and work.

1. Pay attention to menstrual hygiene. During menstruation, the endometrium is exfoliated and bleeding occurs, and the cervix opens. If you do not pay attention to hygiene, it may lead to ascending infection of bacteria and cause pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, you should avoid sexual intercourse, swimming, and bathing during menstruation, and do not use unclean sanitary pads to prevent pelvic infection.

2. Pay attention to sexual hygiene. Pelvic inflammatory disease often occurs in women who are sexually active, especially those who have their first sexual intercourse at a young age, have multiple sexual partners, have frequent sexual intercourse, or whose sexual partners have sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, you should wash your vulva with clean water before and after sexual intercourse to stay away from infection by sexually transmitted diseases.

4. Prevention before and after surgery. During childbirth, artificial abortion, and reproductive tract surgery such as IUD insertion and removal, pathogens can invade the pelvic connective tissue and other parts of the internal reproductive organs through trauma to the vulva, vagina, cervix, and uterine body, causing acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, avoid sexual intercourse 3 days before the operation and take care to keep the vulva clean. Vaginal bleeding is common after surgery. Sexual intercourse, swimming and bathing should be avoided until the body recovers. It is best to have a normal and clean menstruation before resuming sexual life, and take preventive antibiotics as prescribed by your doctor.

5. Completely cure acute pelvic inflammatory disease. If acute pelvic inflammatory disease is not completely cured, it may turn into chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, acute pelvic inflammatory disease should be treated thoroughly, and antibiotics should be used in sufficient doses and for sufficient courses as prescribed by the doctor, and combined with Chinese medicine preparations for treatment. Patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease should not overwork to avoid worsening of symptoms. Treatment should not be based on temporary relief of symptoms as the standard of cure. Medication should be stopped only after a doctor's examination confirms that the patient is cured.

6. Treat vaginitis promptly. Vaginitis is a very common gynecological disease and you must go to a regular hospital for medical treatment in time. Do not take any medicine on your own, and do not listen to advertisements and go to see quack doctors.