What are the symptoms of fallopian tube inflammation?

Many families break up because both parties cannot get pregnant. Some are due to the men's reasons, but the women's reasons cannot be ignored. Take the women's bilateral fallopian tubes as an example. When the bilateral fallopian tubes become inflamed, they may be blocked, leading to infertility. So, what is salpingitis? How did it happen? Let’s learn it together below.

1. Causes of salpingitis

Salpingitis is not common among pregnant women. The cause of the disease is due to infection by pathogens. The main pathogens are Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Chlamydia, Proteus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycoplasma, etc. The most vulnerable time to infection is after childbirth, abortion or menstruation. Damage to the birth canal and placental detachment surface caused by childbirth or miscarriage, or wounds caused by the shedding of the uterine wall during menstruation, are all ways for pathogens to infect the internal organs.

Sometimes the infection is related to lax aseptic surgical procedures, such as IUD placement, dilation and curettage, tubal hydrotubation, and lipiodol irradiation. Frequent sexual intercourse between couples and sexual intercourse during menstruation can also cause infection and produce salpingitis. In very few cases, the disease spreads directly from adjacent organs, such as appendicitis or infection elsewhere in the body that spreads through menstruation to the fallopian tubes, causing infection.

The first site of salpingitis is usually the endometrium of the bilateral fallopian tubes, causing endometrial swelling, interstitial edema, hematoma and extravasation. The epithelial cells of the bilateral fallopian tube mucosa fall off, causing the mucosa to adhere to each other or the ends of the bilateral fallopian tubes to adhere, resulting in lumen closure and infertility.

2. What are the symptoms of salpingitis?

The symptoms of bilateral fallopian tube inflammation mainly include the following aspects:

(1) Excessive leucorrhea: Symptoms of excessive leucorrhea may occur, and some patients may not have any active symptoms except infertility;

(2) Menstrual pain: Most people experience abdominal pain starting one week before menstruation, which becomes more severe as the menstrual period approaches, until menarche.

(3) Menstrual irregularities: Frequent menstruation and excessive menstrual flow are the most common symptoms of salpingitis.

(4) Infertility: The bilateral fallopian tubes are damaged by lesions, resulting in blockage and infertility, with secondary infertility being the most common.

(5) Abdominal pain: Dull pain, soreness, swelling, and a feeling of heaviness in the lower back, back, and sacrum, often aggravated by fatigue, and symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and inability to hold urine.

3. Treatment measures for salpingitis

(1) Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of fallopian tube obstruction is blood stasis, so it adjusts the body's circulatory system by removing blood stasis and reducing inflammation;

(2) Western medical treatment. Western medicine generally uses anti-inflammatory drugs and surgical removal of the disease.