What to do if you have fluid accumulation during pregnancy?

When a family learns that their wife is pregnant, the whole family will be immersed in a joyful atmosphere. However, if you are a first-time father, you need to pay special attention to the physical and emotional changes of the pregnant woman. Because many pregnant women will have complicated moods after becoming pregnant, and their diet will also change. In addition, some pregnant women may also experience some fluid accumulation during pregnancy. So, what to do if you have fluid accumulation during pregnancy?

Pelvic effusion refers to the presence of inflammatory exudate in the pelvic cavity. It can occur after the endometrium becomes inflamed. It is a slightly viscous fluid that exudes from the swollen cells of the endometrial tissue and is gradually wrapped by the surrounding tissue to form a cystic mass. Because the pelvic cavity is the lowest part of the abdominal cavity in the whole body, when there is exudate or transudate, it will be drained into the pelvic cavity, thus forming pelvic effusion.

Some normal women will have a small amount of blood accumulate in the pelvic cavity during menstruation or ovulation, forming pelvic effusion. Such pelvic effusion is sometimes a good thing, which proves that the woman's fallopian tube is unobstructed and there is exudation in the fallopian tube. If the umbrella end is unobstructed, a small amount of exudate will flow into the pelvic cavity, thus forming pelvic effusion.

Clinically, pelvic effusion in most women is caused by inflammation, which is the presence of inflammatory exudate in the pelvis. If not treated, it can gradually grow. If it is too large, it cannot be easily eliminated by medication and surgery is required.

The main hazards of pelvic effusion are

1. Impact on normal life: Since pelvic effusion often causes female friends to experience lower abdominal pain, anal distension, back pain, or sudden lower abdominal pain that gradually turns into distension and pain, which worsens during activities, it will seriously affect the normal life of female friends and bring them many inconveniences. Therefore, female friends must seize the time to seek treatment after suffering from this disease.

2. Harm to other organs: If women with pelvic effusion do not seek timely treatment, inflammation of the surrounding pelvic tissues may spread and affect other organs in the pelvic area. If you usually have lower abdominal pain, lumbosacral pain, increased vaginal discharge, lower abdominal tenderness and cord-like thickening during gynecological examination, etc., chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is considered and active treatment is needed to prevent worsening inflammation and increased fluid accumulation.

3. Cause infertility: Pelvic effusion has another major harm, which is that it will affect women’s fertility and cause infertility. If there are chronic infection lesions, it may be an inflammation of the gynecological system such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes, or it may be caused by tuberculosis or tumors. If not treated in time, it may affect the fimbria of the fallopian tube and cause inflammatory adhesions, fallopian tube blockage, etc., leading to infertility.

If pelvic effusion is not treated for a long time or is not completely cured, it may turn into chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Although pelvic effusion is very harmful to women, as long as it is discovered as early as possible and effective methods are taken in time for treatment, the disease can still be cured so that you can successfully realize your dream of becoming a mother. Therefore, once a woman finds that she has pelvic fluid effusion, she should go to a regular hospital for treatment as soon as possible and should not delay to avoid causing more harm. Temporary relief of symptoms should not be used as a criterion for cure, and it should be coordinated with lifestyle adjustments and prevention of recurrence.

Pay attention to pelvic effusion in daily health care

1. Eat more light food

The diet should be mainly light food. Eat more nutritious foods such as eggs, tofu, red beans, spinach, etc. Avoid eating raw, cold and irritating foods.

2. Pay attention to personal hygiene

Strengthen personal hygiene during menstruation, after childbirth, and after miscarriage, change underwear and sanitary napkins frequently, avoid colds, and avoid overwork.

3. Avoid unnecessary gynecological examinations

Try to avoid unnecessary gynecological examinations to prevent the infection from spreading and the inflammation from spreading.

4. Avoid sexual intercourse during menstruation

Avoid sexual intercourse during menstruation to avoid infection. Pay attention to the cleanliness of menstrual pads, it is best to use sterilized toilet paper.

5. Maintain an optimistic attitude towards life

The reproductive system's genitals themselves contain pathogenic bacteria. When the body is relatively strong, the disease generally does not occur. However, due to some reasons that cause the resistance to decrease, pathogenic bacteria sometimes multiply and cause pelvic inflammatory disease. When you are under mental stress, depression, or in poor physical condition, you are prone to various diseases.

6. Develop good genital cleaning habits

Keep the perineum clean and dry, and wash the vulva with warm water every night. Do not use soap or various care liquids or medicines to wash the vulva, so as not to affect the vulva's own defense mechanism. Each person should use his or her own basin. Do not use your hands to clean the vagina. It is even more not recommended to use a douche to flush the vagina. This will not only easily destroy the vagina's own defense mechanism, cause dysbacteriosis and lead to infection, but also when the douche pressure is too high, the contaminated douche may be directly injected into the uterine cavity, causing acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

Through the above detailed introduction, I hope that the issue of fluid accumulation during pregnancy can attract everyone's attention. Because you should know that fluid accumulation during pregnancy can cause great harm to the health of pregnant women. If it is not handled carefully, the pregnant woman and the baby will be harmed in the end. So at this time, it is recommended that everyone should be cautious.