What are the dangers of uterine enlargement?

As a woman, you must take better care of your body. After all, the female body structure is very complex. There is a physiological cycle every month, and the uterus is a particularly important part for women. However, once the uterus has a disease, it will have a great impact on women. For example, irregular menstruation or fertility problems will cause harm. Among them, enlarged uterus is a disease that many girls have experienced. This disease is also very harmful. In order to allow more women to adapt, let’s take a look at the dangers of enlarged uterus.

The dangers of uterine enlargement

The main symptoms are excessive menstrual flow and prolonged duration. There are also cases where the cycle is shortened to about 20 days with no significant change in the menstrual flow and duration. Or there may be a prolonged menstrual period but not much menstrual flow.

Most of the patients are multiparous women, and most of them have given birth to three or more children. They have been ill for a long time, and those with heavy bleeding appear anemic. Gynecological examination shows that the uterus is uniformly enlarged, generally the size of 6 weeks gestation, and a few are larger than 8 weeks gestation. The texture is tough, and the bilateral ovaries may be slightly enlarged, with multiple follicular cysts.

The basic pathological changes of this disease are changes in smooth muscle cells and blood vessel walls in the myometrium.

(I) Gross findings: The uterus is uniformly enlarged, with myometrial hypertrophy of 2.5 to 3.2 cm, grayish white or pink in cross section, increased hardness, woven fiber bundles, vascular protrusions in the outer 1/3 of the myometrium, normal or thickened endometrium, and sometimes small leiomyoma (less than 1 cm in diameter) or endometrial polyps can be seen.

(B) Microscopic examination: The images are inconsistent and have the following forms: ① Simple smooth muscle cell hypertrophy, which is the same as the normal uterine myometrium under microscopic observation, without collagen fiber proliferation and no obvious changes in the blood vessel wall; ② Collagen fiber proliferation in the uterine myometrium, forming uterine fibrosis; ③ Changes in the blood vessel wall in the myometrium: The arteries and veins are obviously dilated, and there are clusters of elastic fibers proliferating around the new blood vessels.

Preventive Care

Since the causes of the disease are multifaceted, some of them can be prevented, such as family planning and prevention of postpartum infection. Those with poor postpartum uterine contraction should be given uterine contraction drugs in time, and attention should be paid to proper prone or knee-chest position and postpartum exercise to prevent uterine retroversion, reduce pelvic congestion, actively treat ovarian dysfunction, and avoid continuous stimulation of estrogen.

It is particularly important for women to have a healthy body, especially gynecological diseases must be avoided as much as possible. The above is an introduction to the hazards of uterine enlargement. After understanding it, female friends must pay great attention to it and observe their leucorrhea more often. If there are abnormal leucorrhea or symptoms such as irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Many gynecological diseases will be reflected in leucorrhea.