8 bad habits that cause pelvic inflammatory disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to inflammation of the female internal reproductive organs, the surrounding connective tissue, and the pelvic peritoneum. As the pace of social life accelerates, pelvic inflammatory disease is becoming more and more rampant. Some bad habits in daily life can cause you to be quietly targeted by pelvic inflammatory disease!

1. Not paying attention to hygiene during menstruation

During the menstrual period, the exfoliation of the endometrium causes the blood sinuses to expand, creating a good environment for the growth of bacteria. If you do not pay attention to personal vaginal hygiene at this time, use unclean sanitary napkins, have sexual intercourse during menstruation, etc., it is easy for pathogens to invade the reproductive tract and spread upward, causing pelvic inflammatory disease.

You should also keep your vagina clean and hygienic at ordinary times, change your underwear frequently, and keep your private parts clean and dry.

Some women think that keeping the vagina clean means doing more vaginal douching. In fact, this will destroy the original balanced environment of the vaginal flora and make it more likely to cause pelvic inflammatory disease. In clinical practice, we have seen many patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease such as hydrosalpinx, and many of them have this bad habit. So, sisters, if your doctor does not recommend vaginal douching due to reasons such as vaginitis, do not douching on your own.

2. Excessive sex life and lack of attention to cleanliness

Improper sexual intercourse is also an important cause of pelvic inflammatory disease. If you have sex too frequently, ignore local cleaning before sex, fail to urinate or clean in time after repeated sex, or even have sex during menstruation, these bad habits will cause bacteria brought into the vagina from the outside to destroy the balance of normal flora in the vagina, causing the bacteria to grow and multiply rapidly, leading to the bacteria ascending to the pelvic cavity and causing pelvic inflammatory disease.

So, sisters, while enjoying sex, remember to protect your own treasure bowl.

3. Low immunity

There are pathogenic bacteria in the female vagina. When you are physically strong, these bacteria will not come out to cause trouble. Once your resistance is reduced, pathogenic bacteria will take the opportunity to enter and cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

Therefore, sisters, you should pay attention to strengthening your physical fitness and improving your own resistance. The most important things to improve your physical fitness are a regular lifestyle, diet, proper exercise, and maintaining a good attitude.

4. Recurrent miscarriage

Repeated abortions are also the cause of pelvic inflammatory disease in many young women. Nowadays, most abortions are painless, which reduces the pain of abortion. However, this causes some women to mistakenly believe that abortion is no big deal. If they do not take good contraceptive measures during sexual intercourse, they can easily get pregnant. Many women think that regular hospitals have too many people and that examinations are troublesome, so they choose to go to some informal clinics for irregular, unhygienic and unsafe abortion operations, which leads to adverse consequences such as genital inflammation.

Therefore, first of all, you should take good contraception when you do not want to have children. Secondly, for all reproductive tract surgeries including abortion, IUD insertion, IUD removal, cervical surgery, etc., it is best to go to a regular hospital. Regular hospitals have strict disinfection and a strong concept of sterility, and are less likely to cause pelvic inflammatory disease due to infection.

5. Love wearing tight pants

Women who often wear tight underwear or tight jeans are also prone to pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, when choosing underwear, it is best to choose breathable cotton underwear that is not too small or too tight.

Finally, once pelvic inflammatory disease is diagnosed, you must go to a regular hospital to seek professional doctors for timely, standardized and thorough treatment.

6. Sitting for a long time

Sitting for long periods of time may also lead to pelvic inflammatory disease. Many office women often sit in the office to process documents and maintain a sitting posture for a long time. Due to lack of activity, the pelvic venous return is blocked and excessive blood stasis leads to pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, pelvic inflammatory disease has become a common gynecological disease for many office women who sit for a long time.

It is recommended that female friends who often sit in the office can stand up and walk around after sitting for a long time, and participate in some sports activities such as yoga after get off work.

7. Not paying attention to your diet

Pay attention to your diet, eat less spicy and cold food, and keep your lower abdomen warm. Frequently eating some chilled food will cause congestion in the female pelvis and induce pelvic inflammatory disease. Especially during menstruation, you should avoid eating raw and cold food.

Similarly, when staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time, you should also pay attention to keeping your lower abdomen warm to avoid getting cold in the waist and abdomen.

8. Bad living habits

Taking a bath during menstruation is a common trigger. Because the body's resistance decreases during menstruation, when the lower body is soaked in water, the pathogenic bacteria in the water can ascend through the vagina and enter the internal reproductive organs.

Similarly, swimming during menstruation makes it easier for bacteria in the water to enter the vagina, and then enter the uterus and fallopian tubes, causing inflammation.