How to avoid pelvic inflammatory disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common gynecological disease, which can be divided into acute and chronic types. How can you completely stay away from pelvic inflammatory disease? Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to inflammation of the female internal reproductive organs such as the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries and their surrounding connective tissue and pelvic peritoneum. Due to its anatomical characteristics, the uterus is connected to the outside world through the vagina and is easily invaded and infected by pathogens. Once infection occurs, the pathogens can travel along the fallopian tube mucosa to the ovaries and reach the pelvic cavity, causing pelvic inflammatory disease.

Acute pelvic inflammatory disease has an acute onset, severe condition, obvious abdominal pain, and is often accompanied by high fever. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is mostly caused by incomplete treatment of acute pelvic inflammatory disease and prolonged illness. Sometimes it can also be latent onset, with no history of acute pelvic inflammatory disease. When the body's resistance is reduced, patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease may have acute attacks.

Recent studies have shown that chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is actually a sequela of acute pelvic inflammatory disease, which causes adhesion and thickening of pelvic tissue and obstruction of fallopian tubes. On this basis, it is more likely to recur and suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease.

So how to stay away from "pelvic inflammatory disease"?

Measure 1: Prevention before and after surgery. Stay away from pelvic inflammatory disease after artificial abortion and other gynecological surgeries. During childbirth, artificial abortion, and reproductive tract surgeries such as IUD insertion and removal, pathogens can invade the pelvic connective tissue and other parts of the internal reproductive organs through the trauma of the vulva, vagina, cervix, and uterine body, causing acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, avoid sexual intercourse three 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 bleeding stops and the body recovers. It is best to have a normal menstrual period before resuming normal sexual life, and take preventive antibiotics as prescribed by your doctor. This can help keep you away from pelvic inflammatory disease that can result from obstetric and gynecological surgery.

Measure 2: Completely cure acute pelvic inflammatory disease to prevent it from becoming chronic, lingering, or recurring. If acute pelvic inflammatory disease is not completely cured, it may become chronic and recur. Therefore, acute pelvic inflammatory disease should be treated actively and thoroughly. The patient should rest in bed or take a semi-recumbent position to facilitate the localization of inflammation and the discharge of secretions. Antibiotics should be used in sufficient amounts and for a sufficient course of treatment as prescribed by the doctor, and combined with treatment with Chinese medicine preparations. Patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease should not overwork, combine work and rest, and exercise in moderation 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. Prevent the disease from recurring and disturbing your life.

Measure 3: Treat vulvovaginitis promptly to prevent ascending infection of pathogens. Vulvovaginitis is a very common gynecological disease. If you experience changes in vulvovaginal itching, increased leucorrhea, yellow color, bean curd-like, watery, or foul-smelling discharge, you may be suffering from vulvovaginitis and you must seek medical treatment at a regular hospital in time. Do not avoid seeing a doctor, take medicine on your own, and do not believe advertisements and seek help from quack doctors; delaying diagnosis and treatment will allow the infection to spread upward and lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.

Measure 4: Pay attention to menstrual hygiene to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease, endometrial exfoliation and bleeding during menstruation, and cervical opening. 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 inflammatory disease.

Measure 5: Pay attention to sexual hygiene and stay away from sexually transmitted diseases. 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. This is related to the outward migration of the cervical columnar epithelium, the weakening of the defense mechanism, and the susceptibility to infection through sexual intercourse when the sexual partner has a sexually transmitted disease. Therefore, you should pay attention to sexual hygiene and wash the vulva with clean water before and after sexual intercourse. If you have a sexually transmitted disease, you should refrain from sexual intercourse until you are cured and stay away from infection by sexually transmitted disease pathogens.

Measure 6: Developing good vaginal cleaning habits is an important guarantee to stay away from pelvic inflammatory disease and eliminate various infection routes. 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 is not only likely to destroy the vagina's own defense mechanism, cause dysbacteriosis and lead to infection, but also when the pressure of the douche is too high, the bacterial flushing fluid may be directly injected into the uterine cavity, causing acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

Studies have shown that women who frequently do vaginal douching have a high incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease. During pelvic inflammatory disease, the amount of leucorrhea is large and sticky, so you should change your underwear frequently and avoid wearing tight or synthetic underwear. Don't use sanitary pads to save trouble. First, sanitary pads will affect the breathability of the perineum and easily breed bacterial infection. Second, you may use sanitary pads that do not meet hygiene standards, which will make infection more likely.

Measure seven: Maintaining an optimistic attitude towards life will help you stay away from pelvic inflammatory disease. The genitals in our reproductive system contain pathogenic bacteria. When you are physically strong, you generally do not get sick. However, due to some reasons that cause your resistance to decrease, sometimes pathogenic bacteria will multiply and cause pelvic inflammatory disease. When you are under mental stress, depression, or in poor physical condition, you are prone to various diseases, and pelvic inflammatory disease is no exception.

In clinical practice, most women who come for treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease are white-collar women, belonging to this type: they are business backbones in the unit, busy and stressful at work, and cannot leave their jobs; they are the pillars of the family, with their children going to school, the elderly being sick, and they are needed for everything. I have to study, recharge myself, catch up on plans, and make reports late at night; I am not confident in other people's work, and I am too busy to do it myself. Poor physical condition, bad mood, fatigue, discomfort, and irritable temper. These women often have weakened immune function and are prone to pelvic inflammatory disease, which is difficult to recover from. When her physical condition is good, she may not have any symptoms, but during menstruation, after sexual intercourse, or during fatigue, cold, anger and other triggering factors, her symptoms may worsen.

If you want to keep pelvic inflammatory disease away from yourself, you need to arrange your work, life, and family well; set aside time for yourself to exercise and cheer yourself up, strengthen your physical fitness, and maintain an optimistic attitude towards life.

Measure 8: Pay attention to dietary conditioning and eat less raw, cold and irritating foods. Patients with pelvic inflammatory disease should pay attention to dietary conditioning and strengthen nutrition. During the fever period, it is advisable to eat light and easily digestible food. Patients with high fever and loss of body fluid can be given pear juice, apple juice, watermelon juice, etc. to drink, but they should not be drunk after being chilled. According to traditional Chinese medicine, patients with yellow, heavy, and thick leucorrhea are suffering from damp-heat syndrome, and should avoid fried, greasy, and spicy foods. Patients with cold pain in the lower abdomen, fear of cold, and sore waist are suffering from cold stagnation and qi stagnation, and can be given warm foods such as ginger soup, brown sugar water, and cinnamon pulp. Those with fever in the five hearts and low back pain are mostly suffering from kidney yin deficiency, and can eat meat, eggs, and other blood and flesh products to nourish and strengthen the body. Eat less raw, cold food.