Can I have sex if I have pelvic inflammation?

Suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease will definitely affect the patient's sexual life, such as the pain making it impossible to enjoy sexual intercourse. So, can couples have sexual intercourse when they have pelvic inflammation? I think young women are more curious about this issue. Patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease during the treatment period and patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease during the subacute onset period cannot have sexual intercourse, but after reliable treatment, the symptoms of patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are effectively controlled and they can still have a normal sexual life.

Generally speaking, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease affects couples' lives in two key ways:

1. Because sexual intercourse aggravates pelvic congestion, and sexual activities can easily cause direct or indirect collisions with inflammatory tissues, causing pain or triggering an acute onset of pelvic inflammatory disease.

2. Because of the collision with inflammatory tissue, it will cause varying degrees of pain during sexual intercourse, which will cause women to be afraid of and disgusted with sexual life. Of course, some women, in order to meet their husbands' requirements, take a tolerant attitude towards this kind of pain, and then there will be no happiness in their sexual life at all. Therefore, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease causes different degrees of harm to women's physical health both physiologically and psychologically.

Patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease during the treatment period and patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease during the subacute stage should not have sexual intercourse, which should be taken seriously. However, if after reliable treatment, the symptoms of patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are effectively controlled, they can still have a normal sexual life.

Whether the condition of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is effectively controlled is determined by the patient's symptoms and clinical signs. After reasonable treatment, patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease will have their lower abdominal pain, heaviness and other symptoms alleviated, and during gynecological examination, they will find that cervical lifting pain and pelvic tenderness have subsided, which can be used as a basis for judging whether the patient can have sexual life.

On the other hand, patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease who can have a normal sexual life should pay attention to the following issues when having sexual life: the frequency of sexual life should be relatively reduced, and the time should not be too long to prevent the pelvic congestion from lasting too long and causing acute attacks. The posture should not be too rough. If the inflamed tissue is impacted and sexual intercourse pain occurs, sexual life will have to be stopped. Therefore, during the treatment of their loved ones, men should accommodate women and do their best to cooperate with women in treatment.

Ways to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease

1. Pay attention to the hygiene of the vagina, especially daily cleaning during menstruation. If you do not pay attention to your vaginal hygiene during menstruation, use unclean sanitary napkins, have sexual intercourse during menstruation, etc., it is easy for the vagina to be invaded by pathogens and cause pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, hygiene during menstruation needs to be taken very seriously. Usually, you should also maintain good vaginal hygiene, wash your underwear frequently, keep your private parts clean and dry, and do not wash the vagina frequently, which can easily destroy the balanced environment of the original beneficial bacteria in the vagina and cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

2. Pay attention to the cleanliness of the couple's sexual life and maintain a proper balance between relaxation and tension. Unclean sexual life between couples is also a key cause of pelvic inflammatory disease. If the couple has sex too frequently, neglects to clean the body before sex, does not urinate or clean up in time after sex, or even has sex during menstruation, the bacteria brought into the vagina from outside will destroy the balance of normal beneficial bacteria in the female vagina, causing the bacteria to grow and multiply rapidly, and the bacteria can spread to the pelvis and cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

3. Use good contraceptive methods to prevent repeated abortions. Repeated abortions are also the cause of pelvic inflammatory disease in many young women. Some women lack the correct attitude towards contraceptive measures and do not adopt appropriate contraceptive methods. When they become pregnant again after an abortion, they think that abortion is not scary and unconsciously regard abortion as a contraceptive method. In addition, going to an unreliable clinic for an abortion can easily cause genital inflammation, and in severe cases even lead to infertility.

4. Improve your own resistance. There are pathogens in the woman's vagina itself. When your resistance is strong, these pathogens will pretend to "keep their place". However, once your immunity is reduced, they will take the opportunity to enter and cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

5. Eat less spicy and cold foods, and keep your lower stomach warm. Some cold drink ingredients may also cause pelvic congestion in women and lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, especially during menstruation. In addition, you should also pay attention to prevent your waist and abdomen from catching cold.

6. Sitting for a long time without moving may also cause pelvic inflammatory disease. Long-term sitting posture and lack of activity can cause obstruction of venous return in the pelvis and excessive blood accumulation, which may lead to pelvic inflammation. It is recommended that people who sit for long periods of time should get up and walk around every once in a while, and exercise more after work.

7. You don’t have to wear tight underwear or tight pants all the time. Women who often wear tight pants or leggings can also become favored targets of pelvic inflammatory disease. It is recommended to wear looser jeans or long skirts. It is best to choose breathable pure cotton underwear, not underwear that is too small or too tight.