Does pelvic inflammation affect pregnancy?

In recent years, pelvic inflammatory disease has become a hot topic, and many women are paying more attention to it and are always vigilant and taking precautions. So do we ladies have a deep enough understanding of pelvic inflammatory disease, or is it just superficial? I think most people have a relatively superficial understanding of it, so here we need to understand it carefully with everyone, especially female friends who are preparing to get pregnant. So, will pelvic inflammation affect pregnancy? Once a problem that may affect pregnancy arises, it must be resolved before pregnancy to prevent affecting the growth and development of the fetus.

Does pelvic inflammatory disease affect pregnancy?

Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to a group of infectious diseases of the female upper reproductive system, mainly including endometritis, salpingitis, bilateral tubal uterine and ovarian cysts, and pelvic peritonitis. Inflammation may be limited to one site or may affect multiple sites at the same time, with salpingitis and bilateral salpingo-oophoritis being the most common. Pelvic inflammatory disease mostly occurs in women who are sexually active and menstruating. It rarely occurs in women before their first menstruation, without sexual life, and after menopause. When it occurs directly, it is often the spread of inflammation of adjacent organs.

If pelvic inflammatory disease is not treated promptly and completely, it can cause infertility, tubal pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain, and recurrent inflammation, which will seriously affect women's reproductive health and increase the financial burden on families and society. Pelvic inflammatory disease can be caused by exogenous and endogenous pathogens. It can be caused by sexual activity, lower reproductive system infection, post-operative infection of the uterus, poor sexual hygiene, direct spread of inflammation of adjacent organs, and recurrence of acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

Pelvic inflammatory disease may have different clinical symptoms depending on the severity and extent of the inflammation. In mild cases, there may be no obvious symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease, or gynecological examination may only reveal pain when lifting the cervix, tenderness in the uterine body, or tenderness in the adnexal area. In severe cases, the patient may have flushed face, increased body temperature, accelerated heart rate, tenderness and rebound pain in the lower abdomen, and tension in the abdominal muscles, and even abdominal distension, weakened or disappeared bowel sounds, etc.

There are two major types of pelvic inflammatory disease: subacute and chronic, as follows:

1. Acute pelvic inflammation

The symptoms are lower abdominal pain, fever, increased secretions in women, and the abdominal pain is persistent and aggravated by activity or sexual intercourse. If the condition worsens, there may be chills, high fever, headache, and loss of appetite. Those who develop the disease during the menstrual period may experience increased menstrual volume and prolonged menstrual duration. If the pelvic inflammatory cysts produce pelvic abscesses, it can cause local compression symptoms. The compressed bladder can cause frequent urination, urgency, pain, and difficulty urinating. Compression of the duodenum may cause frequent urge to defecate and a feeling of urgency after defecation, as well as symptoms of diarrhea or constipation. Further development of acute pelvic inflammatory disease can cause local peritonitis, sepsis, septic shock, and in severe cases can seriously endanger life.

2. Chronic pelvic inflammation

This is because the acute pelvic inflammatory disease cannot be completely cured or the patient's physical constitution is weak, and the current medical history has changed. The symptoms of chronic pelvic inflammation are lower abdominal pain, pain and lumbar pain, which are often aggravated by fatigue, after sexual life, and before and after menstruation. The second is irregular menstruation. Some women with a long history of illness may experience neurasthenia symptoms such as listlessness, general malaise, and insomnia. It is usually difficult to heal and recurs frequently, causing infertility and fallopian tube pregnancy, which seriously affects women's physical and mental health.

Common preventive measures for pelvic inflammatory disease include:

1. Pay attention to environmental hygiene during menstruation.

2. Pay attention to the hygiene of the living environment of couples.

3. Clean private parts.

4. Prevent before and after surgery.

5. Complete recovery from acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

6. Treat vaginitis immediately.