Is steaming good for pelvic inflammatory disease?

In our lives, many people like sweat steaming, especially after taking a shower. Sweat steaming can open the pores of the whole body. It is very comfortable after sweat steaming. Sweat steaming can also treat many diseases, effectively discharge moisture from the human body, and even kill some bacteria in the body with high temperature. So is sweat steaming good for women with pelvic inflammatory disease? Here is an introduction to it.

Can pelvic inflammatory disease be treated by sweat steaming?

Pelvic inflammatory disease can be treated with sweat steaming, but sweat steaming cannot cure pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease is an inflammatory disease of the female reproductive system and an inflammation of the female body. Although sweat steaming can promote sweating to expel toxins from the body and play a role in health care, it can only be effective for superficial diseases of the body and has no effect on deep diseases of the body. Therefore, sweat steaming has neither benefits nor disadvantages for pelvic inflammatory disease.

The pathogens of pelvic inflammatory disease have two sources, exogenous and endogenous. The two pathogens can exist alone, but usually there is a mixed infection. Exogenous chlamydia or gonorrhea Neisseria infection may cause fallopian tube damage, which may easily lead to endogenous aerobic and anaerobic infection.

1. Endogenous pathogens

The microorganisms that originally reside in the vagina include aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. It may be an infection of only aerobic bacteria or only anaerobic bacteria, but mixed infection of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria is more common. The main aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria are Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic Streptococcus, and Escherichia coli; the anaerobic bacteria are Bacteroides fragilis, Peptococcus, and Peptostreptococcus. The characteristics of anaerobic bacterial infection are easy formation of pelvic abscess, infectious thrombophlebitis, and pus with fecal odor and bubbles.

2. Exogenous pathogens

The main pathogens are sexually transmitted diseases, such as Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Others include mycoplasmas, including Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum.

Treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease

1. General treatment

During the acute phase, patients should rest in bed in a semi-recumbent position, which is conducive to the accumulation of pus in the rectouterine pouch and localize the inflammation. Patients should be given adequate nutrition and water and electrolyte imbalance should be corrected.

2. Drug treatment

Medication principles: Select appropriate antibiotics based on drug sensitivity; combined medication should be sufficient in doses and thorough in treatment; if the infection is severe, use adrenal cortex hormones at the same time. Antibiotic treatment: For mild cases, penicillin can be given intravenously or intramuscularly. For severe cases, broad-spectrum antibiotics can be given by intravenous drip, and metronidazole can be added.

3. Surgical treatment

The method and scope of surgery mainly depend on the patient's age and whether or not he or she wants to have children. Local abscess resection and drainage, or total hysterectomy plus bilateral adnexectomy and drainage are used, but the latter is more effective. During the operation, the abscess is removed as much as possible, or the pus is cleared, and the pelvic cavity is washed with antibiotic dilution to prevent the spread of inflammation.

4. Physical therapy

It can promote local blood circulation, improve tissue nutritional status, enhance metabolism, and facilitate the dissipation of inflammation. Commonly used methods include short wave, ultrashort wave, ultrasound, audio, laser, microwave, ion penetration, etc. Mainly used for chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.

5. Other treatments

Posterior culdotomy and drainage; lateral fornix closure; intrauterine antibiotic injection.