Does pelvic inflammatory disease affect menstruation?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is very harmful and can cause menstrual abnormalities in women. For example, it often causes an increase in menstrual volume, or a decrease in menstrual volume, or even leads to amenorrhea. In addition to affecting menstruation, it can also easily lead to infertility in women, and cause symptoms such as pain and fever. Therefore, if you have pelvic inflammatory disease, you must pay attention to treatment. For ordinary women, you must do a good job of prevention.

If there is vaginal bleeding during menstruation, after abortion, and after gynecological surgery such as insertion or removal of an IUD, you must refrain from sexual intercourse, swimming, taking a tub bath, or a sauna. You must change sanitary napkins frequently. This will reduce the body's resistance and make it easy for pathogens to enter and cause infection.

Patients diagnosed with acute or subacute pelvic inflammatory disease must follow the doctor's instructions and actively cooperate with treatment. The patient should rest in bed or take a semi-recumbent position to facilitate localization of inflammation and discharge of secretions. Patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease should not overwork, and should combine work and rest, and exercise in moderation to avoid worsening of symptoms.

Fever patients usually sweat a lot when the fever subsides. They should pay attention to keeping warm and dry, change clothes when sweating, and avoid using air conditioning or direct convection wind.

Pay attention to the amount, quality, color and taste of leucorrhea. If the amount of leucorrhea is large, the color is yellow and thick, and it has a foul odor, it means that the condition is serious. If the leucorrhea changes from yellow to white (or light yellow), the amount changes from large to small, and the taste tends to be normal (slightly sour), it means that the condition has improved.

Patients with acute or subacute pelvic inflammatory disease should keep their bowel movements regular and observe the nature of their stools. If you see pus in your stool or feel a sense of urgency and heaviness in your abdomen, you should go to the hospital immediately to prevent pelvic abscess from rupturing the intestinal wall and causing acute peritonitis.

Some patients. Because of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, if you feel a little uncomfortable, you take antibiotics on your own. Long-term use may cause disturbance of vaginal flora, which may increase vaginal secretions and present as white bean curd-like leucorrhea. At this time, you should go to the hospital immediately to rule out candidal vaginitis.

Patients with pelvic inflammatory disease should pay attention to diet 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 it should not be iced. Patients with yellow, heavy and thick leucorrhea have damp-heat syndrome and should avoid fried, greasy and spicy foods. Patients with cold pain in the lower abdomen, fear of cold, and low back pain belong to the cold stagnation and qi stagnation type. They can be given warm foods such as ginger soup, brown sugar water, and cinnamon pulp. People who suffer from restlessness, heat and lower back pain mostly suffer from kidney yin deficiency. They can eat meat, eggs and other blood and living things to nourish and strengthen the body.