Daily precautions and health care for uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors that occur in the smooth muscle tissue of the uterus. They are mainly composed of smooth muscle and connective tissue. They are generally common in women aged 30-50. The causes of uterine fibroids may be related to genetics, female sex hormones and other reasons. Patients with uterine fibroids do not have any obvious symptoms. Some patients may experience lower abdominal pain, increased leucorrhea, abnormal menstruation, and symptoms such as frequent urination and constipation caused by tumor compression. Uterine fibroids choose appropriate treatment methods according to the patient's age, symptoms, and location of fibroids. The disease of uterine fibroids can be well controlled through good medication or surgical treatment, which can better control the growth of uterine fibroids or remove uterine fibroids. Generally, patients with uterine fibroids have good treatment effects. For patients with fertility needs, timely and regular treatment will retain their original fertility. However, if the patient does not go to the hospital for regular treatment, it will directly affect the patient's quality of life, and complications such as anemia, infection, and acute abdomen will occur. Uterine fibroids still have a certain possibility of malignant transformation. Patients with uterine fibroids need to pay attention to some matters and adhere to health care in daily life to prevent the rapid growth of uterine fibroids. At present, many people still do not know enough about the daily precautions and health care of patients with uterine fibroids. The following is some popular science knowledge about uterine fibroids.

1. Overview of uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors in the female reproductive organs. They are relatively common tumors in the female body and are also called fibroids and uterine fibroids. From another perspective, uterine fibroids are formed by the proliferation of uterine smooth muscle cells, which poses a direct threat to women's health. Women need to pay great attention to uterine fibroids. Go to the hospital for regular physical examinations. If uterine fibroids are found, they need to be treated as soon as possible.

2. The harm of uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroids are more common in women aged 30-50 years old. They can cause certain harm to women's health. Common harms caused by uterine fibroids to women's health include: (1) Anemia: Because uterine fibroids can increase the amount of menstruation in women and prolong the menstrual period, they can have certain effects on women's health over a long period of time, inducing secondary anemia. In severe cases, patients may become pale and weak, which has a great impact on their health. (2) Inducing infertility and miscarriage: The main reason for this is that uterine fibroids can cause deformation of the uterine cavity, and uterine fibroids in the uterine angles can compress the entrance of the fallopian tubes, thereby affecting the implantation of the fertilized egg, which can also induce infertility. Even pregnant women in the later stages may experience miscarriage. (3) Pain: Pain is a relatively common symptom. Most patients will experience lower abdominal distension and backache. Some patients will also experience acute abdominal pain due to uterine fibroid pedicle torsion. (4) Uterine bleeding: Uterine bleeding itself is a relatively common symptom. The most common one is cyclical bleeding, which is clinically manifested as increased menstrual volume and prolonged menstrual period.

3. Daily precautions and health care methods for patients with uterine fibroids

(1) Go to the hospital for regular physical examinations: In daily life, women need to pay more attention to their physical health, especially to observe whether their menstruation is abnormal. If there are abnormalities in menstruation and increased leucorrhea, they need to go to the hospital for a gynecological examination in time. (2) Ensure your own mood: In daily life, you must ensure your own mood. Don't keep all your depression and worries in your heart. Don't be too happy or sad in life. Try to be content. At the same time, you should exercise regularly to improve your immunity. (3) Keep your genitals clean: According to clinical manifestations, bacterial infection can also induce uterine fibroids. In order to fundamentally prevent this phenomenon, women need to clean their genitals regularly and change their underwear frequently. However, it should be noted that it is best not to use sanitary detergents when cleaning the genitals. Try to use warm water or clean water to wash. (4) Prevent extra intake of estrogen: Women should not take estrogen at will, especially after menopause, to prevent the enlargement of uterine fibroids. (5) Prevent miscarriage: miscarriage itself is very harmful to the female body. If the number of miscarriages is too many, the probability of women suffering from uterine fibroids will be relatively high. Therefore, artificial abortion must be prevented. (6) Take good care of menstrual health: As a patient with uterine fibroids, taking good care of menstrual health can effectively alleviate the phenomenon of excessive blood volume in patients with uterine fibroids, and can also effectively reduce the occurrence of complications. Keep warm during menstruation, do not catch cold, eat more hot food, exercise appropriately, and rest more during menstruation. If the menstrual flow is too much, you can eat more foods containing iron to prevent iron deficiency anemia from the root. At the same time, sexual intercourse must be prohibited during menstruation to prevent menstrual infection from causing great harm to the female body. (7) Do a good job of dietary management: ① Do not come into contact with foods with high hormone content, such as beans, some poultry meat, etc. High hormone content is the main cause of the development of uterine fibroids. If you are directly exposed to foods with high hormone content in your diet or environment, it will stimulate the rapid growth of uterine fibroids. Therefore, it is forbidden to eat foods with high hormone content in your life. ② Supplement the vitamin D needed by the body: Vitamin D will appropriately reduce uterine fibroids. In daily life, women can get it from foods with high vitamin D content such as milk and dairy products. ③ Choose liver-protecting foods as much as possible: If a woman's liver is damaged, then estrogen metabolism will be affected, and then uterine fibroids will occur. Therefore, women can eat more protein-containing foods in their daily lives. (8) Strictly control sexual life: Unclean sexual life is a very important factor in suffering from gynecological diseases. At the same time, excessive sexual life will increase the probability of suffering from uterine fibroids accordingly. Therefore, women can appropriately reduce the number of sexual lives in daily life. They should also pay special attention to the sexual hygiene of both men and women, take a bath before and after sex, change underwear every day, pay attention to the hygiene of items, use special items for special purposes, and prevent other gynecological diseases. Patients who have been diagnosed with uterine fibroids need to go to the hospital for regular checkups. If there are signs of enlargement, surgical treatment should be considered.

It can be seen that uterine fibroids themselves cause serious harm to the female body. We must not take it lightly and prevent it from multiple aspects. Female friends also need to maintain good living habits. (Zhao Jing, Hainan Hospital of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army)