How to identify uterine prolapse

Women may experience uterine prolapse when giving birth. Uterine prolapse can cause women to experience back pain, menstrual disorders, difficulty urinating, urinary incontinence, etc. Uterine prolapse requires prompt treatment. First of all, let us understand how to check our own uterine prolapse?

How to check for uterine prolapse

Uterine prolapse test 1: Feeling of something falling in the lower body

Check whether you have a feeling of weakness in your pelvis or heaviness in your lower abdomen. More serious patients may feel a bulge in their lower body. It feels similar to the premenstrual period.

Note: Patients with uterine prolapse outside the body need to keep their private parts clean. Reduce the probability of viral and bacterial infection.

Uterine prolapse test 2: pain

See if you have pain in your lower abdomen, lower back, etc. Sexual intercourse feels painful, etc. As the tightness of the prolapsed uterus decreases, the uterus falls outside the body, and the friction and fall cause pain in the lower abdomen of women. Severely ill patients may have difficulty moving. Conditions of anxiety, etc.

Note: When the pain worsens, you should go to the hospital for a thorough examination and treatment, and you cannot take painkillers on your own.

Uterine prolapse test three: urination difficulty

Because there is the bladder in front of the uterus and the duodenum behind it, once the uterus relaxes, it may cause obstruction to urination or defecation. Such as urinary retention and urinary incontinence.

Note: Patients with dysuria need to change their underwear and clean frequently. More serious patients can choose to use sanitary napkins.

Uterine prolapse check 4: Traffic trouble

More serious patients have difficulty walking due to uterine prolapse. In addition, if the uterus prolapses outside the body, it will cause trouble when going out and it is very easy for women to feel inferior.

Note: Patients with uterine prolapse are advised not to go out and to lie down and rest as much as possible.

Uterine prolapse examination five: urethral opening

Take the bladder nephroscopic position, do not urinate, ask the patient to cough, and observe whether there is urine overflow. If so, the operator places the index and middle thumbs on both sides of the urethral opening, press slightly forward, and then ask the patient to cough. If the urine outflow can be controlled, it indicates support urinary incontinence. Then ask the patient to urinate voluntarily. After disinfection and sterilization, insert a urinary catheter to check whether there is urine retention and the amount of urine retained.

Note: During the urethral examination, women should not have too much pressure, restlessness or shyness. If you are worried, you can ask a good friend or relative to wait for you.

Uterine prolapse examination six: vaginal and anal digital examination

If the cervix is ​​not exposed, perform an intravaginal digital examination and accurately measure the distance between the cervix and the vulva in cm. When examining the vagina, you should also pay attention to the approximate width of the distance between the anal contraction muscles on both sides. Level of perineal injury. Rectal examination checks the level of duodenal protrusion and the tension of the external anal sphincter. Use a vaginal speculum to observe whether the vaginal wall and cervix are ulcerated, and whether there is uterine and duodenal hernia. During vaginal examination of women, attention should be paid to the condition of the anal levator muscles on both sides, the width of the anal levator muscle fissure, the position of the cervix, and then the size of the uterus, the position in the pelvis and whether there is inflammation or tumor in the appendages.