What causes chronic pelvic inflammatory disease?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is divided into acute and chronic. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is relatively stubborn and often takes more time to treat. There are many causes of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, such as inflammation of adjacent tissues and bacterial infection after gynecological surgery. In addition, if you do not pay attention to hygiene during menstruation, it is easy to cause chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Women should do a good job of prevention during pregnancy and after delivery.

1. Spread of inflammation to adjacent organs:

The most common occurrence is when appendicitis and peritonitis occur. Since they are adjacent to the female internal reproductive organs, the inflammation can spread directly and cause female pelvic inflammation. When suffering from chronic cervicitis, the inflammation can also cause pelvic connective tissue inflammation through the lymphatic circulation.

2. Infection after gynecological surgery:

During artificial abortion, IUD insertion or removal, tubal insufflation, salpingography, endometrial polyp removal, or submucosal uterine myoma removal, postoperative infection may occur if disinfection is not strict or there is existing chronic inflammation of the reproductive system. Some patients do not pay attention to personal hygiene after surgery, or do not follow the doctor's orders after surgery and resume sexual life too early, which can also allow bacteria to ascend and cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

3. Not paying attention to hygiene during menstruation:

During menstruation, the endometrium is shed, the blood sinuses in the uterine cavity open, and blood clots are present, which are good conditions for bacterial growth. If you do not pay attention to hygiene during menstruation, use sanitary napkins or toilet paper that do not meet hygiene standards, or have sex, it will provide bacteria with an opportunity for retrograde infection, leading to pelvic inflammatory disease.

4. Postpartum or post-abortion infection:

The patient is weak after childbirth or miscarriage, and the cervical opening has not yet closed well after dilation. At this time, the bacteria in the vagina and cervix may ascend and infect the pelvic cavity.

Regarding the causes of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, there are usually many factors involved. Surgical infection, miscarriage, unhygienic menstruation, etc. may all lead to the occurrence of pelvic inflammatory disease. Here we remind all patients that after understanding the causes of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, they must actively go to a professional tertiary hospital to treat this disease and reduce the risk of the disease to the lowest.