Can you have sex if you have adnexitis? Get timely treatment and avoid sex

Adnexitis can be acute or chronic. Patients will experience increased vaginal discharge, fever, and irregular menstruation. Patients with adnexitis cannot have sexual intercourse, otherwise it will aggravate the condition and cause infection. In severe cases, it may lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.

1. Can you have sex if you have adnexitis? Acute adnexitis is characterized by lower abdominal pain and fever, the severity of which varies depending on the severity of the inflammation. Some patients experience chills, headache, loss of appetite, increased vaginal discharge, etc. before high fever. When acute adnexitis occurs, having sexual intercourse may cause the inflammation to spread and deepen. Reduce the number of sexual intercourses, reduce pathogens, and the inflammation will heal faster. Therefore, experts recommend that it is best not to have sex to avoid the transfer and spread of inflammation. Moreover, after having sex, cross-infection of inflammation may occur between partners. Therefore, patients with adnexitis are advised to actively treat the adnexitis.

2. Having sex during the illness will increase the harm of adnexitis. In severe cases, it may cause the following three situations in female patients.

1) Inharmonious sexual life: Patients with adnexitis may experience pain and spotting during sexual intercourse, which seriously affects the quality of their sexual life.

2) Cause infertility: After sexual intercourse, the condition will worsen. If chronic salpingitis is not cured for a long time, it can cause adhesion of the mucosa in the fallopian tube and block the fallopian tube. When the fimbria of the fallopian tube adheres due to inflammation, hydrosalpinx may occur, leading to secondary infertility.

3) Leading to ectopic pregnancy: Adnexitis causes chronic salpingitis. If chronic salpingitis causes incomplete blockage of the fallopian tube lumen, it is very likely to increase the chance of ectopic pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy).

3. Treatment of adnexitis:

1. Surgical treatment

Larger hydrosalpinx or tubo-ovarian cysts caused by inflammation can be treated surgically. For those who are infertile due to fallopian tube obstruction, fallopian tube repair surgery can be performed.

For chronic salpingo-oophoritis and pelvic peritonitis with repeated acute attacks, when drug treatment is not effective, the patient is in great pain, and the patient is older, surgical treatment may also be considered.

2. Physical therapy

The benign stimulation of warmth can promote pelvic blood circulation, improve the nutritional status of local tissues, and facilitate the absorption and disappearance of inflammation. Commonly used physical therapies include short wave, ultrashort wave, infrared, audio, ion penetration, etc. However, do not use physical therapy if the body temperature exceeds 37.5℃ or if you have genital tuberculosis.

The above is the introduction to "Can you have sex if you have adnexitis?" We would like to remind all patients with adnexitis that you must pay attention to the harm of adnexitis caused by sex, and do not let temporary pleasure lead to serious consequences, which will not be worth the loss.