The Symptoms and Signs of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Speaking of pelvic inflammatory disease, I think many women have heard about it. But many people do not know much about its main symptoms. Then, what’s the symptoms and signs of pelvic inflammatory disease? Let’s talk about it in detail.

The experts points out that, the pelvic inflammatory disease can be divided into acute pelvic inflammatory disease and chronic inflammatory disease. The general chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is formed because the acute pelvic inflammatory disease is not treated in time. So if women have the below symptoms, they should go to the hospital in time and receive the treatment.

The symptoms of acute pelvic inflammatory disease

If a woman is infected with acute pelvic inflammatory disease, she would feel the exist of the disease in one to two weeks after getting infected. The expression of pelvic inflammatory disease is hyperpyraxia or chilling, pain in the lower belly, headache or inappetence. When checking, the patients of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease have an acute sickly look, high temperature, faster heat rate, muscular tension in the lower belly, pressing pain, rebound tenderness and a lot of purulence secretion in the vagina. When the abscess is formed, there is lower-abdominal mass and partial pressure stimulation. If the mass is located in the front, patients would have difficult urination, frequent urination, painful urination and so on. If the mass is located in the rear, it can induce diarrhea.

The symptoms of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease

1. Painful in the lower abdomen. The chronic pelvic inflammatory disease patient will always feel pressure in the abdomen. Once the patient overworks or has repeated sexual intercourse, the above symptoms would be more outstanding. Besides, the inflammation and adhesion of pelvic would also strengthen the pain of menstruation accompanied with pressure in the lower abdomen to some degree.

2. Abnormal menstruation. The pelvic inflammatory disease would induce endometriosis and the injury of ovary. So that the woman who is infected with pelvic inflammatory disease would usually appear the increasing of the amount of menstruation, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and so on. If the disease is not treated in time, the endometrium would be damaged to some degree, appearing infrequent menstruation or amenorrhea.

3.The systemic symptoms. Most of the symptoms are not obvious. Sometime there would have low fever or fatigue usually. Among the people who have a longer period of illness, some patients can have the symptoms of neurasthenia, such as doldrums, discomfort of the whole body, sleeplessness and so on. When the patients have a worse resistance, the disease would make a acute or subacute attack to the patients.

4. Infertility. The adhesion or blockage of fallopian tube can induce infertility or ectopic gestation. The rate of infertility after acute pelvic inflammatory disease is 20% to 30%.

The sign of pelvic inflammatory disease: the uterus is alway in the rear. The movement is limited or the uterus is adhesive to a certain place. If the disease is salpingitis, there is wider fallopian tube in one side or both of the side of uterus. And the fallopian tube is like a cord, having slightly pressure pain. If the disease is hydrosalpinx or tubal ovarian cyst, purulent neoplasm can be touched on the one side or both side of the pelvic. And the movement is usually limited. If the disease is pelvic parametritis, there is sheet ncrassation and pressure pain in one or two side of the uterus. The uterosacral ligament become thicker and harder, having pressure pain.