How to Prevent Acute Episodes of Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease(PID)?

Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease(PID) is mostly caused by incomplete or untimely treatment of acute inflammation. When acute PID turns into chronic inflammation, it can lead to Cicatricial adhesion and pelvic congestion, which can cause lower abdominal swelling, pain and lumbosacral pain.

There are acute and chronic pelvic inflammatory diseases. Relatively speaking, the symptoms of chronic PID are not as obvious as acute PID, but if you ignore treatment and control, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease can also cause acute attacks.

During an acute attack of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, you may experience lower abdominal pain, increased vaginal discharge, fever, and in severe cases, nausea and vomiting.

Pain in the lower abdomen

Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is a gynecological disease with a long course. If the onset of the disease does not get timely and effective treatment, it may bring about repeated attacks of inflammation, leading to lower abdominal pain.

Increased vaginal secretion

Because the inflammation stimulates the local area, it may lead to increased vaginal discharge, vaginal discharge odor, vaginal itching, and other symptoms.

Fever

If the patient's condition is more serious, there may be a generalized fever, affecting normal work and life.

In addition, symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting may also occur.

Patients can be actively treated through physical and drug therapies to avoid worsening inflammation. Physiotherapy often includes short-wave, ultra-short-wave, microwave, laser, etc. By means of these physiotherapy modalities, its warmth can promote the local blood circulation in the pelvis, thus improving the nutritional state of tissues and metabolism, which is beneficial to the absorption and subsidence of inflammation.

For medication, you can take antibiotic drugs under the doctor's guidance for treatment. You can also choose the traditional Chinese medicine Fuyan pill, which is powerful bactericidal and can kill a variety of bacteria as well as viruses. At the same time, it has the effect of clearing away heat and removing toxins, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, invigorating the spleen and inducing diuresis, which can treat inflammation of the pelvic cavity very well and relieve the pain of the women.

So, how do women prevent acute attacks of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease in their daily lives?

Strengthen the body. Usually, pay attention to increasing nutrition, exercise, better improve the body's immunity, and at the same time maintain a relaxed mood, mediate qi and blood.

Pay attention to sexual hygiene and cleanliness. According to the epidemiological survey, many patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are closely related to unclean husband and wife life. 

If you have chronic pelvic inflammatory disease at an early stage and are not aware of it, and you continue to maintain unhygienic sexual behavior, then some germs will take this opportunity to continue to affect the reproductive tract.

At first, only the lower genital tract is affected. But with the invasion of germs, the upper genital tract will also be infected, eventually migrating to the pelvis and inducing chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, do not take unclean married life lightly.

Avoid fatigue. Do not swim and participate in heavy physical activities before and after menstruation; No sex, no alcohol.

Do regular reviews. Regular review is to observe the development of the disease dynamics at any time, especially for patients suspected of having signs of pelvic inflammatory disease aggravation, who can have a more in-depth understanding of the lesions to facilitate a more comprehensive individualized treatment.

Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease acute attack symptoms will be relatively more obvious, which can greatly impact the patient, so it is recommended that chronic PID should be prevented and treated promptly to avoid greater health hazards. In particular, a chronic pelvic inflammatory disease course is too long is likely to lead to female infertility. Therefore, patients must pay attention to prevention, especially the recurrence of acute episodes.

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