How is pelvic inflammatory disease transmitted?

What is the transmission route of pelvic inflammatory disease? As one of the common gynecological diseases, pelvic inflammatory disease is well known to people. The disease can be acute or chronic. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease has a longer course and is more stubborn. It is mostly caused by incomplete treatment of the acute phase. Many people are worried that this disease will be contagious and want to understand its transmission route. Let's take a look at the transmission route of pelvic inflammatory disease.

The first thing I need to tell you is that pelvic inflammatory disease is not contagious. It is mainly caused by bacterial infection and does not fall into the category of infectious diseases. Pelvic inflammatory disease refers to inflammation of the female reproductive organs, connective tissue around the uterus and pelvic peritoneum. It can be seen in postpartum or post-abortion infections, infections after intrauterine surgery, poor menstrual hygiene, etc.

After delivery, the mother is weak, the cervix fails to close in time due to the leakage of lochia, there is a detached surface of the placenta in the uterine cavity, or the birth canal is damaged during delivery, or there are residual placenta and fetal membranes, or if she has sexual intercourse too early after delivery, pathogens invade the uterine cavity, which can easily cause infection and lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.

But in real life, not all women will suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease, only a few will. This is because the female reproductive system has a natural defense function, which can resist the invasion of bacteria under normal circumstances. Only when the body's resistance is reduced or the natural defense function of women is damaged due to other reasons, will pelvic inflammatory disease occur.

If the condition is serious, there may be chills, high fever, headache, loss of appetite. If the disease occurs during menstruation, there may be increased menstrual flow and prolonged menstruation. If pelvic inflammatory disease wraps around to form a pelvic abscess, it may cause local compression symptoms. Compression of the bladder may cause frequent urination, urinary pain, and dysuria; compression of the rectum may cause rectal symptoms such as tenesmus. Further development of acute pelvic inflammatory disease may cause diffuse peritonitis, sepsis, and septic shock, which may be life-threatening in severe cases.

In my country, the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease is very high due to the limitations of personal hygiene and medical conditions, or the lack of awareness of aseptic operation among medical staff during minor gynecological and family planning surgeries, as well as the fact that patients do not pay attention to personal hygiene when intrauterine devices are widely used. With the increasing frequency of foreign exchanges, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in my country is increasing year by year, and the pelvic inflammatory disease caused by this is also increasing.