What causes pelvic peritonitis?

Many female friends like to use sanitary pads, thinking that it is cleaner and more hygienic. In fact, doing so is likely to bring us a series of gynecological diseases. Pelvic peritonitis is one of the common diseases in women, which can be divided into acute pelvic peritonitis and chronic pelvic peritonitis. Suffering from pelvic peritonitis will cause great harm to women, and in severe cases, it will affect women's fertility. So, what are the main causes of pelvic peritonitis? Let the gynecological experts introduce it below.

1. Postpartum or post-abortion infection

After delivery, the mother is weak, the cervix fails to close in time due to the outflow of residual blood and turbid fluid, there is a placental detachment surface 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 take advantage of the opportunity to invade the uterine cavity and easily cause infection; vaginal bleeding lasts too long during spontaneous abortion or medical abortion, or there is tissue residue in the uterine cavity, or the aseptic operation of the artificial abortion operation is not strict, etc., all of which can cause post-abortion infection.

2. Infection after intrauterine surgery

Such as placement or removal of intrauterine contraceptive device, curettage, tubal insufflation, hysterosalpingography, hysteroscopy, submucosal myomectomy, etc., due to preoperative sexual life or lax surgical disinfection or inappropriate selection of preoperative indications, the original chronic inflammation of the reproductive tract may be disturbed by the surgery and cause acute attack and spread; some patients do not pay attention to personal hygiene after surgery, or do not follow the doctor's orders after surgery, which can also cause bacterial ascending infection and cause pelvic peritonitis.

3. Poor menstrual hygiene

If you do not pay attention to menstrual hygiene, use unclean sanitary napkins and panty liners, take a bath during menstruation, have sexual intercourse during menstruation, etc., pathogens may invade and cause inflammation.

4. Direct spread of inflammation in adjacent organs

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

Sanitary pads will make our vulva airtight, and such an environment is most likely to breed bacteria. So for the sake of our health, don't use sanitary pads anymore. The above is an introduction to the main causes of pelvic peritonitis. If you still have questions about pelvic peritonitis, click on the online consultation directly, and the experts will answer your questions in detail.