How to take care of yourself when you have pelvic inflammatory disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease is an issue that women are very concerned about. When patients suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease, it causes serious harm to the body. In life, patients cannot ignore regular treatment and must pay attention to their own body care to avoid serious harm. Below we will make a reasonable introduction on how to care for yourself if you suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease.

How should you take care of yourself when you have pelvic inflammatory disease? This is a question that many women want to know. There are mainly the following points on how to take care of yourself when you have pelvic inflammatory disease.

1. Patients with acute or subacute pelvic inflammatory disease should maintain smooth bowel movements and observe the characteristics of their stools. If pus is seen in the stool or there is a feeling of urgency and heaviness in the abdomen, they should go to the hospital immediately to prevent the pelvic abscess from rupturing the intestinal wall and causing acute peritonitis.

2. Patients with pelvic inflammatory disease should pay attention to diet and nutrition. During the fever period, they should eat light and easily digestible food. Patients with high fever and body fluid damage can be given pear juice, apple juice, watermelon juice, etc., but they should not drink it after icing.

3. Patients with yellow, heavy and thick vaginal discharge are suffering from damp-heat syndrome, and should avoid eating fried, greasy and spicy food. Patients with cold pain in the lower abdomen, fear of cold and back pain are suffering from cold stagnation and qi stagnation, and should be given warm foods such as ginger soup, brown sugar water and cinnamon pulp.

4. If there is vaginal bleeding during menstruation, after abortion, and after gynecological surgery such as IUD insertion and removal, you must refrain from sexual intercourse, swimming, tub baths, and saunas. You must change sanitary napkins frequently. As this will reduce the body's resistance, pathogenic bacteria can easily take advantage of the opportunity to enter and cause infection.

5. Eliminate all routes of infection, keep the perineum clean and dry, wash the vulva with clean water every night, and use a dedicated basin for each person. Do not use your hands to clean the vagina, and do not use hot water, soap, etc. to wash the vulva.