What causes pelvic inflammatory disease?

What causes pelvic inflammatory disease?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a more common gynecological disease, and the general symptoms are dysmenorrhea, lower abdominal pain, leucorrhea and odor. Once a woman suffers from pelvic inflammatory disease, it is recommended to seek timely treatment, otherwise it is easy to affect reproductive health and cause great harm to the female body. Understand the cause and prevent it as soon as possible.

age

Data show that the high-risk age for pelvic inflammatory disease is 15 to 25 years old. Young women are susceptible to pelvic inflammatory disease, with frequent sexual activity, cervical columnar epithelium ectopia, and poor mechanical defense function of cervical mucus.

Sexual activity

Pelvic inflammatory disease often occurs in sexually active women, especially those who have their first sexual intercourse at a young age, have many sexual partners, have frequent sexual intercourse, or whose sexual partners have sexually transmitted diseases.

Lower genital tract infection

Lower genital tract infections such as gonorrheal Neisseria cervicitis, chlamydial cervicitis, and bacterial vaginosis are associated with the occurrence of pelvic inflammatory disease.

Postoperative infection after intrauterine surgery

Such as curettage, tubal insufflation, hysterosalpingography, hysteroscopy, etc., due to the damage and necrosis of the reproductive tract mucosa, the endogenous pathogens of the lower reproductive tract may increase the infection.

Poor sexual hygiene

Menstrual intercourse, use of unclean menstrual pads, etc. can allow pathogens to invade and cause inflammation. Not paying attention to sexual health and excessive vaginal douching can increase the incidence of pelvic inflammation.

Direct spread of inflammation to adjacent organs

If appendicitis, peritonitis, etc. spread to the pelvic cavity, the pathogen is mainly Escherichia coli.

Another acute attack of pelvic inflammatory disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease causes extensive pelvic adhesions, fallopian tube damage, and decreased fallopian tube defense capabilities, which can easily lead to reinfection and cause acute attacks.