What should you pay attention to when checking for pelvic inflammatory disease?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common gynecological inflammation. Because it recurs and is relatively stubborn, you must be very careful when checking for pelvic inflammatory disease. After recovery, you must do regular checks to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease from recurring and causing you to feel pain again. So what should you pay attention to when checking for pelvic inflammatory disease?

What should I pay attention to during pelvic inflammatory disease examination?

The examination methods for pelvic inflammatory disease mainly include ultrasound examination, radioisotope scanning, computed tomography (CT), etc. Since the pelvic abscess is large, low-lying and can be touched with a sense of fluctuation, its diagnosis is generally not difficult. If necessary, puncture and aspiration can be used. If the pus is sucked out, the diagnosis can be established.

During the examination, it is important to take bacterial smears and cultures of the secretions obtained from cervical os, posterior fornix puncture or laparoscopy, and to perform drug sensitivity tests in order to more accurately understand the pathogens that cause the disease and take targeted measures.

Because the presence of pelvic inflammatory disease cannot necessarily be confirmed based on medical history symptoms and signs alone, when inquiring about the medical history, attention should be paid to whether the patient has an intrauterine contraceptive device, and to understand her sexual history, whether she has frequent or promiscuous intercourse. If possible, routine ultrasound examinations should be performed to determine whether there are any masses in the pelvic cavity.