What is endometrial tuberculosis?

What is endometrial tuberculosis? Endometrial tuberculosis is a common disease among women. It is an inflammation of the endometrium. This disease is mainly transmitted to people's uterus through lymph and blood type, causing great impact and harm to patients. So, what is endometrial tuberculosis?

Endometrial tuberculosis is mostly caused by secondary infection. If female friends do not pay attention to this disease, it will cause greater harm to the human body. First, it will cause dizziness and fatigue, and then it will cause low fever, loss of appetite for women, lower abdominal distension and pain, and other discomforts. In order to avoid it causing more harm to people, it is recommended that you should seek early treatment after you find that you have endometrial tuberculosis.

As the endometrium sheds periodically, the endometrial tuberculosis lesions are discharged. The lesions are mostly confined to the endometrium. In the early stage, they are scattered millet-like nodules. In very rare severe cases, the lesions invade the myometrium. The uterine body is normal or slightly smaller in size, and there is no abnormality in appearance. When tuberculosis bacteria infect the body, they generally do not cause disease immediately, but go through a period of incubation. During the incubation period, when the body is in a poor resistance, tuberculosis bacteria can invade the endometrium and eventually affect the basal layer of the endometrium, resulting in infrequent menstruation or amenorrhea.

Because endometrial tuberculosis destroys the environment for fertilized eggs to implant and develop, or because fallopian tuberculosis blocks the fallopian tubes, causing infertility, many patients come to the hospital for infertility checks and are eventually diagnosed with endometrial tuberculosis. In severe cases, systemic symptoms such as fatigue, night sweats, low fever, weight loss, and loss of appetite may occur.

The key to this disease is prevention. Among patients with genital tuberculosis, about 20% have a family history of tuberculosis, and more than 50% have had extra-pelvic tuberculosis in the early stages. Therefore, BCG vaccination should be planned during childhood. When there are tuberculosis patients at home, attention should be paid to isolation and treatment. Tuberculosis should be treated in a timely manner to prevent it from spreading to the genitals.