Is pelvic peritonitis serious for women?

Is pelvic peritonitis serious for women? If women suffer from pelvic peritonitis for a long time, it may cause great harm to the body. After the onset of pelvic peritonitis, patients will experience amenorrhea, which will also affect the couple's life. Once pregnant, it is likely to cause ectopic pregnancy. In addition, it will also cause chronic pelvic pain in women. These are the harms that pelvic peritonitis brings to women.

1. Female amenorrhea

Chronic pelvic peritonitis often manifests as bilateral salpingitis. Over time, it can lead to partial or complete closure of the section of the fallopian tube that receives the egg, thus causing amenorrhea in women.

2. Affecting the couple's life

Pelvic peritonitis recurs frequently and is difficult to cure completely. Patients are prone to negative emotions such as anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., which may lead to sexual indifference, inharmonious marital life, and may also affect the relationship between husband and wife.

3. Cause ectopic pregnancy

Long-term attacks of chronic pelvic peritonitis can lead to adhesion and blockage of the fallopian tubes, narrowing or occlusion of the lumen, making it impossible for the fertilized egg to implant normally in the uterus and causing ectopic pregnancy. According to statistics, the incidence of ectopic pregnancy after pelvic peritonitis is 8-10 times that of normal women.

4. Chronic pelvic pain

Pelvic peritonitis usually starts with an acute attack. About 20% of patients with acute pelvic peritonitis have chronic pelvic pain 4-8 weeks after the attack, which mainly manifests as lower abdominal distension, pain and lumbar pain. When the attack occurs more than 3 times, the chance of developing chronic pelvic pain increases by 67%.

When women suffer from pelvic peritonitis, they have to endure all kinds of pain caused by the disease. However, if the disease lasts for a long time and is not treated, it will also lead to recurrence of other diseases in the female body, affect the normal sexual life of the patient and his or her spouse, and affect the quality of life.