What are the common treatments for pelvic peritonitis?

Everyone should be familiar with pelvic peritonitis. In our daily life, there are many patients with pelvic peritonitis. So do you know what pelvic peritonitis is? This disease endangers our physical health and life. The following will introduce you to the treatment methods of pelvic peritonitis in detail.

1. Non-surgical treatment methods

① Body position: When there is no shock, the patient should take a semi-recumbent position, move the lower limbs frequently, and change the pressure points to prevent venous thrombosis and bedsores.

②Fasting: Patients with gastrointestinal perforation must absolutely fast to reduce continued leakage of gastrointestinal contents.

③ Gastrointestinal decompression: It can reduce gastrointestinal distension and improve gastrointestinal wall blood circulation. It is an indispensable treatment for patients with pelvic peritonitis.

④ Intravenous infusion: Patients with pelvic peritonitis who are fasting must receive infusion to correct water electrolyte and acid-base imbalance.

⑤Supplement calories and nutrition: Acute pelvic peritonitis requires a large amount of calories and nutrition to supplement its needs.

⑥Application of antibiotics: A large amount of broad-spectrum antibiotics should be used in the early stage, and then adjusted according to the results of bacterial culture. Intravenous drip is the best route of administration.

⑦ Analgesia: For patients whose diagnosis has been clear and treatment methods have been decided, it is necessary to appropriately use sedatives and analgesics to relieve the patient's pain.

(II) Surgical treatment

① Lesion treatment: Eliminating the cause of pelvic peritonitis is the main purpose of surgical treatment.

② Clean the abdominal cavity: After eliminating the cause of the disease, the pus in the abdominal cavity should be sucked out as much as possible, and the food and residue, feces, foreign objects, etc. in the abdominal cavity should be removed.

③Drainage: so that the remaining inflammation can be controlled, limited and disappear.