Can pelvic inflammatory disease be cured by taking Chinese medicine?

Can pelvic inflammatory disease be cured by taking Chinese medicine? Taking Chinese medicine for pelvic inflammatory disease has a certain therapeutic effect. Currently, there are several methods for treating pelvic inflammatory disease:

1. Drug treatment

Antibiotics are the main treatment for acute pelvic inflammatory disease, including intravenous infusion, intramuscular injection or oral administration. Broad-spectrum antibiotics should be used in combination with anti-anaerobic drugs, and attention should be paid to the duration of treatment. It can also be combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment to achieve better results.

2. Surgical treatment

Surgery is recommended for lumps such as hydrosalpinx or tubo-ovarian cysts. Surgery is also recommended for those with small infection foci and repeated inflammation. The principle of surgery is to completely cure the disease and avoid the chance of recurrence of residual lesions. Adnexectomy or salpingectomy should be performed. Ovarian function should be preserved as much as possible for young women. Single therapy for chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is less effective, so comprehensive treatment is appropriate.

3. Physical therapy

The benign stimulation of warmth can promote local blood circulation in the pelvic cavity, improve the nutritional status of tissues, and increase metabolism, so as to facilitate the absorption and disappearance of inflammation. Commonly used methods include short wave, ultrashort wave, ion penetration (various drugs such as penicillin, streptomycin, etc. can be added), wax therapy, etc. There are also methods of Chinese medicine packing for treatment of pelvic ulcers in traditional Chinese medicine.

4. Psychotherapy

General treatment relieves patients' mental concerns, enhances their confidence in treatment, increases nutrition, exercises the body, pays attention to the combination of work and rest, and improves the body's resistance.

What are the examination methods for pelvic inflammatory disease

1. Direct smear of secretions

The samples can be vaginal, cervical secretions, or urethral secretions, or peritoneal fluid (obtained through the posterior fornix, abdominal wall, or through laparoscopy), and direct thin-layer smears are made, which are then dried and stained with methylene blue or Gram. If Gram-negative diplococci are seen in polymorphonuclear leukocytes, it is gonorrhea infection. Because the detection rate of cervical gonorrhea is only 67%, a negative smear cannot exclude the presence of gonorrhea, and a positive smear is specific. Fluorescein monoclonal antibody dye can be used for microscopic examination of Chlamydia trachomatis. Any star-shaped flashing fluorescent dots observed under a fluorescence microscope are positive.

2. Pathogen culture

The specimens are from the same source as above and should be inoculated on Thayer-Martin medium immediately or within 30 seconds and incubated at 35°C for 48 hours for bacterial identification. A new relatively rapid chlamydial enzyme assay has replaced the traditional chlamydia detection method. Chlamydia trachomatis antigen detection can also be performed using mammalian cell culture. This method is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Bacteriological culture can also obtain other aerobic and anaerobic strains and serve as a basis for selecting antibiotics.

3. Posterior fornix puncture

Posterior fornix puncture is one of the most commonly used and valuable diagnostic methods for gynecological acute abdomen. Through puncture, the abdominal contents or uterine rectal fossa contents obtained, such as normal peritoneal fluid, blood (fresh, old, clotted blood, etc.), purulent secretions or pus, can further clarify the diagnosis, and microscopic examination and culture of the punctured material are even more necessary.

4. Ultrasound examination

Mainly B-mode or grayscale ultrasound scanning and filming, this technology has an 85% accuracy in identifying masses or abscesses formed by adhesions of the fallopian tubes, ovaries and intestines. However, mild or moderate pelvic inflammatory disease is difficult to show characteristics in B-mode ultrasound images.