Why are females susceptible to pelvic inflammatory disease?

Answer 1

PID is a serious infection that harms a woman's reproductive organs. It develops when an infection spreads up from the vagina and cervix into the fallopian tubes, uterus, and ovaries. It is usually caused by untreated chlamydia or gonorrhea. But it may be caused by other infections.

PID can lead people to get the following diseases:

Untreated pelvic inflammatory disease may cause scar tissue and collections of infected fluid (abscesses) to develop in your fallopian tubes and damage your reproductive organs. Complications may include:

• Ectopic pregnancy. PID is a major cause of tubal (ectopic) pregnancy. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg can't make its way through the fallopian tube to implant in the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies can cause massive, life-threatening bleeding and require emergency surgery.
• Infertility. PID may damage your reproductive organs and cause infertility - the inability to become pregnant after one year of unprotected sex. The more times you've had PID, the greater your risk of infertility. Delaying treatment for PID also dramatically increases your risk of infertility.
• Chronic pelvic pain. Many women with symptomatic pelvic inflammatory disease develop chronic pelvic pain that may last for months or years. Scarring in your fallopian tubes and other pelvic organs can cause pain during intercourse, exercise and ovulation.

"Fuyan pill" is a kind of TCM to cure pelvic inflammation. And this medicine has applied for a patent. "Fuyan pill" has the function to clear away heat and toxic material. Actually, after taking this medicine continuously for three months, different kind of bacteria and tubercle bacillus are killed. At the same time, the mycoplasma and chlamydia will also turn negative in three months. And the stated pathological symptoms will be also improved.

Answer 2

There are multiple pathogens as well as bacteria in the normal vaginal flora that cause PID. Some are sexually transmissible, like gonorrhea and chlamydia. Others are germs that are normally found in the reproductive tract, but can cause problems if they move up to the uterus or beyond.

Health care providers treat pelvic inflammatory disease at the time of diagnosis with the medications most likely to be effective. They test for chlamydia and gonorrhea, as well as other sexually transmissible infections, but they don't wait for culture results to start treatment.

Answer 3

Chlamydia and gonorrhea can cause pelvic inflammatory disease.

Answer 4

Females are susceptible to PID because germs in the vagina can ascend through the uterus to the tubes, ovaries, and pelvic cavity. Males do not have this susceptibility.

Answer 5

Age (young women), race (8 -10 times higher in non-whites), higher in those of low socioeconomic status, no barrier contraceptives, high risk behaviors, frequent sexual practice, STDs.