What is pelvic inflammatory disease? What is an ovarian cyst?

Gynecological diseases wantonly destroy women's happy lives and become a demon that they cannot get rid of. For example, pelvic inflammatory disease and ovarian cysts are stubborn gynecological diseases. Although they are benign tumors, they have malignant behaviors. Let us take a look at what pelvic inflammatory disease and ovarian cysts are!

Overview of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease, or pelvic inflammation, refers to inflammation of the female pelvic reproductive organs, connective tissue around the uterus, and pelvic peritoneum.

Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is often caused by incomplete treatment of the acute phase. It has a long duration and is a stubborn disease. Bacteria retrogradely infect the pelvis through the uterus and fallopian tubes.

But in real life, not all women will suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease, only a few will develop it.

This is because the female reproductive system has a natural defense function that can resist bacterial invasion under normal circumstances. Pelvic inflammatory disease will only occur when the body's resistance decreases or the female's natural defense function is destroyed due to other reasons.

The causes of pelvic inflammatory disease are: postpartum or post-abortion infection, infection after intrauterine surgery, poor menstrual hygiene, direct spread of inflammation of adjacent organs, and incomplete and delayed acute treatment as described above.

Overview of Ovarian Cysts

Ovarian cysts are a type of ovarian tumor in a broad sense. They can occur in people of all ages, but are most common in those aged 20 to 50 years. Ovarian tumors are common tumors of the female reproductive system and have various properties and morphologies, namely: unilateral or bilateral, cystic or solid, benign or malignant, among which cystic ones are more common and have a certain proportion of malignant ones.

Causes: 1. Genetic factors According to statistics, 20% to 25% of ovarian tumor patients have a family history.

2. Endocrine factors

The ovaries are important organs for ovulation and secretion of gonadal hormones. Ovarian tumors often occur during the reproductive age. Clinically, the basic pathophysiological change in many patients with ovarian cysts and polycystic ovary syndrome is that the ovaries produce too much androgen, and the excessive production of androgen is the result of the synergistic dysfunction of multiple endocrine systems in the body.

3. Lifestyle factors

Long-term bad diet structure, living habits, and excessive psychological stress can lead to physiological ovarian cysts and true ovarian tumors.

4. Environmental factors

Food contamination, such as plant growth hormones used in vegetables, and hormone ingredients such as clenbuterol in formula feeding of livestock and poultry. In recent years, with the improvement of living standards and changes in eating habits in my country, as well as the abuse of hormone drugs and tonics such as breast augmentation, weight loss, and anti-aging by some young and middle-aged women, the high incidence and younger age of ovarian tumors may also be related.