At present, the incidence of female reproductive tract infectious diseases is getting higher and higher, but many women don't know much about this kind of diseases. Professor Liao Qinping, director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the First Hospital of Peking University, was interviewed on this issue during the Women and Children's Month held by Sohu Health.com recently.
Good living habits can avoid gynecological inflammation
Professor Liao Qinping pointed out that female reproductive tract infectious diseases mainly include vulvar and vaginal inflammation, cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease, which are the most common gynecological diseases and can occur in women of all ages.
Generally speaking, the human body has a very perfect natural defense mechanism, which can well resist most pathogenic bacteria. If the local environment of vulva and vagina is disordered, it will lead to reproductive tract infection.
The most common cause is vaginitis when taking antibiotics, which is the result of antibiotics destroying normal vaginal flora; In addition, frequent vaginal irrigation with vaginal irrigation agent may break the balance of vaginal flora and cause infection; Suffering from systemic diseases with reduced immunity, or applying drugs to reduce immunity after organ transplantation, will also affect vaginal local immunity; Both diabetes and pregnancy can affect the vagina, which is also a factor of infection. The new study found that the decrease of local immunity in vagina is also an important cause of the disease.
Many people have a misconception that they should take antibiotics if they have a cold. In fact, many colds will be cured in a week as long as they rest and drink plenty of water. There is no need to take antibiotics. Random use of antibiotics may lead to flora imbalance and mold infection. Infected vaginal discharge such as cheese, vulva itching. Another example is that diabetic patients have poor blood sugar control, and a large number of candida are easily produced in the vagina; The incidence of candida in pregnant women is also relatively high. In addition, when the resistance is relatively low, fatigue, and sexual life is too frequent, candida infection is prone to occur. Candida infection is sometimes related to some living habits. Nurses in hospitals often have candida infections because they take a bath every day. Professor Liao said that underwear must be dried in a dry and ventilated environment.
Women suffering from gynecological infection should go to the hospital for treatment in time and take medication seriously under the guidance of doctors. If you take some anti-inflammatory drugs casually, it may aggravate the stimulation to the vagina. For example, fungal vaginitis is mainly caused by drug abuse. If there is no correct medication, some bacteria will be infected and produce drug resistance. Conventional medication can't kill these bacteria, which will easily lead to repeated infections and treatment will be very difficult.
Healthy women have a natural female reproductive tract defense system, which is formed through long-term evolution. Don't break it easily. Don't rinse your mouth often when you are healthy; Women must protect themselves in sexual life, especially in risky life. Using condoms when necessary can reduce many chances of infection.