Health, Nutrition & Fitness: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

It is an inflammation of the Fallopian Tubes, ovaries and Uterus. The disease can be acute or chronic.? Acute PID causes severe abdominal pains, high fever , chills, foul-smelling vaginal discharge and abdominal tenderness. PID is a result of bacterial infection, but chlamydia and Gonorrhoea are responsible for mini cases. Treatment is by means of antibiotics and bed rest. The condition usually improve within two weeks. But if not, another antibiotics is given.?If 3 courses of antibiotics do not clear?the infection, then the disease is deemed to have become chronic, Chronic PID results in a low level of infection that can continue for weeks or months.

Symptoms are persistent? abdominal pain or cramps, fatigue, weakness and very heavy menstrual periods. Some mild cases have few? or no symptoms but can cause partial or total infertility.

Source: http://healthfeeding.blogspot.com/2011/05/pelvic-inflammatory-disease-pid.html

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