Women's Health Channel - Home

Choose from the following women's health topics:

Abortion
AIDS HIV
Bereavement
Birth Control
Body Contouring
Breast Cancer
Breast Care
Breast Enhancement
Breast Feeding
Care Giving
Care in Community
Child Birth
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Health Problems
Chronic Pelvic Pain
Colorectal Cancer
Cystitis
Diversity in Women's Health
Eating Disorders and Body Image
Endometriosis
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Food Safety Article
Gastrointestinal Problems
Global Warming
Gonorrhea
Health Care Professionals
Hysterectomy
Hysteria
Immigration Health
International Women Health
Mental Health
Menstrual Cycle Problems
Menstruation
Mind Body Therapies
Miscarriage
Morning Sickness
Multiple Sclerosis
Northen Women
Nutrition and Exercise
Osteroporsis
Ovarian Cancer
Pregnancy Arthritis
Pelvic and Gynecological Health
Physical Change in Girl
Post Traumatic Stress
Pregnant Women
Premenstrual Syndrome
Prenatal Care
Quality Health Care
Resources
Respiratory Health
Sexual Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Syphilis
Sexual Dysfunction
Substance Abuse
Teen Pregnancy
Travel Concern for Women
Urinary and other Bladder Problem
Vaginal Dryness
Varicose Veins
Women Health Issue
Women Infertility
Women Exercise

Pelvic and Gynecological Health: Pelvic Pain, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Symptom, Pelvic Pain Pregnancy, Gynecological Issue, Gynecological Symptom, Gynecological Disease

Foreword

Pelvic and gynecological health is very vital for all women. Pelvic and gynecological related diseases may affect a woman’s health severely and create complicated problems in every aspect.

Pelvic inflammatory disease is caused by bacterial infection. It occurs due to same type of bacteria, which is the cause for various sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Cause

In many cases pelvic inflammation disease develops from the bacteria, which travels through the female genital and the cervix. The uterus, the fallopian tube and the ovary are badly affected by the pelvic disease. It causes pelvic pain and there is chance of defective pregnancy.
If it is not treated in right time then there are possibilities of infertility or miscarriage.

Patient profile

Pelvic problem occur to woman of any age. Women of 20 to 31, those are mature and sexually active have greater risk of having pelvic disease through sexually transmitted germs and bacteria. The most noticing symptom of pelvic inflammatory disease is tenderness and pain in the lower region.
About one million women, (most of them are teenagers) experience acute Pelvic Inflammatory disease each year.

Symptoms

The affected women may have pelvic pain. There will be increase in foul – smelling discharge from female genital. There may be chill and fever causing very uncomfortable. Patient may vomit and feel nausea. Patient may have pain during the sexual activity. These symptoms may be very mild and negligible and these conditions may not be diagnosed. Sometime affected women may have different experiences, feelings and symptoms, it varies from one individual to other.

The Pelvic area has the following organs which are likely place for cancer occurrence

  • endometrium, the lining of the uterus
  • ovaries : the two female reproductive
  • Vagina is the passageway for menstrual fluid
  • Vulva that is the external portion of the female genital organs
  • Cervix, the lower narrow part of the uterus joining the bladder and the rectum

Identification

 To identify the Pelvic inflammatory disease, one goes different kinds of test and methods.  Certain observation and tests are done such as microscopic test of samples from cervix and female genital, pathological test, blood test, ultra sound, laparoscope’s test and many others if required.

Types of diseases

AIDS is one of the most deadly and dreadful diseases, but sexually transmitted diseases are also very harmful and dangerous diseases. Pelvic inflammatory disease is also one of these serious diseases among women.
Endometriosis is also one of the three main causes of female infertility. Chlamydia is also a bacterial infection also caused by careless and unsafe sexual activities, this disease also cause some serious problem in women’s pelvic and gynecological health. Endometrium cancer is the most common cancer of the female sexual system or reproductive system. If it is detected in early stage then there is a positive chance of cure.
Vaginal cancer is very rare and accounts for 3 % of total cancer incidences. The most common is the ovarian cancer in the female reproductive system. Though cervical cancer has declined, still noninvasive cancer is four times more common than the invasive type.

Treatment

 For the treatment of Pelvic inflammatory disease oral antibiotics medicines are prescribed. If a patient is most severely affected by the disease then hospitalization is needful with proper medication and observation.
Sometime surgery is necessary to be done with long medication to cure the disease.
Gynecological health should be maintained by consciousness and awareness. In fact a woman gets bacterial infection sometime or in her lifetime.

A word of caution

A woman is far more exposed than a man in terms of her reproductive system. When she is not with bargaining capacity in sex, she is likely to suffer with some of the above diseases.  The most sophisticated of minds also treat the female body as an object rather than an embodiment of  a sensitive personality.
For this reason, she needs to keep a watch on her body no matter how compelling the circumstances may be.

What others have contributed to this page?

No contribution yet. Be the first one to send your contribution for this page. Use the form below.

Would you like to contribute anything to this page? We value your input. Your tips/comments are very much appreciated.
Name:*
Comments:*

Send Page to a Friend

Subsribe to our newsletter and stay tuned with ultimate-cosmetics.com.

 

Reader's Favorite Tip
Put ice in a cloth. Slightly damp the end of the cloth with water. Sprinkle salt on the cloth and it instantly makes the swelling of the pimple go down! - Submitted by nana

Like to share your FAVORITE BEAUTY TIP with us?
My NickName:
My FAVORITE Beauty Tip:

Resources


Articles
 

© 2003-2004, ultimate-cosmetics.com. All rights reserved.