Patient's question:
I am a 68-year-old woman who has been feeling quite tired lately. I have a feeling that something is not healthy with my body. Could it be this disease? Please ask: How is pelvic inflammatory disease caused?Doctor's answer:
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a group of infectious diseases, so it must first have a pathogen. So, under what circumstances can the pathogen cause damage to us? This situation should be when our body's natural protective functions are compromised, allowing external bacteria to infiltrate and overwhelm our defenses. After infiltration, it leads to an infectious disease. It can also bring about infectious diseases. For example, like diarrhea, if the intestines have both normal, good bacteria and bad bacteria, but the resistance weakens, the bad bacteria multiply, which then triggers an inflammatory response.