Patient's question:
I heard from a friend that it's easy to get pelvic inflammatory disease in winter. What's the reason for this? What causes it? What should I do if I get pelvic inflammatory disease in winter?Doctor's answer:
Under normal circumstances, the body has a certain resistance to pathogens. Only when the body's resistance increases and the physical condition is poor, can pathogens take advantage and cause pelvic inflammatory disease, such as after childbirth, induced abortion, or insertion of an intrauterine device, during menstruation, excessive fatigue, high stress, and immersion in water or getting cold.Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that patients with yellow, excessive, and viscous leukorrhea belong to the damp-heat type and should avoid fried, greasy, and spicy foods. Those with lower abdominal cold pain, fear of cold, and lower back pain belong to the cold-stagnation type and can be given warm foods such as ginger tea, brown sugar water, and longan meat in their diet.