Patient's question:
Recently, I've been experiencing bloating in the lower abdomen, lower back pain, and a feeling of sluggishness between the legs, as if I need to urinate frequently. I'm worried that I might have pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), so I wanted to ask older adults how to deal with and treat PID.Hello, what medication should older adults take for pelvic inflammatory disease?
Doctor's answer:
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is divided into two types: acute PID and chronic PID. Acute PID is primarily treated with antibiotics in combination therapy. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are generally used, such as metronidazole and levofloxacin, or the most sensitive antibiotics can be selected based on drug sensitivity tests for treatment. Chronic PID can be treated with antibiotics and physical therapy, such as shortwave, ultrashortwave, or laser therapy, in combination, or with traditional Chinese medicine. It is important to pay attention to personal hygiene, rinse the external genitalia with warm water daily, change underwear frequently, and maintain cleanliness and dryness of the external genitalia.