Patient's question:
After giving birth, I've had vaginal inflammation that hasn't gone away. My regular menstrual cycle, which used to be quite on time, is now irregular. I also have external itching, a bad odor, and abnormal discharge. When I went to the hospital for a check-up, the doctor said I also have tubo-ovarian inflammation.Doctor's answer:
Factors leading to oophoritis generally include environmental factors, low immunity, disease factors, and iatrogenic infections. When a pathogen's infection affects the ovaries, causing inflammatory changes in the ovaries, it is referred to as oophoritis. Oophoritis is caused by the inflammatory changes in the ovaries following infection by pathogens. Under normal circumstances, tubo-ovarian abscess, oophoritis, and pelvic peritonitis often coexist and mutually influence each other, rarely occurring in isolation. Due to the close anatomical relationship between the ovaries and fallopian tubes, oophoritis is mostly secondary to fallopian tube inflammation. The main pathogens include Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Escherichia coli, and others. Simple oophoritis is triggered by infection foci in other parts of the body, especially when suffering from acute mumps, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, scarlet fever, etc. The virus or bacteria can more easily spread to the ovaries through the bloodstream, causing oophoritis.