Patient's question:
These past few months, every time I have my period, I experience a heavy pain in my abdomen, and this sensation disappears once the period is over. There is also a significant amount of discharge in my vagina, which is slightly yellow and has an odor. I went to the hospital, and the doctor said I have adnexitis and also an infection of the ovaries.Doctor's answer:
Factors leading to oophoritis generally include environmental factors, low immunity, disease factors, and iatrogenic infections. When the infection of pathogens affects the ovaries, causing inflammatory changes in the ovaries, it is referred to as oophoritis. Oophoritis is caused by the infection of pathogens leading to inflammatory changes in the ovaries. Under normal circumstances, tubo-ovarian abscess, oophoritis, and pelvic peritonitis often coexist and mutually influence each other, rarely occurring independently. 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 after suffering from acute mumps, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, scarlet fever, etc. The virus or bacteria are more likely to spread through the bloodstream to the ovaries, causing oophoritis.