Patient's question:
In recent months, my menstrual cycle has been irregular, and I've also experienced menstrual cramps. There's been a lot of leukorrhea, and it has a strong odor, which is quite unpleasant. The amount of blood flow during my period has also increased significantly. Sometimes, I even have lower back pain. After searching online, I was told it might be ovary inflammation.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 when suffering from acute mumps, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, scarlet fever, etc. The virus or bacteria is more likely to spread through the bloodstream to the ovaries, causing oophoritis.