Patient's question:
Is there any harm in doing tubal irrigation? Hello, my girlfriend needs to have tubal irrigation, and I want to ask if it is harmful to the body.Doctor's answer:
The hazards of tubal irrigation can be significant. Tubal irrigation is subjective because the entire process relies on manual operation by the doctor, with judgment based entirely on subjective feelings. Different doctors may use different levels of force during the procedure, leading to varying sensations. Additionally, individual differences in patients are also relevant; some patients have larger uteri while others have smaller ones, which naturally affects the volume of medication injected. However, tubal irrigation cannot visualize the size of the uterus.Different patients have varying levels of pain tolerance, so their sensations cannot be used to determine whether the fallopian tubes are unobstructed. As a result, false-negative and false-positive diagnostic results are common. Therefore, using tubal irrigation to assess the patency of the fallopian tubes is unreliable.