Pelvic inflammatory disease and intrauterine contraceptive devices

Sexually transmitted infection is the most common cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, but not the only one. Intrauterine contraceptive agent, for example a spiral, introduced into the uterus, can also cause inflammation.
"The risk of pelvic inflammation is especially great in the first three months after the administration of a contraceptive, says Dr. Hitchcock. At this time there are changes in the body, it adapts to the foreign object. Changes the normal environment of the vagina, its protective properties are reduced, and the reproductive system easily infected. However, if an intrauterine device inserted correctly and both partners are monogamous, the risk of ill pelvic inflammatory disease is not increased. "
The inflammation can also be caused by syringing. Studies in San Francisco, found that women who douche three or more times a month, were subjected to at least three times greater risk of ill pelvic inflammatory disease compared with those who douche once a month. The doctors who conducted the study, could not safely be called the reason that douching can make you more vulnerable to pelvic inflammatory disease, but they have a number of assumptions. One possible explanation is that the douching can change the environment of the vagina so that it ceases to be a reliable protection against pathogenic organisms that can cause inflammation. Also put forward the assumption that during the irrigation pathogens from the vagina and cervix into the uterus fall, where he developed an infection.
"In addition, continued Dr. Hitchcock, reproductive organs can be infected by micro-organisms normally present in the vagina and gets into the vagina while taking a bath, if not complied with the rules of hygiene." Although doctors do not know how infectious agents penetrate into these bodies, they suggest that violated the protection from cervical cancer and pathogenic microorganisms have access to the uterus and fallopian tubes. "