Treatment for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
This article examines the most common medical treatment methods for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, their complications and likely results.
Pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection of the female reproductive tract that originates from an infection following a sexually transmitted disease (STD). In other more rare cases PID can be caused by the introduction of bacteria to the uterus after the insertion of an IUD (intrauterine device) used for birth control.
Treatment for this disorder is usually empiric meaning that treatments are designed resulting from experiments and observation rather than theory. Physicians use antimicrobial agents such as antibiotics that cover N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis and others that may comprise the vaginal flora normally such as G. vaginalis and Haemophilus influenzeae.
The medications that are chosen are usually broad spectrum antibiotics that cover the likely suspects since doing a culture and sensitivity test on the organism may require a D&C. The physician may resort to a culture if the infection doesn?t respond to antibiotics in the expected manner.
Most of the treatment protocols call for oral antibiotics over a lengthy period of time, such as five to seven months. Many women report that their symptoms resolve after only a month or two which increases the risk that they will not be compliant with the antibiotic therapy, stopping it long before the treatment has been completed.
The rest of this article on treatments for PID, visit Pelvic Inflammatory Pain website.
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