What is pelvic inflammatory disease?
Pelvic inflammatory disease (called PID for short) only happens to women. It means you have an infection in your reproductive organs. These organs include your uterus, your ovaries, your fallopian tubes (which carry the eggs from your ovaries to your uterus) and surrounding parts of your pelvis. PID can cause fertility problems and make it hard for you to get pregnant. Although PID is quite common, it’s not always easy to tell whether you have it. This is because the symptoms you get at the time can be mild. Or you may not feel ill at all. But if you have PID you will need to be treated quickly with antibiotics. If you’re not treated quickly, your reproductive organs may get damaged. This can cause serious problems. PID is almost always caused by an infection that you get from having sex (a sexually transmitted infection).
Pelvic inflammatory disease, or “PID” is an infection of a woman’s pelvic organs which include the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. Bacteria causes pelvic inflammatory disease. Bacteria can move upward, from a woman’s vagina or cervix – which is the opening to the uterus, or womb – into her fallopian tubes, ovaries and uterus, which then cause an infection. Many types of bacteria can cause pelvic inflammatory disease. But bacteria found in two common sexually transmitted diseases – chlamydia and gonorrhea – are the most frequent causes of pelvic inflammatory disease. After a woman becomes infected, it can take from a few days to a few months to develop pelvic inflammatory disease. The major symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease are lower abdominal pain and abnormal vaginal discharge. Other symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease may include one or more of the following; fever, pain in the right upper abdomen, pain during vaginal intercourse, and irregular menstrual bleeding. Pel
