Miss Liu is 28 years old, she is slim and beautiful, after getting married for 3 years, the relationship between her and her husband is still very good. But she has a secret that others don't know, she feels extremely pain for several days in every month, this secret really troubles her a lot. Finally her husband persuades her to go to have a check in a hospital and she agrees. She is diagnosed with endometriosis.
What is endometriosis? Dr. Li Xiaoping, the founder of Wuhan Dr. Lee's Clinic, graduated from Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. She said endometriosis means normal endometrial tissue appears in other parts outside of uterine cavity, these tissues grow, cause infiltration and bleeding again and again, also pain, infertility, node, masses etc can be caused by them.
Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease, patients are married women from 25-40 years old and now younger and younger women get the disease. More than half of the patients will have apparent dysmenorrheal, this damage physical and mental health of women greatly and it can lead to infertility.
The pathogenesis of endometriosis is quite complex, and there are many types of endometriosis, for ectopic endometriums spread to different places in pelvic, they can even infect bladder, rectum, nasal mucosa which is far away, lungs etc, so different patients have different symptoms.
Dr. Li Xiaoping said the fundamental goal of containing endometriosis is reducing and eliminating focus, relieve and control pain, cure the disease and increase the rate of pregnancy, prevent and reduce the relapse.
Once a woman is diagnosed with endometriosis, she needs to cooperative with a professional gynecologist and chooses the most suitable treatment according to her age, symptoms and need to get pregnancy. In early stage, a woman can try medical conservative treatment, like take drugs orally or by injection, or put mirena to control the effect of ovary, reduce menstruation and let ectopic endometrium shrink gradually. Also a patient can choose laparoscopy to strip endometrium totally. For patients with very serious symptoms, they have to cut their uterus and bilateral accessory. Now Fuyan Pill as an alternative treatment which is made of Chinese herb medicines is a better choice for conservative treatment if a woman wants to be able to get pregnant in the future, for there will be no wound left.
How to prevent endometriosis in daily life? Women need to know how to adjust their mood, especially during menstruation, they should be optimistic and happy, this can help immune system work well and the internal secretion can be normal. When it is cold, women need to keep warm and prevent from coldness. They should avoid intense sport or heavy physical labour, take effective contraceptives to try their best to reduce artificial abortion or curettage.
