Women's colds. This is important to know

We don’t like the cold, and there’s a reason: no one likes to carry around warm underpants, woolen tights, tights, fleece pants and other “thermal underwear.” We are overcome by two desires - to be beautiful and healthy. If the first wins, we risk ending up in the hospital: the female body is designed in such a way that it must be especially protected from the cold.

Bacilli + cold = inflammation

Inflammation, commonly called colds, is the most common gynecological problem. This is understandable: our love for thin tights, short skirts and boots with fish fur is ineradicable. As soon as it gets cold outside, queues form outside gynecological offices - female organs are very vulnerable.

Although the impetus for the development of inflammation can be not only hypothermia, but also stress, taking medications, special foods (for example, chocolate or spicy foods), and other diseases that weaken the body.

For patients complaining of a “cold,” the gynecologist prescribes an examination for sexually transmitted infections. And not for every fire emergency: cold only weakens the body, and inflammation is a reaction to an active infection. It often turns out like this: a woman comes to the doctor because she has a cold, and she is diagnosed with an infection that she did not even suspect about. So don’t refuse if your doctor advises you to get tested for STDs.

Perhaps the most serious disease among women's colds is inflammation of the appendages. Thus, the fallopian tubes, which are naturally sterile, react to the presence of microorganisms in their territory. The pattern of disease development is the same: hypothermia weakens natural defenses, and “strangers” take over us - inflammation begins. In the case of appendages, the disease often does not show itself and does not bother the woman. Many people simply do not pay attention to the dull aching pain in the lower abdomen that sometimes appears, attributing it to the fact that “menstruation is coming soon.” They go to the doctor only when menstrual function is disrupted, that is, when the disease is already advanced. In the inflamed appendages (already narrow, only 1–2 mm), adhesions form, which prevents the egg from moving forward and makes fertilization almost or completely impossible. Alas, it is advanced inflammation of the appendages that is considered today the main cause of infertility - in approximately every fifth case, women cannot get pregnant for this reason. This kind of infertility is difficult to treat.

Cystitis comes when you don't expect it

Probably every second adult woman knows what cystitis is. That's the minimum. Scientists believe that from 50 to 90 percent of the planet’s inhabitants have encountered this nasty thing at least once in their lives, and every eighth suffers from chronic cystitis. By comparison, only 1.5 percent of men live with the same problem.

The question of where such injustice comes from should be addressed to nature. She awarded women with a very short urethra (only 3-4 centimeters, in men it is 5-6 times longer), which is also very close to the anus. All this is very convenient for bacteria: in most cases, inflammation of the bladder mucosa (this is cystitis) is caused by intestinal flora. She gets into the urethra during washing, toileting, sex and lives, waiting for an opportunity to go wild. In principle, the female genital organs know how to get rid of “strangers,” but if the defenses are weakened, inflammation may develop.

Cystitis manifests itself in such a way that it immediately becomes clear what you are dealing with. The main symptoms are a burning sensation in the urethra and frequent urge to go to the toilet. Usually we go there 5-6 times a day, but with cystitis we want to go much more often - sometimes up to 50 times. Moreover, this process does not bring relief. When everything burns, cuts and hurts (usually with cystitis there is a nagging pain in the lower abdomen, radiating to the groin), it is impossible to work or live normally.

Doctors categorically advise not to treat cystitis (however