Puerperal disease

Section "Sexual and reproductive health".

Puerperal disease

Diseases that affect women during childbirth or lactation are called postpartum. They develop during pregnancy, directly during childbirth, and less often - within one year after it. They belong to the class of obstetric pathologies and account for 35% of all diseases that occur in pregnant women. During the perinatal period, 44 cases out of every thousand women develop in one year, and every twentieth among newborns. Approximately half of all children born are born physically weak, and small children who die are born four times a year. Postpartum pathology accounts for 20% of all deaths of pregnant and postpartum women, and up to 30% of occupational health disorders. With timely treatment, it leaves 75–90% of patients functional. For more than half of these women, pregnancy can lead to infertility and complications during the next pregnancy. Diseases that arise during the first birth, differing in the variety of factors that cause them, cannot be completely cured. They often lead to secondary subinvolution of the uterus, sepsis, mental development disorders of the born child, and the development of chronic or vaginal diseases as a result of untimely treatment. Women suffer from inadequate pain syndrome and deficiency of immune defense after childbirth. Intrauterine pathological conditions are diagnosed 1.5 times more often in multiparous women. Cause