What should I do with uterine fibroids? How can I prevent uterine fibroids?

Uterine fibroids are a common gynecological disease. As the name suggests, it is a fibroid that grows in the uterus, which is very harmful to women. How to prevent uterine fibroids? If you accidentally get uterine fibroids, what should you do? Let's take a look at the following introduction!

How to prevent uterine fibroids?

1. Menstrual and postpartum care: Women in particular should pay special attention to emotional comfort and emotional stability during menstruation and after childbirth, try to reduce various competitive pressures in work, study, and life, avoid worries, learn to adjust themselves, keep warm, and strengthen the study of methods to prevent uterine fibroids.

2. Sexual hygiene: Patients should pay attention to controlling sexual intercourse to prevent kidney damage and aggravation of the condition. Pay more attention to sexual hygiene, keep the vulva clean, prevent external evil invasion, internal heat, and blood condensation, which will aggravate the condition.

3. Avoid artificial abortion: Frequent artificial abortions can lead to uterine fibroids, so both husband and wife should actively take contraceptive measures to try to avoid or reduce the number of artificial abortions.

4. Avoid being overweight: The formation of uterine fibroids is related to long-term and high-volume estrogen stimulation. Animal experiments show that high-fat foods promote the production and release of certain hormones, so the incidence of uterine fibroids in obese women is significantly higher than that in women with normal weight. Therefore, developing good eating habits, such as eating regularly and quantitatively, and adhering to a low-fat diet can have a certain inhibitory effect on uterine fibroids.

5. Go to the hospital for regular check-ups: If uterine fibroids are found, they should generally be checked every 3-6 months. If the fibroids are significantly enlarged and bleeding is severe, surgery should be performed.

6. Maintain an optimistic attitude: Happiness is a very important thing. Everyone cannot have smooth sailing. There are pressures and difficulties everywhere, so we must correct our mentality and face life with an optimistic mood. Patients should pay attention to adjusting their emotions in daily life, prevent anger, sadness, and thinking, and should try to be content, cheerful, and open, and avoid overwork.

The above is an introduction to the prevention of uterine fibroids. We must pay more attention to our daily life. If any abnormal symptoms are found, we must go to the hospital for treatment in time.

What about uterine fibroids? Treatment of uterine fibroids

1. Follow-up observation

If the patient has no obvious symptoms, the fibroids are not large (generally the uterus does not exceed 3 months of pregnancy), and there are no symptoms of malignancy, regular follow-up observation can be performed.

2. Drug treatment

The specific medication to be taken depends on the individual's situation.

3. Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment of uterine fibroids includes myomectomy and hysterectomy, which can be performed abdominally, vaginally, or endoscopically (hysteroscopy or laparoscopy). The choice of surgery and surgical method depends on factors such as the patient's age, fertility requirements, size of the fibroid, location of growth, and medical technology conditions.

(1) Myomectomy: The surgery to remove uterine fibroids and preserve the uterus is mainly used for young women under 40 who wish to retain their fertility. It is suitable for patients with large fibroids, heavy menstruation, compression symptoms, infertility caused by fibroids, submucosal fibroids, and rapidly growing fibroids without malignant transformation.

(2) Hysterectomy Hysterectomy is suitable for women with a pregnancy size of more than 2.5 months, obvious symptoms, the possibility of malignant changes in fibroids, and no fertility requirements. Hysterectomy can be performed by total hysterectomy or subtotal hysterectomy. Women of older age, especially those with cervical hypertrophy, fissures or severe erosion, are suitable for total hysterectomy. The possibility of cervical malignancy must be eliminated before surgery.

Warm reminder: As patients with uterine fibroids, we should have confidence in ourselves, communicate with doctors in a timely manner, do not be shy to speak, and let the doctor fully understand your condition, which is conducive to the doctor's diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, we should also pay attention to adjusting our diet, and proper exercise will also help us recover well.