Endometrial hyperplasia - treatment

Endometrium is the mucous membrane that lines the uterus. During the menstrual cycle, it thickens to take a fetal egg. But if fertilization does not occur, the layer of the endometrium is rejected and this process is called menstruation.

Normally, the thickness of the mucous lining the uterus is at most 1.3 cm. If this number is several times increased, then there is endometrial hyperplasia, which requires treatment. Most often, this pathology is observed during menopause, but it can also be in young women of reproductive age.


Symptoms and treatment of endometrial hyperplasia

If a woman develops intermenstrual bleeding, copious menstrual flow that lasts longer than a week, or a sudden onset of hemorrhage during the menopause, all this may be evidence of endometrial hyperplasia, and malignant degeneration of tissues and uterine cancer may occur in 35% of cases without timely treatment.

Preparations for the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia are Yarina, Logest or Zhanin for young women. To endometrium recovered, in the middle of the cycle appoint Utrozhestan, Norkolut, Progesterone, etc. Rigevidone, Marvelon and Regulon are appointed at the end of the menstrual cycle to maintain the desired level of hormones. A month after these drugs, a maintenance dose of Dufaston is prescribed.

Methods of treatment of endometrial hyperplasia

This disease occurs when the level of the estrogen hormone responsible for the thickness of the endometrium exceeds the norm, and progesterone, restraining tissue growth, is on the contrary underestimated. Accordingly, the drug treatment of this problem is hormonal - that is, taking progesterone medications, and basically it's oral contraceptives. Such therapy lasts not less than six months, and in some cases even longer.

But not always the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia does without scraping. The bleeding uterus leads to a large loss of blood, a decrease in the level of hemoglobin and a deterioration in the general condition of women. Therefore, most often in medical practice, first scraping is performed.

This procedure is carried out under general anesthesia, which is administered intravenously. Complete or partial removal of excessively overgrown endometrium may be performed. Modern methods of carrying out this operation allow monitoring of the operation with the help of a hysteroscope inserted into the uterine cavity and taking a part of the endometrium for subsequent histological examination. The procedure takes no more than half an hour and the woman on the same day can already go home.

In some cases, when treatment does not help, ablation with a laser is recommended - the endometrium is removed completely, and recurrence of the disease can no longer occur. The last case, when the risk of uterine cancer is high, it is removed, but this operation is carried out for women who have already had menopause, trying to still save the organ in all ways.

Treatment of endometrial hyperplasia with folk remedies

Do not be mistaken and think that when treating endometrial hyperplasia, you can get by with herbs or other folk remedies. Sometimes such illiterate self-treatment leads to very disastrous results.

Folk remedies are used with great care, in parallel with drug treatment. So, the alcohol solution of the hog queen and the burdock root are used to restore the hormonal background.

Nettle decoction has long been used to stop any bleeding. He will help here, in parallel restoring the mucous inside the uterus. Effective for the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia is the infusion of their cucumber weaves, tincture of the peony and celandine juice.