Endometriosis - treatment

A disease in which cells of the uterine mucosa are found in other tissues and organs, often leading to infertility, is endometriosis, and its treatment depends on its causes, symptoms, severity of manifestations, age, flow characteristics, and also on whether it plans a woman become a mother. Many doctors emphasize the hereditary nature of this disease, as well as the fact that it is always a manifestation of a systemic pathology that has emerged as a result of a violation of hormonal or immune regulation. The methods of treatment of endometriosis range from hormonal and homeopathic to surgical.

Treatment of endometriosis of the uterus with folk remedies

Not completely correct, but often practiced approach in the fight against endometriosis is herbal treatment. It can only be used as an additional method. According to experts, the infusion prepared from the leaves of the medlar is good (1 tablespoon per cup of boiling water), broth of the bovine uterus (it is drunk one hour before a meal) or sabelnik (it is drunk 30 minutes after eating), decoction of the calyx bark (2 table spoon 3 times a day).

Treatment of endometriosis with homeopathy is used with great care, as it can initially cause an aggravation of all chronic problems with a woman's health, after which if the reception of homeopathic remedies is not stopped, a positive effect is possible.

Hormonal drugs for the treatment of endometriosis

With the disease under consideration, almost always doctors prescribe hormonal drugs that temporarily turn out menstrual function by stopping the production of female sex hormones. This allows the disease centers to regress, wherever they turn out to be. The duration of taking such medications, as well as their choice, is always individual. This question should be resolved only by a doctor. Often used such means as Norkolut, Provera, Organometr, Danol, Zoladex. This approach to getting rid of the disease gives a positive result in 4-8 weeks.

Non-hormonal treatment of endometriosis is also possible. It is an auxiliary (to hormonal) and is aimed at restoring the body, preventing adhesions, preventing possible complications. For this, electrophoresis of iodine, zinc, and medicines is used, which affect the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, and liver. Diet and intake of vitamins, as well as soothing, anti-allergic and anesthetic medicines are also shown.

Treatment of chronic endometriosis

The disease under consideration almost always turns into a chronic form, if the correct approach has not been applied to getting rid of its acute form. Medicamentous treatment of endometriosis is a common practice, since it is impossible to eliminate the symptoms of the disease without it. As a rule, antibiotics, vitamins, immunomodulators are prescribed. Often, a course of sedatives, physiotherapy (baths, irrigation, douching, etc.) is prescribed. Oral contraceptives may also be prescribed, after the abolition of which, pregnancy often occurs, leading to complete extinction of the disease due to hormonal shaking during pregnancy.

Treatment of endometriosis surgically

With the nodal form of the disease affecting the body of the uterus, when it is combined with fibroma or endometrioid cysts in the ovaries, surgical methods of cure are used. After such an intervention, hormonal preparations should be prescribed for up to six months. Sometimes hormones are also prescribed before surgery. When surgical intervention is optimal to use laparoscopy, during which foci of the disease can be subjected to electrocoagulation.