The accumulation of fluid in the uterine cavity is called the serosimeter. In fact, the serosimeter is not a full-fledged diagnosis, but rather a functional condition, since fluid in the uterus can accumulate in various diseases and as a complication of other diseases. The fluid in the uterine cavity can be inflammatory or serous. Serosometer after delivery is called a lochiometer and is associated with a violation of the outflow of lochia, the accumulation of liquid blood in the uterus of the liquid is called a hematometer. Modern gynecology does not see the diagnosis of the serosometer as a separate disease, as it is a symptom of other diseases.
Serosometer - Causes
Most often, the serosimeter develops in women at the beginning of menopause , when, due to hormonal changes in the body, the permeability of both the vascular wall and the cell membranes of the uterine mucosa is impaired. The regenerative capacity of the endometrium is gradually lost in the absence of menstruation, and the scraping of the uterine cavity during this period can trigger the development of serosomes.
Factors that indirectly contribute to the appearance of serosymmetry are the harmful habits of women (alcohol and smoking), sedentary lifestyle, trauma and surgery on the uterus, promiscuous sex life, monotonous nutrition without enough micronutrients and vitamins, especially fat-soluble. Sometimes hormone replacement therapy, especially with a severe course of menopause, can also cause serosomes.
Serosometer - Symptoms and Diagnosis
Symptoms of serosymes, if there is no inflammatory process in the uterine cavity - is an increase in the uterus in size and periodic aching pain in the lower abdomen. The uterus can grow so much that it deforms the abdominal cavity and is visible even with a simple examination of the abdomen. But not only the serosimeter increases the size of the uterus - it should be carried out differential diagnosis and with growing fibromyoma , and with tumors of the uterus and ovaries, cysts or ovarian cystomas.
Therefore, the diagnosis of serosomes is primarily based on ultrasound - a woman's examination. In the uterine cavity, an anechoic liquid of different volume is clearly visible on ultrasound. Lokhiometer will look the same way, but it appears in women for 2 months after childbirth. To suspect a serosimeter it is possible and on other signs, except for augmentation of a uterus in the sizes:
- pains in the lower abdomen of varying intensity, usually blunt, pulling;
- from time to time there may appear copious, watery discharge of grayish fluid from the vagina;
- difficulty urinating, pain, or frequent urination;
- pain during intercourse with the appearance of liquid secretions after it;
- when joining the infection and the development of purulent inflammation in the uterine cavity possible a sharp increase in temperature to 39-40 degrees, symptoms of intoxication, acute pain in the abdomen.
How to treat a serosimeter?
Treatment of serosymes in the absence of bacterial infection is usually conservative and is aimed at expanding the cervical canal and draining the uterine cavity. But, more often, treatment begins with curettage of the uterine cavity with the removal of fluid and subsequent histological examination of the contents.
Do not take medications on your own or use folk methods,
If the purulent inflammation of the contents of the cavity begins - prescribe antibiotic therapy, drainage of the uterine cavity, detoxification and anti-inflammatory drugs. Treatment serosomes is primarily aimed at treating the disease that caused it, and in the absence of contraindications prescribe drugs that improve trophic mucous uterus: biostimulants, multivitamins, immunocorrectors.