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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) Learning Center

Treatments could include:
If you are diagnosed with milder PID, you will usually be given an antibiotic injection or shot, and then sent home with antibiotic pills to take for up to 2 weeks. You will need to closely follow-up with your health care provider.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 2, 2009
The goals of treatment are to reduce or eliminate the clinical symptoms and abnormal physical findings, to get rid of the microorganisms, and to prevent long term consequences such as infertility and the possibility of ectopic pregnancy. If acute ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Alternative therapy should be complementary to antibiotic therapy. Because of the potentially serious nature of this disease, a patient should first consult an allopathic physician to start antibiotic treatment for infections. Traditional medicine...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
A laparotomy is a large incision made into the abdomen. Exploratory laparotomy is used to visualize and examine the structures inside of the abdominal cavity.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
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