Doctors in China solved the years-old mystery of why one 26-year-old patient was experiencing abdominal pain when they found her IUD in her bladder.
Doctors in China solved the years-old mystery of why one 26-year-old patient was experiencing abdominal pain when they found her IUD in her bladder.
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The patient had the IUD inserted in 2011, but got pregnant months later and gave birth in February of 2012.
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However, an x-ray of the woman’s pelvis finally explained why she had become pregnant despite having taken the preventative measure: the IUD had perforated her uterus and traveled to her bladder, which was causing urinary tract complications.
Doctors found the six-year-old IUD of a 26-year-old woman in her bladder. The red arrow points to the offending device, while the white arrow points to a subsequent IUD she had inserted after the first one proved ineffective. Photo: Dailymail
The woman’s case has been published in the journal Medicine, which states that uterine perforation is among the most hazardous complications that can come with an IUD.
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The report states that this happens to one in every 1,000 women who receive an IUD. But because the condition does not always cause symptoms, this number might be far higher, the report’s authors warn.
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A number of factors can affect whether or not an IUD punctures a woman’s uterus, including the type of device she has inserted when she has it inserted and the way her doctor does the insertion procedure.
But after it pushes through the organ, it can roam to areas of the body far from where it was intended to stay. ‘Once an IUD perforates the uterus, it can move freely into many places, not only in the pelvic cavity but also in the abdominal cavity,’ the report says.
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So In addition to IUD option, other forms of birth control include:
1. Condoms
2. Birth control patches
3. Male sterilization
4. Female sterilization
5. Emergency contraception
6. Birth control pills
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Using a condom is the only birth control option that also protects you from contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: Dailymail
