“Endometriosis is treated with antibiotics”

“the Us researchers are planning a large clinical study involving women suffering from endometriosis should be treated with antibiotics. Experiments on mice have shown that the painful vävnadsförändringarna go to the back of supported by the nato powers metronidazole.”

“It is in the journal Human Reproduction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, USA, tells of experiments which shows that it is possible to reduce the extent of tissue alterations seen in the disease endometriosis, with the help of antibiotics. Probably, the researchers write, decreases treatment amount of harmful bacteria in the intestinal flora.”

“Endometriosis affects up to one in ten women of childbearing age, which is the equivalent of up to 250 000 women in Sweden. The disease involves cells from the lining of the uterus migrates outside of the uterus, up against the stomach area where they clump up together and in which the surrounding tissue becomes inflamed. The condition can cause severe pain during menstruation, sexual intercourse ochu002Feller at the lavatory. The disease can also lead to infertility.”

“Then the past, you know that young women with increased tendency to suffer of inflammatory bowel disease are at greater risk to also suffer from endometriosis.”

“the Researchers focused on the bacteria that is believed to contribute to these diseases, and then discovered that they also occur in women who suffer from endometriosis to a greater extent than in others. And when they treated mice with endometriosis with metronidazole, a bredspektrumantibiotikum which, among other things, is used in various gastro-intestinal infections, went vävnadsförändringarna back at the same time as the inflammation decreased.”

“the Other antibiotic – ampicillin, neomycin, or vancomycin – did not have the same effect.”

“the team is now planning a larger clinical study in which patients with endometriosis from different centers to include and where they should be treated with metronidazole.”

“the Endometriosis means that the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, where the tissue becomes inflamed.”

“the Symptoms of endometriosis consist of severe pain associated with menstruation. It can also make the pain associated with sexual intercourse ochu002Feller using the toilet.”

“If the woman has such severe pain that regular pain killers don’t work and if she does not work”

“Among the treatments addressed in the updated guidelines from the national Board of health are hormone drugs are mass, painkillers, physiotherapy and other non-pharmacological approaches and surgical measures. New in the guidelines is advice on the supportive calls, and early follow-up after nyinsatt treatment.”

“Source: national Board of health.”