How can I avoid getting PID?

Knowing that it exists helps. If you decrease your chances of getting sexually transmitted diseases by practicing ’safe sex’, you decrease your chances of having PID.

You should have any suspicious symptom, such as spotting between periods or pain with intercourse, investigated promptly.

Consider having a test for chlamydia and other STDs [...]

Private care. This option involves choosing a particular doctor, usually a specialist obstetrician, or a general practitioner who performs obstetric care. You will see the doctor in his or her consulting rooms for your antenatal visits. The doctor makes arrangements with you to book a place in a hospital for the birth of your baby, [...]

We all know that most lumps and bumps are not serious, but that doesn’t stop us worrying when one appears, especially if it appears ‘below the belt’. It is important to get things checked out, so don’t use this chapter as a substitute for the real thing. Go to the doctor if you find something [...]

Candidiasis, or thrush or moniliasis is a skin infection caused by a yeast (fungus) overgrowth. The yeast which is usually responsible is called Candida albicans, but others may give a similar infection.

Yeast infections may be more likely to occur at certain times, and under particular conditions. The conditions thrush seems to like best are where [...]

For a diagnosis of PMS to be valid certain criteria need to be met. The symptoms should be present only during part of the menstrual cycle, particularly what is known as the ‘luteal phase’, the second half of the cycle, which precedes the bleeding period. The symptoms tend to lessen within a day or two [...]