1.Is uterine fibroids serious?
Uterine fibroids are benign diseases with no or few symptoms, which affect the human body lightly and are relatively easy to cure. It mainly leads to irregular menstruation, lower abdominal swelling, back pain, and a few of them can cause infertility or miscarriage, but rarely endanger life.
2.Can fibroids become malignant tumors?
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors of female genitalia, but they can also become malignant. However, the incidence of malignancy is very low, only 0.4% to 0.8%, mostly in post-menopausal patients with pain and bleeding, but if the fibroids increase after menopause, you should be alert to the possibility of malignancy.
3.What are the symptoms of uterine fibroids?
Common symptoms include.
(1) Increased menstruation and prolonged periods: fibroids increase the size of the uterine cavity, increase the area of the endometrium that produces menstruation, and affect the contraction of the uterus, resulting in increased menstruation and prolonged periods.
(2) Increased leucorrhea: the increased area of the endometrium and pelvic congestion leads to increased secretion of leucorrhea.
(3) Frequent urination, urgent urination, abdominal distension, constipation: fibroids grow in different locations and cause different symptoms. For example, large fibroids can press the bladder forward, causing frequent and urgent urination, cervical fibroids can press the urethra causing difficulty in urination, and fibroids in the back wall can press the rectum backward causing lower abdominal cramping and constipation.
(4) Lower abdominal pain: sometimes it can also lead to acute lower abdominal pain.
(5) Lower abdominal mass: When the fibroids gradually increase in size so that the uterus exceeds the pelvis, they can be palpated from the abdomen.
4.How are fibroids usually treated?
Uterine fibroids, regardless of size, do not require treatment if there are no symptoms. However, surgery is required when the following symptoms appear.
(1) Anemia caused by excessive menstruation, and medication is ineffective.
(2) Severe abdominal pain, painful intercourse or chronic abdominal pain.
(3) Large size causing pressure symptoms such as frequent urination, urinary urgency or constipation.
(4) It can be determined that the fibroid is the sole cause of infertility or recurrent miscarriage.
(5) The fibroids show signs of malignant transformation.
5.Can patients with uterine fibroids eat soy products?
Yes. Soy isoflavones, known as “phytoestrogens”, are present in soy products, but the regulation of soy isoflavones on the human body is two-way.
On the one hand, it can slightly compensate for the lack of estrogen when the body’s estrogen level is low; on the other hand, when the body’s estrogen level is high, the combination of soy isoflavones and estrogen receptors restricts the normal combination of estrogen and estrogen receptors in the body to a certain extent, which on the whole reduces the estrogen effect in the body. Therefore, patients with uterine fibroids do not aggravate their condition by eating soy products.
At present, it is believed that patients with uterine fibroids should pay attention to a low-fat diet, and most other foods are not special.