What Is PID?
9. What Are the Risk Factors for Developing PID?
Certain behaviors increase your risk of developing PID during your lifetime. Having multiple sexual partners or having one partner who has multiple sexual partners increases your risk of sexually transmitted infections as well as PID. Modifying your sexual behavior can reduce your risk of developing PID. Using a condom with every sexual encounter and only engaging in sexual activity with one partner both lower the risk.
While abstinence greatly reduces the risk of PID, those who are not sexually active can still develop PID by douching or through the use of an IUD. PID from IUD insertion is not commonplace. It is important to not douche and to follow up with your gynecologist within the first few weeks of an IUD insertion to look for signs of infection. Also, if you have had PID once, you are more likely to develop it again.
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