After a few days of giving birth a woman’s body is practically vulnerable to infection-causing bacterial development in the tissues that causes infection in different parts of the body.
Common Types of Postpartum Infection
- Endometritis: An infection caused in the upper genital tract including the endometrium, myometrium, and surrounding tissues that need hospitalization.
- Wound Infection: Occurs after a C-section wound infection is caused by the presence of bacteria around the area of incision with symptoms like redness, fever, lower abdominal pain, etc.
- Perineal infection: Ranging from mild to complicated in a woman’s health-related issues perineal infection affects the perineum.
- Urinary tract infection: UTI is a puerperal infection affecting a woman who underwent both the cesarean section and vagina resulting in extreme discomfort and hospitalization.
- Puerperal mastitis: A regional infection caused by skin flora or oral flora of breastfeeding the child. It affects the breasts and is said to be treated with oral antibiotics.
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