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PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE |
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This is a serious infection in and around a woman’s reproductive organs - her uterus,
tubes and ovaries. A woman with PID can have pain in her lower abdomen (below her naval),
fever, nausea, a discharge from her vagina, and it may hurt when she has sex.
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PID can make a woman infertile - unable to have baby now or ever. Or it can spread to other
parts of her body, like her liver. Or she can have a tubal pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg
gets stuck in her tube. This is very dangerous.
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PID is usually caused by an STD. It is important to be tested and treated QUICKLY if you
are a woman who has these symptoms.
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