Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs located in or around the ovaries, most of which are harmless and resolve themselves without any treatment or care. However, some of them may rupture or burst, causing intense pain and may become life-threatening. Although why they burst is not clearly known to medical science yet, but it is believed that lack of releasing enough luteiniing hormones by the affected female may be one of the causes of such ruptures.
Whatever
might have caused it, a ruptured ovarian cyst needs
immediate treatment by an experienced medical doctor
in a hospital. However, the treatment will greatly
depend on the severity of the condition, the extent of
damage done as also any accompanying
complication.
The
initial care obviously will involve stabilizing the
condition of the patient if the situation is critical in
nature. This includes assessing the airway of the
patient, her breathing and circulation as well as her
blood pressure. And as the first step towards intensive
care, the treatment may include culdocentesis
that determines the type and extent of fluid collected
in the abdominal cavity on account of the
rupture.
The
second step involves administering wide-spectrum
antibiotics to prevent complications as also to repair
the damage done. If the patient does not respond to the
drug within a given period of time, stronger
narrow-spectrum antibiotics may be given in smaller
doses. Drugs that act on anaerobic bacteria and protozoa
may also be applied to control any probable infection.
Treatment also includes cephalosporin
drugs to control gram-positive cocci bacteria
and gram-negative rod
bacteria.
In
the event of the patient being of pre-menopausal age,
knowledgeable medicos often use oral contraceptives in
order to induce an anovulatory state in the patient.
This prevents ovulation for the time being as also helps
reducing stimulation of the ovaries while at the same
time inhibits formation of further cysts and related
risks. This, however, is a temporary procedure that need
not be repeated later.
As
prevention and spread of infection is taken care of, the
next significant step involves managing the pain that
follows a ruptured ovarian cyst. However, discretion
plays a vital part at this stage since analgesic
medications applied to such patients must match the
effects of the stronger antibiotics already
administered. If the pin is severe, potentially strong
barbiturates are recommended while milder pain could be
controlled by codeine derivatives. Some doctors prefer
the use of newer analgesics that have lesser
side-effects.
However,
once the condition of the patient has become stabilized,
investigations may start by way of manually checking the
patient as also by using non-invasive ultrasound. If
unsatisfied, the doctor may ask for laparoscopic or
surgical exploration to diagnose the case, so that
appropriate treatment may follow soon
after.
The
best way to treat ruptured ovarian cyst is
through holistic medications. These medications treat
the body and the mind and approach the body as a whole
and try to remove the fatigue and make the person
healthier and refreshed. Because of this the natural
immunity of the body is also improved and the person can
fight diseases better. As opposed to this, conventional
medicines just treat the symptoms and as a result, what
caused the cyst is never known. Holistic remedies
attempts to find out all the contributing factors of the
cyst and then finds out ways to beat each one of them.
Thus, the holistic approach is more scientific and it
provides better results too.
