Myoma of the uterus is called a benign neoplasm in the muscle tissue of this organ. As a rule, it does not exceed 15 mm in diameter, and is therefore called myoma of small uterus.
Signs and symptoms of small uterine myoma
Myoma is a knot that has grown from one cell and is braided by enlarged vessels feeding it. Myoma of small uterus can be single or multiple (a large number of small nodes).
This disease can be manifested by some of these symptoms:
- periodic pain in the lower back and lower abdomen, spotting in the middle of the menstrual cycle ;
- painful and profuse menstruation;
- menstrual cycle disorders ;
- infertility or miscarriages.
If a woman is concerned about the ailments described above, she usually treats these complaints to the doctor, who most often directs her to ultrasound of the reproductive organs. Myoma tissues have a lowered echogenicity, due to what they can be seen on the ultrasound monitor.
However, another option is possible when the patient is not disturbed by any visible or tangible symptoms, and then a small myoma can be detected only during a preventive examination by a gynecologist or an ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs.
The causes of small uterine myoma
The main causes of this disease are the following:
- hereditary predisposition to neoplastic diseases;
- mechanical injuries of the uterus during childbirth, abortion and surgical interventions;
- diseases of the endocrine system, various metabolic disorders;
- hormonal imbalance in the body.
Treatment of uterine myoma in small sizes
Treatment of fibroids, as well as other female diseases, is possible by medicamentous, surgical and folk methods.
- Conservative treatment is used to restore the normal level of female sex hormones, reduce the size of the uterus itself, inhibit the growth of fibroids and thus remove the symptoms of the disease: pain, heavy discharge with monthly, etc. For treatment of myoma, drugs such as norkolut, gestrinone, zoladexia and others.
- Surgical treatment is indicated for rapidly growing tumors, when medicines are not effective. The operation is performed under general anesthesia as a cavity method (through the incision in the abdominal cavity), and laparoscopically (through several relatively small incisions of the anterior abdominal wall). Most often, an operation is performed to remove the uterus itself: this guarantees no relapse and complete cure, but after the operation the patient will no longer be able to have children. The second most popular method is the removal of myomatic nodes, but after such treatment they often appear again. And, finally, the most modern method of operative treatment of myoma is the so-called uterine artery embolization, when the vessels leading to the nodes of myoma contract, after which they can not feed the tumor, and it dries up and gradually disappears. This method is the most effective, but at the same time very expensive.
- Folk remedies are good for small size uterine myoma, which develops very slowly. In the treatment of folk methods use poisonous (hemlock, mistletoe white, swamp saber) and not poisonous plants that act only on the nodes of myoma (boron uterus, common sander), as well as sporis, medina, propolis, known for their medicinal properties.
- Myoma of a small uterus is treated with a diet that is aimed at stabilizing the level of female sex hormones:
- diversity in nutrition;
- restriction in the amount of fat, and with a sedentary lifestyle - and carbohydrates;
- increase in the diet of fruits and vegetables, cottage cheese, legumes, sea fish;
- consumption of wheat germ, bread with bran;
- restriction in the amount of liquid being drunk (for the prevention of swelling of myoma nodes).