Cervical cancer screening is a way to detect cervical precancerous lesions and cervical cancer early, because cervical and breast cancer is a disease that is highly prevalent in women, and many communities now have projects that provide free breast and cervical cancer screening every year.
Normally, cervical cancer screening, that is, TCT examination, is a very effective way to find cervical cancer, but because it is a free examination, many people do not understand some precautions before examination, resulting in the examination results are inconsistent with the actual situation, missing the best time for early detection of cervical cancer.
These precautions before cervical cancer screening must be known
1. Do not have sex 3 days before screening
Cervical cancer screening needs to scrape the cells in the cervix for testing, and the first 1 to 2 days of sexual life, the cervix will leave semen, which can easily affect the test results, so it is best not to have sex in the 2 to 3 days before doing cervical cancer screening, especially the day before screening must not have sex.
2. Do not flush the vagina and take medication 2 days before screening
Similarly, if you do vaginal irrigation or use some drugs before the test, it will destroy the cells inside the cervix, which will also affect the results of the test.
Therefore, if you are ready to go for cervical cancer screening, you must pay attention to not flushing the vagina for these 2 days, and do not use some vaginal plug drugs.
3. Cervical screening cannot be done if there is gynecological inflammation
If there is recent vaginal inflammation, it must be treated before cervical cancer screening, otherwise the secretions and inflammatory cells in the vagina will interfere with the results of the examination, and the results obtained by the examination will be inaccurate.
4. Screening cannot be done during menstruation
Cervical cancer screening is generally done after a clean menstrual period of one week, which is more suitable. Of course, as long as it is not menstruation, cervical cancer screening can usually be carried out.
However, it must be noted that cervical cancer screening is not appropriate during menstruation, because this will not only affect the test results, but also increase the risk of infection.
A week after cervical cancer screening, these things can not be rushed
Cervical cancer screening because it needs to scrape the cells of the cervix, so the cervix will have some wounds, so it is normal to have some bleeding after examination, but because there are wounds, if not paid attention, it will lead to wound infection, thereby increasing the risk of disease.
Therefore, within a week after doing cervical cancer screening, pay attention not to rush to the same room, not to take a bath prematurely, and not to carry out some intrauterine treatment items, such as pelvic floor muscle treatment, which requires the instrument to be put into the cervix for treatment.
In addition, after doing cervical cancer screening, it is best to pay attention to the diet, try to eat less spicy and irritating foods, avoid hot and humid bets, thereby increasing the chance of gynecological inflammation.
Cervical cancer screening is the most accurate and early method of finding cervical cancer, whether or not they are vaccinated against HPV, women should be screened for cervical cancer once a year after the age of 25, especially after marriage.
Of course, when doing cervical cancer screening, we must keep these precautions in mind, otherwise the test results are inconsistent with the actual situation, which is equivalent to doing it in vain and suffering.
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