What are the symptoms of teratoma? How to treat ovarian teratoma?

Many women's bellies suddenly become bigger, just like they are pregnant, but they don't know that it is ovarian teratoma that is causing the problem. For women who are preparing for pregnancy, they don't want ovarian teratoma to appear on themselves. What is ovarian teratoma? Ovarian teratoma is a tumor derived from germ cells, mostly appearing in women of childbearing age. In order to detect the presence of ovarian teratoma as early as possible, it is necessary to understand the symptoms of ovarian teratoma. So what are the symptoms of teratoma?

First, the symptoms of early teratoma: When the early tumor is small, there are usually no obvious clinical symptoms. Therefore, people often ignore ovarian teratoma, and only discover it accidentally during daily physical examinations.

Second, symptoms of mid-stage teratoma: When the teratoma becomes medium-sized, people will experience obvious symptoms, such as abdominal distension or a mass in the abdomen. If the ovarian teratoma grows larger and fills the pelvic and abdominal cavities, it will cause compression symptoms, such as frequent urination, constipation, palpitations, etc. In addition, when the patient's condition is serious, the ovarian teratoma will rupture, twist, and bleed, which will cause acute abdominal pain.

Third, the symptoms of advanced teratoma: abdominal distension, abdominal mass, ascites and gastrointestinal symptoms. When ovarian teratoma compresses the nerves, people will experience abdominal pain, back pain or lower limb pain; when ovarian teratoma compresses the pelvic veins, the most obvious symptom in people is severe edema of the lower limbs. Patients with advanced ovarian teratoma often suffer from weight loss and severe anemia.

No matter which stage ovarian teratoma is in, it will bring harm to people's health. So, how should people treat ovarian teratoma?

1. Treatment of ovarian teratoma: surgical resection. If the pathological ovarian teratoma is solid, surgical resection is the preferred treatment method to avoid the benign teratoma from turning into a malignant tumor due to delayed surgery.

2. Methods for treating ovarian teratoma: Traditional Chinese medicine treatment. If the pathological ovarian teratoma is liquid in nature, the best treatment method is conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine.

In summary, women must go to the hospital regularly for gynecological examinations. Timely detection of ovarian teratoma and timely treatment can ensure women's health.