Fallopian tube blockage is a major cause of female infertility. Blocked fallopian tubes are unable to let the ovum and the sperm converge, thus making fertilization impossible. Approximately 20% of female infertility can be attributed to tubal causes.

Women with tubal blockage generally have no significant symptoms. It is usually discovered when examining the causes of non-pregnancy. In most cases, women are examined for infertility before they find a tubal blockage. This makes them unable to detect tubal problems by themselves.

How can females detect whether the fallopian tube is blocked?
Ultrasonography. If women did not have contraception and had normal sexual life that was not pregnant for more than one year, or usually felt faint pain on the left or right side of the stomach. In such cases, gynecological ultrasonography can be done to check whether her fallopian tubes have problems . Ultrasonography, although the specific circumstances of each fallopian tube cannot be seen, whether the fallopian tube is obstructedcan by severe hydrops inside can be diagnosed.

Salpingography and Hydrotubation are minimally invasive ways to check for the patency of the fallopian tube. They can accurately determine whether the patient's fallopian tube is unobstructed. If there is a lesion in the fallopian tube, the location and degree of specific blockage of the fallopian tube can be detected by these examination methods.

What should to do if you find that the fallopian tube is blocked? The treatment of tubal occlusion is mainly divided into western medicine treatment and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

Western medicine treatment: depend on the laparoscopic exploration which can directly diagnose the condition inside the fallopian tube. It leads to targeted treatment of the site of tubal occlusion facilitates the operation of surgeons, reduces the risk of surgery, and improves the success rate of surgery.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: patient can be treated through oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the purpose of eliminating inflammation, killing bacteria, clearing heat and promoting blood circulation.