Vaginal or pelvic infections?

Are all vaginal or pelvic infections sexually transmitted? Need a little help here....

Vaginal infections can be acquired through the use of an irritant kind of soap. Vaginal infections can also be acquired through sexual contact and those are STDs (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, etc). Pelvic inflammatory diseases start out as STD that go untreated and affect the pelvis tissues and organs.

This is from the Women's Health website:

Pelvic inflammatory disease is still a frequent cause of infertility. Most of the time this infection starts out as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by gonorrhea or chlamydia infections of the cervix. The infection may be relatively asymptomatic or cause some cervical discharge. If the bacteria ascend into the uterus and Fallopian tubes, the infection causes pain from an accumulation of pus in the tubes. Antibiotics given early may prevent damage, but the body's normal host defense mechanism is to contain the infection in a walled-off abscess. This abscess will eventually resolve one of two ways. Either naturally, or with the help of antibiotics, the abscess cavity becomes sterilized and the fluid eventually becomes cleared and the abscess goes away, or the abscess ruptures and the infection spreads further to possibly cause more abscesses.

For more info go to this link.
http://www.wdxcyber.com/ninfer08.htm

no, they are not all sexually related

No, not all of them. Some are caused by wiping in the wrong direction (always wipe from front to back). Bubble baths are notorious for causing UTI's. And you can catch all kinds of things in hot tubs that are used by more than one person.

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