Do IUDs Increase Your Risk for PIDs?

CDC guidance for adults now actually is to do triple testing regardless of the endorsement of receptive intercourse. An anal swab might actually be helpful to pick up even vaginal intercourse. Do IUDs increase your risk for PIDs? Do they climb up and get into your reproductive tract? So they don't. The IUD should not alter the course of the illness but it's one of the reasons that every time we do an IUD insertion we do that gonorrhea chlamydia and trick swab.